Reasoning under uncertainty about sentience
I am sentient: that is, I have experiences and feel both pleasure and pain.| Thing of Things
I am sentient: that is, I have experiences and feel both pleasure and pain.| Thing of Things
A common metaphor is the idea of the expanding moral circle.| Thing of Things
Naively, you would think that you add together all the good things someone does, subtract the bad things, and then if the result is positive you like them.| thingofthings.substack.com
AIs recently passed a fiction-writing Turing test. The lesson I learned from this is that, wow, humans are garbage at both writing and reading flash fiction.| thingofthings.substack.com
I am continually haunted by terrible thought experiments.| thingofthings.substack.com
Sometimes people discourse about whether regular sex is necessary for a good marriage, or whether a dead bedroom is wronging your partner in some way, or whether you should have "maintenance sex." This is an unusually cursed discourse, even for discourse about sex, which is already extremely cursed.| Thing of Things
[This is a guest blog post from a writer who wishes to remain anonymous about her experience selling sex in the Bay Area.]| thingofthings.substack.com
Sometimes, when people say "gender is a performance," they mean that gender is something you pretend to do, like an actor upon the stage.| thingofthings.substack.com
I. Sometimes people say you shouldn't buy Harry Potter books because J.| thingofthings.substack.com
Regular announcements: did you know you can hire me for life coaching and general consulting? You can also buy my novella Her Voice Is A Backwards Record wherever fine books are sold (except Google Books).| thingofthings.substack.com
I am going to be at Metagame next weekend!| Thing of Things
When I was a therapy client, I found myself very frustrated by my therapists' refusal to diagnose me.| Thing of Things
Most history books I read feature, at best, one Weird Person of History: one person so charismatic, so active, so goddamn strange, that he seems almost like the main character of reality.| Thing of Things
For more than a decade, love-shy men—men who struggle to find a romantic partner—have been emailing me and posting in my comment section about their woes.| Thing of Things
Tino De Angelis was the most persecuted man of all time.| Thing of Things
Everyone is so weird about apologizing to children.| Thing of Things
I find this review of dating men in the Bay Area very interesting, which is why I'm going to write a long-ass post complaining about it.| Thing of Things
As I read Maoism: A Global History, I came to the conclusion that Maoism is a cognitohazard.| Thing of Things
Against some evopsych| thingofthings.substack.com
The choices that you don't see| thingofthings.substack.com
Clickbait title: You'll Never Guess Who Is REALLY The Bad Parent!| thingofthings.substack.com
Advice for the excessively guilty| thingofthings.substack.com
In praise of occasionally thinking about feelings| thingofthings.substack.com
I'm a personal responsibility blogger in my old age| thingofthings.substack.com
