corpus.blog
41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e5d43434c", "title": "It’s the social isolation. You’ve mentioned a few times how you feel glutted for social connection,…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828682361531236352", "published_at": "2026-09-24T23:38:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e5df1ab8e", "title": "Ya gotta be more specific than that if you want to do politics. Like, you and I are a couple of…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828681337229705216", "published_at": "2026-09-24T23:21:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e5e219b3f", "title": "Not the accusation in the tweet above, which is that the far left has stymied regulation.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828678055721680896", "published_at": "2026-09-24T22:29:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e5e6aacea", "title": "What is the “far left” failure to regulate he’s talking about?", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828675144310554624", "published_at": "2026-09-24T21:43:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e5ec8d032", "title": "I recently learned that Peter Thiel has, like, his own Bilderburg group/Trilateral Commission thing…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828657331089932288", "published_at": "2026-09-24T17:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e5fb7d190", "title": "Look I’m sorry I think,", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828654527266914305", "published_at": "2026-09-24T16:15:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e60b1f525", "title": "Well, right-racism, through the design of a system where a small army of masked, anonymous…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828653999699918848", "published_at": "2026-09-24T16:07:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e60f40697", "title": "Way, way back in the day Alicublog had this joke about people who said, “Ever since 9/11, I’m…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828628752660643840", "published_at": "2026-09-24T09:25:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e619d0e04", "title": "One of the most infuriating things about talking to right wingers is that they treat things that…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828627040627507200", "published_at": "2026-09-24T08:58:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e629748d7", "title": "Yudkowsky’s whole thing was improving logical thought. If Rationalists aren’t less likely than…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828586122808590336", "published_at": "2026-09-23T22:08:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e62b6d279", "title": "Like, here’s an example I found in the wild trying to remember who wrote that article about Leverage…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828503776162955264", "published_at": "2026-09-23T00:19:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e631c54a9", "title": "A very common thing autistic people have to deal with is a whipsaw back and forth between these two…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828502327311958016", "published_at": "2026-09-22T23:56:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e63459b74", "title": "Rationalism was largely built by autistic people with highly economically marketable skills trying…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828501097671999488", "published_at": "2026-09-22T23:36:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e63dabb6d", "title": "Funny thing is I wasn’t even really thinking of the murder cults or real radicals, the one I had in…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828499079236648960", "published_at": "2026-09-22T23:04:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e645538bf", "title": "One of those, “What do any of those words actually mean?” news articles and probably internal memos.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828491711527485440", "published_at": "2026-09-22T21:07:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e64fafa15", "title": "I probably sort of knew this but it did recently occur to me more explicitly that one reason…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828428550539509760", "published_at": "2026-09-22T04:23:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0da03-7b57-727b-b444-c31e6526d51a", "title": "@mitigatedchaos with Trump in office I’m really tempted to throw it right back in your face:", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828427395092594688", "published_at": "2026-09-22T04:05:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c66a-c833-719c-8d99-f1a3e645bfd0", "title": "Afghanistan has around 49 million people, which means, if every man, woman and child in the country…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828353922330771456", "published_at": "2026-09-21T08:37:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c66a-c833-719c-8d99-f1a3e6b15489", "title": "I guess “Trump thought we’d win quickly in Iran because we won quickly in Venezuela” always seemed…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828314389454127104", "published_at": "2026-09-20T22:09:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c66a-c833-719c-8d99-f1a3e72bf240", "title": "Like, when I imagine “really believing in something” what I would take that to mean is that I have…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828266324719435776", "published_at": "2026-09-20T09:25:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c66a-c833-719c-8d99-f1a3e7d978bf", "title": "We could let the Taliban immigrate and simply prohibit them from voting, was my suggestion up there.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828265686081093632", "published_at": "2026-09-20T09:15:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e312256562d", "title": "Also the thing where the fascists go,", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828118767263465472", "published_at": "2026-09-18T18:19:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e31234edfbe", "title": "Foods costs are expected to rise at some point in the coming months once the shipping industry fully…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828113599402786816", "published_at": "2026-09-18T16:57:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e3123ed3c53", "title": "Why aren’t you letting children vote?", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828113232406413312", "published_at": "2026-09-18T16:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e31247c02af", "title": "Multiple people have told me that the Soviets, like the Christians, “Actually believed their own…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828111973106548736", "published_at": "2026-09-18T16:31:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e3124df6123", "title": "No, I think the voters don’t know anything, except who’s in charge right now and that there’s…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828111108180197376", "published_at": "2026-09-18T16:18:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e31255caf6e", "title": "I’m also realizing that they don’t actually issue W2’s biannually, so… uh… Question mark I…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828047060862402560", "published_at": "2026-09-17T23:20:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e31260f1c81", "title": "In a very real way, the voters brought about these changes because they were angry that health care…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828046888896020480", "published_at": "2026-09-17T23:17:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e3126b1c451", "title": "Oregon Health Plan, a health insurance plan for low-income Oregonians who can’t afford employer…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828046674565922816", "published_at": "2026-09-17T23:14:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e3126c114e2", "title": "The reason not to restrict the franchise to birth citizens is, I suspect, a deep underlying feeling…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828046098402852864", "published_at": "2026-09-17T23:04:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e3126fbbe4d", "title": "Well, no; *you’re* the one excluding restriction of the franchise as a policy option and I think…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828040200165949440", "published_at": "2026-09-17T21:31:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e312799daae", "title": "I mean, the alternative solution is simply to disallow immigrants from voting entirely; restrict the…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828034143693750272", "published_at": "2026-09-17T19:54:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e31283a5f3f", "title": "From the first three points you appear to want to relitigate women’s suffrage.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828033424454533120", "published_at": "2026-09-17T19:43:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e3128c76a27", "title": "I don’t know, the big facts and logic organization I think of is The Daily Wire, which I guess does…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/828032442566918144", "published_at": "2026-09-17T19:27:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e3128f88cde", "title": "I wonder, whether it’s the effectiveness or the altruism that they find more offensive.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827981128540487680", "published_at": "2026-09-17T05:52:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e3129ef473b", "title": "In terms of backlash, I do wonder why (And maybe there are a lot of people saying this) there aren’t…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827948560460988416", "published_at": "2026-09-16T21:14:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e312ae61b33", "title": "Maybe “self-regard” is not exactly the right term, but a kind of profoundly attenuated, nearly…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827915552796344320", "published_at": "2026-09-16T12:29:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e312b48325f", "title": "A couple anecdotes potentially relevant to “walking on eggshells” around trans people: My mom, who’s honestly kinda SWERF'n'TERFy (albeit getting a bit better now that my family has started adjusting to my trans identity), has objected, as Orwell did, to having to play along with a widespread public fiction when (she thinks) everyone secretly understands that the emperor has no clothes (I used the analogy of “If you had a Haitian roommate who practiced Vodou, would you similarly object to respe", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827914271464849408", "published_at": "2026-09-16T12:09:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e312bbf8a1c", "title": "Is this a Peter Thiel thing? Who caught the guy’s ear on this? I know Trump doesn’t know what the…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827803722588504064", "published_at": "2026-09-15T06:52:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e312c0e96ae", "title": "To some extent for creationists it’s all three, but in my opinion mostly the second one.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827803500774916096", "published_at": "2026-09-15T06:48:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb96-c44c-7022-9f55-3e312c743c0e", "title": "A couple anecdotes potentially relevant to “walking on eggshells” around trans people: My mom, who’s honestly kinda SWERF'n'TERFy (albeit getting a bit better now that my family has started adjusting to my trans identity), has objected, as Orwell did, to having to play along with a widespread public fiction when (she thinks) everyone secretly understands that the emperor has no clothes (I used the analogy of “If you had a Haitian roommate who practiced Vodou, would you similarly object to respe", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827802148569038848", "published_at": "2026-09-15T06:27:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600aef724e1", "title": "Hey, if two rival groups of people got to argue about whether I was allowed to stay in the country,…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827525805310672896", "published_at": "2026-09-12T05:15:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600afc27842", "title": "Part of the reason why I has a really frightening break with the left was that the constant mental…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827525312844808192", "published_at": "2026-09-12T05:07:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b04fd3b0", "title": "If you had power you wouldn’t be an illegal immigrant in limbo relying on the favor of judges and…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827520462087159808", "published_at": "2026-09-12T03:50:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b0c5325e", "title": "What an utterly absurd thing to say.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827520347004911616", "published_at": "2026-09-12T03:48:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b1370c23", "title": "Incredibly fascinating to me that Hegseth declared what was, to all intents and purposes a massive…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827519357818224640", "published_at": "2026-09-12T03:32:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b1bb080b", "title": "Sorry, it was deceitful not to point out that there are also a lot of college professors on the side…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827517786534313984", "published_at": "2026-09-12T03:07:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b2619442", "title": "The small, scrappy band of underdogs (Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, the military industrial complex, the…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827508636951642113", "published_at": "2026-09-12T00:42:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b352d58e", "title": "What’s your opinion on the latest Freddie DeBoer censorship article?", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827489734969491456", "published_at": "2026-09-11T19:41:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b3cc3c7f", "title": "What’s your opinion on the latest Freddie DeBoer censorship article?", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827482768084811777", "published_at": "2026-09-11T17:51:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b469048d", "title": "War is fascinating to me because it’s always profoundly destructive, it costs enormous amounts of…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827481968417636352", "published_at": "2026-09-11T17:38:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b5250f9d", "title": "Musk has a level of political ambition that those guys don’t, though. They’re happy to go along…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827481467685863424", "published_at": "2026-09-11T17:30:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b5e963c4", "title": "What’s your opinion on the latest Freddie DeBoer censorship article?", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827461331474071552", "published_at": "2026-09-11T12:10:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b69037af", "title": "I don’t know, I can’t say I’ve never done something wrong just because I was annoyed by the person…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827460167040991232", "published_at": "2026-09-11T11:51:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b70a6b64", "title": "I *don’t* think the medical establishment has my best interests at heart, it manifestly and…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827451605677998080", "published_at": "2026-09-11T09:35:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b762236a", "title": "I don’t know if it’s just the coincidence of Christianity being the dominant religion, but this…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827450119953711104", "published_at": "2026-09-11T09:12:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b7f10b4a", "title": "Not to sound like a Hippie or nothing, but what exactly did I get from the US government kidnapping…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827449266348933120", "published_at": "2026-09-11T08:58:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b8eed595", "title": "Which policy of Obama’s are you thinking of?", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827448973279313920", "published_at": "2026-09-11T08:53:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b917e90a", "title": "Which is fascinating to me because of the overwhelming sense that Vietnam and every war post Vietnam…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827434476200247296", "published_at": "2026-09-11T05:03:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a09528-4a59-7323-950c-f600b9ec92c3", "title": "First mate wants to scuttle the ship, explains his plan of triggered explosives and everything, but insists it will only harm the captain’s crew and not sink the ship. If you disagree, you’re with the captain. This gets him a large following. Second mate knows this looks bad, stays silent-ish to appease, but is still attacked for it. Both have as their main strategy “make the captain’s crew angrier -> ??? -> we win, didn’t work last 2 times because we didn’t try hard enough”.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827434158298120192", "published_at": "2026-09-11T04:58:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08cc9-5577-7257-8d9d-3b55286f0a31", "title": "Obama’s excuse for why bombing Libya didn’t violate the War Powers Act was that servicemen were not…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827326811019051008", "published_at": "2026-09-10T00:32:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08cc9-5577-7257-8d9d-3b55291b0935", "title": "Well, yes, except one of the definitions of intelligence in the post I linked to up there is:", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827324682401464320", "published_at": "2026-09-09T23:58:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08cc9-5577-7257-8d9d-3b5529fa7067", "title": "Like, if you tell me that AI can basically already replace white collar workers my first question…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827323170098937856", "published_at": "2026-09-09T23:34:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08cc9-5577-7257-8d9d-3b552aacc75c", "title": "What I find disorienting is sort of… perpendicular to all of that.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827322849760083968", "published_at": "2026-09-09T23:29:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08cc9-5577-7257-8d9d-3b552af03aa5", "title": "There are a couple of examples I wrote about here.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827316250367737856", "published_at": "2026-09-09T21:44:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08cc9-5577-7257-8d9d-3b552b2b3945", "title": "I think… I think what I find so disorienting about current AI pop science is that there’s a lot I…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827313844422574080", "published_at": "2026-09-09T21:06:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fb7ab17d5", "title": "Barack Obama said that the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr on his own lawn was, “Stupid” and he got…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827285683673743360", "published_at": "2026-09-09T13:38:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fb87e5e50", "title": "Man, remember when Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff gave that speech about how all right-wing…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827284288648118272", "published_at": "2026-09-09T13:16:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fb9327d51", "title": "“Intelligence” is a word with several overlapping yet distinct meanings.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827253401647759361", "published_at": "2026-09-09T05:05:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fba273c75", "title": "I think something important is that when it comes to “Makers” and “Takers” these are extremely…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827252455370801152", "published_at": "2026-09-09T04:50:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbaa6f109", "title": "The next post on Hacker News is about how AI stocks are all going up on the market.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827251704822120448", "published_at": "2026-09-09T04:38:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbb82f062", "title": "After two goddamn decades of getting grief because I didn’t vote for Gore or Obama how is it that so…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827250943552864256", "published_at": "2026-09-09T04:26:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbba27431", "title": "I used to care quite a lot about the internals of Democratic politics. Trump is fundamentally worse…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827250584883281920", "published_at": "2026-09-09T04:20:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbbda9622", "title": "Oh hey, do you have any thoughts on Hasan Piker and the latest media frenzy?", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827249954758230016", "published_at": "2026-09-09T04:10:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbcd40551", "title": "Oh hey, do you have any thoughts on Hasan Piker and the latest media frenzy?", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827249709665173505", "published_at": "2026-09-09T04:06:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbcf9a147", "title": "Or that “partisan pundit” and “government official” used to be considered different jobs.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827115798600564736", "published_at": "2026-09-07T16:38:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbde685b8", "title": "Like, I’m in the frightening position of wondering whether at some point we’ll have to explain to…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/827115541037727745", "published_at": "2026-09-07T16:34:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbee18e12", "title": "Part of the reason people like physical media is that tactile sensation is pleasurable in and of…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826954720463765504", "published_at": "2026-09-05T21:57:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fbfdbf144", "title": "It’s really amazing how remarkably the Trump administration has transformed political speech, and…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826954389722906624", "published_at": "2026-09-05T21:52:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fc0a0b6a5", "title": "I think there’s at least two kinds of franchise fiction, or actually in practice there’s a kind of…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826953743983656960", "published_at": "2026-09-05T21:42:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fc0f66e5b", "title": "What bothers me is the cliche of the liberal who just lives in his little bubble and values purity…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826847813803589632", "published_at": "2026-09-04T17:38:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d4-7319-b45b-0b8fc164de8b", "title": "Look, I’m all for respectful conversation, you can see it in my blog.", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826801392783179776", "published_at": "2026-09-04T05:20:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d5-719c-94c2-ab32d3b76903", "title": "It’s really sort of surreal, trying to navigate this stuff. It’s weird for literally the entire…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826799785611853824", "published_at": "2026-09-04T04:55:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d5-719c-94c2-ab32d4396a57", "title": "Or maybe it’s more like government is small when it stays out of the way of good people who deserve…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826725334470868992", "published_at": "2026-09-03T09:11:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d5-719c-94c2-ab32d49dadb3", "title": "I was going to say blathering about end times nonsense theology is, like, one of the most…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826692219145682944", "published_at": "2026-09-03T00:25:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a8-e4d5-719c-94c2-ab32d4dfc8ed", "title": "Yeah, from talking to people recently my impression is that small government is when government only…", "url": "https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/826691103468257280", "published_at": "2026-09-03T00:07:52+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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It’s the social isolation. You’ve mentioned a few times how you feel glutted for social connection,…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Ya gotta be more specific than that if you want to do politics. Like, you and I are a couple of…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Not the accusation in the tweet above, which is that the far left has stymied regulation.original ↗
24 Sept 2026
What is the “far left” failure to regulate he’s talking about?original ↗
24 Sept 2026
I recently learned that Peter Thiel has, like, his own Bilderburg group/Trilateral Commission thing…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Look I’m sorry I think,original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Well, right-racism, through the design of a system where a small army of masked, anonymous…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Way, way back in the day Alicublog had this joke about people who said, “Ever since 9/11, I’m…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
One of the most infuriating things about talking to right wingers is that they treat things that…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Yudkowsky’s whole thing was improving logical thought. If Rationalists aren’t less likely than…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Like, here’s an example I found in the wild trying to remember who wrote that article about Leverage…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
A very common thing autistic people have to deal with is a whipsaw back and forth between these two…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Rationalism was largely built by autistic people with highly economically marketable skills trying…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Funny thing is I wasn’t even really thinking of the murder cults or real radicals, the one I had in…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
One of those, “What do any of those words actually mean?” news articles and probably internal memos.original ↗
22 Sept 2026
I probably sort of knew this but it did recently occur to me more explicitly that one reason…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
@mitigatedchaos with Trump in office I’m really tempted to throw it right back in your face:original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Afghanistan has around 49 million people, which means, if every man, woman and child in the country…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
I guess “Trump thought we’d win quickly in Iran because we won quickly in Venezuela” always seemed…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
Like, when I imagine “really believing in something” what I would take that to mean is that I have…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
We could let the Taliban immigrate and simply prohibit them from voting, was my suggestion up there.original ↗
20 Sept 2026
Also the thing where the fascists go,original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Foods costs are expected to rise at some point in the coming months once the shipping industry fully…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Why aren’t you letting children vote?original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Multiple people have told me that the Soviets, like the Christians, “Actually believed their own…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
No, I think the voters don’t know anything, except who’s in charge right now and that there’s…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
I’m also realizing that they don’t actually issue W2’s biannually, so… uh… Question mark I…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
In a very real way, the voters brought about these changes because they were angry that health care…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Oregon Health Plan, a health insurance plan for low-income Oregonians who can’t afford employer…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
The reason not to restrict the franchise to birth citizens is, I suspect, a deep underlying feeling…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Well, no; *you’re* the one excluding restriction of the franchise as a policy option and I think…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
I mean, the alternative solution is simply to disallow immigrants from voting entirely; restrict the…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
From the first three points you appear to want to relitigate women’s suffrage.original ↗
17 Sept 2026
I don’t know, the big facts and logic organization I think of is The Daily Wire, which I guess does…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
I wonder, whether it’s the effectiveness or the altruism that they find more offensive.original ↗
17 Sept 2026
In terms of backlash, I do wonder why (And maybe there are a lot of people saying this) there aren’t…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Maybe “self-regard” is not exactly the right term, but a kind of profoundly attenuated, nearly…original ↗
16 Sept 2026
A couple anecdotes potentially relevant to “walking on eggshells” around trans people: My mom, who’s honestly kinda SWERF'n'TERFy (albeit getting a bit better now that my family has started adjusting to my trans identity), has objected, as Orwell did, to having to play along with a widespread public fiction when (she thinks) everyone secretly understands that the emperor has no clothes (I used the analogy of “If you had a Haitian roommate who practiced Vodou, would you similarly object to respeoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Is this a Peter Thiel thing? Who caught the guy’s ear on this? I know Trump doesn’t know what the…original ↗
15 Sept 2026
To some extent for creationists it’s all three, but in my opinion mostly the second one.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
A couple anecdotes potentially relevant to “walking on eggshells” around trans people: My mom, who’s honestly kinda SWERF'n'TERFy (albeit getting a bit better now that my family has started adjusting to my trans identity), has objected, as Orwell did, to having to play along with a widespread public fiction when (she thinks) everyone secretly understands that the emperor has no clothes (I used the analogy of “If you had a Haitian roommate who practiced Vodou, would you similarly object to respeoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Hey, if two rival groups of people got to argue about whether I was allowed to stay in the country,…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Part of the reason why I has a really frightening break with the left was that the constant mental…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
If you had power you wouldn’t be an illegal immigrant in limbo relying on the favor of judges and…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
What an utterly absurd thing to say.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Incredibly fascinating to me that Hegseth declared what was, to all intents and purposes a massive…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Sorry, it was deceitful not to point out that there are also a lot of college professors on the side…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The small, scrappy band of underdogs (Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, the military industrial complex, the…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
What’s your opinion on the latest Freddie DeBoer censorship article?original ↗
11 Sept 2026
What’s your opinion on the latest Freddie DeBoer censorship article?original ↗
11 Sept 2026
War is fascinating to me because it’s always profoundly destructive, it costs enormous amounts of…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Musk has a level of political ambition that those guys don’t, though. They’re happy to go along…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
What’s your opinion on the latest Freddie DeBoer censorship article?original ↗
11 Sept 2026
I don’t know, I can’t say I’ve never done something wrong just because I was annoyed by the person…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
I *don’t* think the medical establishment has my best interests at heart, it manifestly and…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
I don’t know if it’s just the coincidence of Christianity being the dominant religion, but this…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Not to sound like a Hippie or nothing, but what exactly did I get from the US government kidnapping…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Which policy of Obama’s are you thinking of?original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Which is fascinating to me because of the overwhelming sense that Vietnam and every war post Vietnam…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
First mate wants to scuttle the ship, explains his plan of triggered explosives and everything, but insists it will only harm the captain’s crew and not sink the ship. If you disagree, you’re with the captain. This gets him a large following. Second mate knows this looks bad, stays silent-ish to appease, but is still attacked for it. Both have as their main strategy “make the captain’s crew angrier -> ??? -> we win, didn’t work last 2 times because we didn’t try hard enough”.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Obama’s excuse for why bombing Libya didn’t violate the War Powers Act was that servicemen were not…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Well, yes, except one of the definitions of intelligence in the post I linked to up there is:original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Like, if you tell me that AI can basically already replace white collar workers my first question…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
What I find disorienting is sort of… perpendicular to all of that.original ↗
9 Sept 2026
There are a couple of examples I wrote about here.original ↗
9 Sept 2026
I think… I think what I find so disorienting about current AI pop science is that there’s a lot I…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Barack Obama said that the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr on his own lawn was, “Stupid” and he got…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Man, remember when Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff gave that speech about how all right-wing…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
“Intelligence” is a word with several overlapping yet distinct meanings.original ↗
9 Sept 2026
I think something important is that when it comes to “Makers” and “Takers” these are extremely…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
The next post on Hacker News is about how AI stocks are all going up on the market.original ↗
9 Sept 2026
After two goddamn decades of getting grief because I didn’t vote for Gore or Obama how is it that so…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
I used to care quite a lot about the internals of Democratic politics. Trump is fundamentally worse…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Oh hey, do you have any thoughts on Hasan Piker and the latest media frenzy?original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Oh hey, do you have any thoughts on Hasan Piker and the latest media frenzy?original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Or that “partisan pundit” and “government official” used to be considered different jobs.original ↗
7 Sept 2026
Like, I’m in the frightening position of wondering whether at some point we’ll have to explain to…original ↗
7 Sept 2026
Part of the reason people like physical media is that tactile sensation is pleasurable in and of…original ↗
5 Sept 2026
It’s really amazing how remarkably the Trump administration has transformed political speech, and…original ↗
5 Sept 2026
I think there’s at least two kinds of franchise fiction, or actually in practice there’s a kind of…original ↗
5 Sept 2026
What bothers me is the cliche of the liberal who just lives in his little bubble and values purity…original ↗
4 Sept 2026
Look, I’m all for respectful conversation, you can see it in my blog.original ↗
4 Sept 2026
It’s really sort of surreal, trying to navigate this stuff. It’s weird for literally the entire…original ↗
4 Sept 2026
Or maybe it’s more like government is small when it stays out of the way of good people who deserve…original ↗
3 Sept 2026
I was going to say blathering about end times nonsense theology is, like, one of the most…original ↗
3 Sept 2026
Yeah, from talking to people recently my impression is that small government is when government only…original ↗
3 Sept 2026