1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (235+ words) It is currently the evening after day two of Less Online 2026. I wish to document one popular topic of discussion among Less Online attendees: golden h...

19+ hour, 27+ min ago  (1754+ words) Freud's theory of the domestification of fire, presented as a footnote in Civilization and Its Discontents, pp 34-35: Psychoanalytical material, while incomplete and impossible to interpret with any certainty, at least allows a surmise- a fantastic sounding one- about the origin…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (584+ words) Editing is far easier than writing. You can usually look at a finished product and notice its flaws in a single read-through. "This section is a bit redundant, "the tone in this passage is jarring, "this paragraph feels overlong. As…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (29+ words) Last year my 4-year-old can of bear spray reached its expiry date, completely unused, and I wondered how sound the basis of that date was. Reddit sho...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1564+ words) For those who are trying to bring about a glorious transhuman utopia with the help of hopefully-aligned ASI, I think it's worth thinking explicitly a...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (343+ words) > Nevertheless, I shall take advantage of your kindness in assuming we agree that a science cannot be conditioned upon empiricism. > > " Jacques Lac...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (230+ words) Often when running meetups you'll have several lively conversations going at the same time. This is a great problem to have, but it can make it difficult to get everyone's attention for announcements. Try using "Contagious Humming" when you need…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (22+ words) The following post seeks to look further into why NLA (Natural Language Autoencoders) contains the prediction more often when the original activation...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (31+ words) When Lily was about two she told me she wanted a song about "no". This was ten years ago, and I don't remember why she wanted this, but I made someth...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (25+ words) My older two kids (12y, 10y) like contra dancing, but but have been increasingly unhappy with the available opportunities: a family dance is "too bor...