Essays and fiction on human cognition, rationality, and social dynamics. Previous work findable at: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/deactivated-duncan-sabien https://medium.com/@ThingMaker https://archiveofourown.org/users/WhatWouldEnderDo/works
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Short rant about the old books/AI thing
I’m really bothered by the moralistic discourse around the destructive scanning of old books. It feels like people are intentionally trying to make the conversation dumber, and with stuff like the known issue of Russian outrage bots, that m...
Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things
I hate every graph I found on Google for “activation energy” so our thumbnail for this essay is just gonna be
Heat some paper to 300ºF (150ºC) and mostly what happens is you have some hot paper.
Heat some paper to 500ºF (260ºC) and what y...
Asking Nicely
You encounter a fourteen-year-old kid who seems troubled. Disturbed, even.
It’s sort of subtle. Most of the time, he behaves well. He does his chores, turns in his schoolwork, interacts normally with friends and grownups. But every once in...
Single Answers Make You Stupid
Many of the people reading these essays will already be familiar with the story of hero rationalist Lt. Gilbert S. Daniels, so I’ll recount it very briefly:
1920s: Air Force needs to figure out how big a cockpit should be, when building ai...
Trust and partnership
Author’s note: stuff has been very rough. (As a vague gesture in the direction of the type and magnitude of “very rough”: I am unable to follow through on DunConII, the sequel to DunCon, which I had been planning for ~a year and which was o...
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