Yet some thematic clusters emerge, if you can call two posts a cluster.
Not sure what the next year will bring to the blog. I may try writing on a more regular schedule, may try some experiments. It՚s time to level up, or so the spirit of new year՚s resolution tells me. That spirit, of course, has notably little power once the holiday season is past.
Objective/subjective
Both these posts try to get at (in quite different ways) the tension between the depersonalized view-from-nowhere of mainstream science and the situated and subjective view of the cosmos we naturally start with. A topic I՚ve touched on before.Romantic Science
Accursed Ipsissimosity
Philosophy of software
Software is eating the world despite the fact that nobody seems to really understand it very well. Given that this is the one area where I might claim to have some degree of privileged expert insight, I should probably write more about it.Thoughts on Ted Nelson
Software Studies
Lambda the Ultimate Incantation
The political abstract
I don՚t bother writing much on day to day politics – there are just too many other people doing that. But occasionally I cough up something on the nature of politics, coalitions, conflict, etc.Vertical and Horizontal Solidarity
Refactoring War
Encounters with rationalism
I have been hanging around a lot with LessWrong people and their ilk (and somewhat cavalierly using them as foils for writing posts that go off on my own tangents). They certainly are a lively bunch and even if I can՚t get down with their program it is usually useful for me to try and articulate the whys and wheres of our differences.Superintelligence
Reading Recommendations for Rationalists
Encounters with the sacred
The most important things are the most difficult to write about.Embodiments of the Word
Trip Report
The Sacred and the Rational
Death and Dualism
Death. Thou Shalt Die
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