Putanumonit

The bell-curve meme of the importance of exclusivity in relationships. putanumonit.com/2022/04/13/mid…

I've started a series of shorter posts, aiming for the middle ground between Twitter threads and longform writing. The first one talks about the reasons and hopes for this: putanumonit.com/2022/04/11/bet…

In this post: I improvise a comedy sketch after failing for a month to write anything serious.

In the post: the cost of video games, vodka, and war, friends determining finances, specimens of insanity, stealing money from the poor and status from the rich.

In the post: imagining someone emotionally stable, anxiety gradients and 9/11, managing each other's body budget, emotion as strategy, why rich men keep servants, Trump and ego, Stoicism, the philosopher urge, ancient Greek cultists, faithless leaders, universal religion.

Interview with anonymous about emotions, billionaires, submission, Plato, and why individual identity is a mistake. putanumonit.com/2021/06/17/the…

In the post: tedious incels, nerd slapping, tennis abuse, cake in the desert, no interest-rate future, dumped for AI, dancing eyes, Romanian screaming, skepticism of jealousy.

All the dating stories from my previous life that somehow managed not to crush my optimism about romance. putanumonit.com/2021/05/30/eas…

In the post: the guy who worked out of a marriage, the social invasion, why casual sex is bad so often, the law of preservation of ambiguity, Putanumonit makes a difference.

My Quillette article on sex negativity and follow-up thoughts on fuckability, why sex is bad so often, the preservation of ambiguity, and the value of blogs. putanumonit.com/2021/05/14/sex…

In the post: who changed the UK lockdown policy, the utility of putting a num on COVID, nudgerism confirmed worse than chance, think or swim, institutional coordination of social reality, Rationalists as a monastic order.

Thinking about the impact of my writing upon finding out that it may have been much greater than I thought. putanumonit.com/2021/04/03/mon…

In the post: @liminal_warmth, art's sake, atheism signaling, pricing options, everything is contracts, vice signaling, is a digital emulation a "soul"?, Rationality is making a million dollars, everything is Newcomb-like, selling your immortal model-in-other-minds.

Rationality is knowing better than to sell your soul, even if you don't believe you have one. putanumonit.com/2021/03/11/don…

In the post: things happen while you write about them, the devil, Cade Metz quoting PhDs, NYT vs. critical thinking, to fight, ignore, or troll the narrative, who likes Q Anon, playing the long game of truth and power.

Follow ups on The Narrative and Its Discontents: journalists, nerds, politicians, and trolls. putanumonit.com/2021/02/22/abo…

In the post: rationality for monkeys and AIs, academic insufficiency, cope, the point of life, free energy in cherries, superstitious day-trading, smurfs and racism, Blue Looks Marvelous, a hidden antelope, how the South justified slavery, a new direction in rationality.

Confirmation bias is the biggest obstacle to Rationality, and often the least understood. We need to rethink it through the lens of brains evolved in bodies and made for action, not argument. putanumonit.com/2021/01/23/con…