Antimemetics is the study of ideas that resist spreading [0]. Ideas which are the opposite of memes. Rather than going viral, they go dar| Applied Divinity Studies
You used to comfort yourself with the knowledge that social media is fake. But now the beautiful people are here, in person, all around y| Applied Divinity Studies
There’s a tradition of identifying aberrant behavior, posing a mystery around its existence, and using that as a jumping off point for sp| Applied Divinity Studies
There is nothing bad in each of these lives; but there is little happiness, and little else that is good. The people in Z ne| Applied Divinity Studies
A fun game for avowed non-utilitarians is to invent increasingly exotic thought experiments to demonstrate the sheer absurdity of utilita| Applied Divinity Studies
[Contains spoilers for Unsong.] Since time immemorial, people have asked how evil can exist in a world created by an omni| Applied Divinity Studies
At the Atlantic, Derek Thompson wants to push back against the anti-work narrative . Contrary to what you may have heard, he| Applied Divinity Studies
Some people argue that shoplifters in San Francisco are running rampant. I d| Applied Divinity Studies
You may have heard that there’s a shoplifting surge hitting San Francisco. Criminals are running wild, and thanks to bleeding-heart progr| Applied Divinity Studies
The people you see have a reputation. Some of them are high-status, some are low-status. Some have their reputation conferred upon by a h| Applied Divinity Studies
[TLDR: I paid $95 for a 10 minute video consultation with a doctor, told them I was depressed and wanted fluvoxamine, and got my pres| Applied Divinity Studies
Since quitting my job to blog full time, I didn’t make a lot of money until recently. As of last month, some readers are paying me to adv| Applied Divinity Studies
Last century, since the end of the Cold War, economic criteria have come to rule our day-to-day lives, and humanity,| Applied Divinity Studies
You are standing at the foot of the mountain. We are all always at the foot. The speed of light is the foot of a moun| Applied Divinity Studies
[Thanks to Charles Dillon (2.5x) and| Applied Divinity Studies
I occasionally get emails from young people asking me what they should do with their lives, and implicitly asking how they can become wel| Applied Divinity Studies
Early in my blogging career, my favorite growth metric was “number of @openphilanthropy.com addresses in my subscriber list”. For| Applied Divinity Studies
I’m not convinced anyone has actually read Stubborn Attachments. I’ve seen all your reviews [1], but they seem to be of a different book| Applied Divinity Studies
In No One is Even Trying, I wrote: …take a look at Byrne Hob| Applied Divinity Studies
When I first started writing, I had no intention of making any of it public. I read internet blogs, and sometimes penned emails in respon| Applied Divinity Studies