Blog: Expanded Universe
One day I'll stop making new blogs on new platforms. But Bear seems pretty cool. The posts here will probably be less polished than my . {{ posts }}...| Blog: Expanded Universe
One day I'll stop making new blogs on new platforms. But Bear seems pretty cool. The posts here will probably be less polished than my . {{ posts }}...| Blog: Expanded Universe
it's a popular sentiment on bear blog that the wider world of social media is... bad; that engagement-maximizing algorithms and the posts they inspire people to make are addicting, enraging, misleading, and dividing us. sentiment can only go so far so I was glad to read The Case Against Social Media is Stronger Than You Think (via Platformer) recently, which ties together a lot of sources and research to make the case: posts with negative emotions spread further, disproportionately many come ...| Blog: Expanded Universe
When I was younger, I wasn't interested in "trivia" (as a game genre, say) because I thought it was all about stuffing random facts into your head to regurgi...| Blog: Expanded Universe
I learned this puzzle years ago from this , who credits Scott Garrabrant. (Note: My presentation of the puzzle below is slightly harder; the tweet will spoil...| Blog: Expanded Universe
I'm a bit late to the question challenge posed by Ava ...| Blog: Expanded Universe
(I work at Anthropic, but far from any efforts related to math reasoning or formalization; opinions are my own) This is an incredibly speci...| Blog: Expanded Universe
The other day, I was cooking and, embarrassingly, failed to perceive that my air fryer basket was right next to the pot. So, its exterior plastic handle melt...| Blog: Expanded Universe
A few nights ago, I was waiting for my Lyft outside when I heard a small repeated clicking sound and felt something small hit me, possibly from a car that ha...| Blog: Expanded Universe
i didn't make it to my local protest. i could have if i planned more and tried harder, oh well. i'll call my reps on monday.| Blog: Expanded Universe
Something I often forget or fail to appreciate, when I think about banging my "let's all start blogs and write 10,000-word posts as our primary means of communication" drum, is that other people find many shortform posts funny, and I... don't...? Like, if I don't like the taste of junk food, it'd ring hollow for me to scold others for eating it.| Blog: Expanded Universe
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, p. 121:| Blog: Expanded Universe
One way is to write your own blog post that links to it. It's pretty nice — you own your post, they own theirs, both of you get to format and organize them t...| Blog: Expanded Universe
