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This is a blog containing essays, of varying levels of cogency, about various topics that my mind have wandered to. These include vaguely philosophical musings, book reviews, and the occasional technical piece. See the archive for all my posts, or below for the most recent ones.

Recent posts

• Why write? - January 6, 2026
  An invitation to engage in focused thought.
• Meta post - update III - September 10, 2025
  Update - migrating off Google Analytics, prerendering LaTeX with MathJax, and other updates.
• What does the end of mathematics look like? - May 18, 2025
  Wherein I muse about the value of understanding. For those who like a pithy takeaway, I propose that the end of mathematics does not look unlike the end of striving for understanding, and the improvement of the singular human mind.
• Making the errors go away - April 13, 2025
  Wherein I rant and make the errors go away.
• Tending your garden as fascism flowers elsewhere - March 23, 2025
  Wherein I bemoan the state of the world and encourage the quiet cultivation of an inner life.
• Vipassanā - calming a wandering mind - June 20, 2024
  Wherein I talk about my experiences at a 10 day vipassanā retreat, and analyse some ideas related to it, in a manner not quite aligned with the spirit of vipassanā.
• Some thoughts on the Tao Te Ching - January 14, 2024
  Wherein I talk about Taoism, and then present the result of my attempt to engage with a large language model to generate a novel arrangement of the Tao Te Ching.
• Meta post - update II - October 28, 2023
  Update - link section updated, and some personal comments.
• The case against the existential danger of an intelligence explosion - May 31, 2023
  Wherein I attempt to assuage my terror at the possibility of a fast artificial general intelligence takeoff by grasping at what may be straws.
• Short story review - The Mold of Yancy - March 2, 2023
  Wherein I use the vehicle of a short story I read recently to present some thoughts about the relationship between social media and totalitarianism.

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