“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem,” Albert Camus wrote, “and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts…
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December 2020

Originally published December 2018 We’ve all been willing participants in one of modernity’s largest deceptions — a subversive lie we tell ourselves and…

October 2020

On The Epistemic Status of Real versus Imagined Rewards

September 2020

The Marshmallow Experiment. Everyone knows the story by now: young children are left alone in a room with a single marshmallow, the attending adult…

August 2020

I want to begin further exploring the topic of agency with a question: Do you laugh at jokes that you know aren’t funny?
Some reading earlier issues may have wondered, yea people and corporations are changing stories and manipulating small parts of our daily activities, so…

July 2020

Let’s recap: We are surreptitiously being nudged in a very large number of directions daily. These nudges not only change the information we receive…
Tech companies have a mountain of experimental results that can empirically show how our behavior has and is being changed by them. And they have the…
Technology and AI ethicists have it wrong. The danger of technology and AI is not the tired old tropes of surveillance, tracking, or Cambridge…
Guest post by Zero HP Lovecraft
The commercialization of subtle behavior manipulation
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June 2020

Stoicism is often mischaracterized as a state of being unfeeling, free of passions, or being immovably calm and collected. I propose this idea is far…
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