Addressing the Dragon in the room
Recently, a friend of mine shared this video in one of our group chats: The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant I strongly suggest watching the video before reading this post…. Read more »
Category Archives: Ethics
Zuckerberg versus Cruz
Not so long ago, Facebook had to deal with a scandal about their user’s personal data being sold. Ignoring the fact that every single person who signed up for Facebook accepted… Read more »
TL;DR in philosophy
Here are a few Too long; didn’t read for big schools of thoughts in philosophy. Most of them are explained, then implicitly criticized because I am something of a cynic… Read more »
Dark Reflexions
This post is about two weeks late. I happened to first write it on the one day that the autosave feature didn’t work as expected, and I lost the whole… Read more »
Good versus Evil
Most people, at least where I’m from, are taught to be nice from the start. We are exposed to stories from books, movies and games, where the nice characters win… Read more »
The real source of the problem
My guess is that you can guess what this is going to be about. Hint: What happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas. Like every time there is a notable… Read more »
Judge, Jury and Executioner
I figured at least some of you are tired of hearing me talk about self-driving cars. I assume at least some of you, once you started reading, will read an… Read more »
Any recommendation can make sense with arbitrary premises
One of the most interesting things I’ve noticed since I started keeping an eye out for cognitive biases, is how unreliable reasoning is. Specifically, reasoning that goes like this: I… Read more »
Going their own way
I don’t want to run a marathon. I have attempted running, but I can’t even come close to marathon distance. It probably wouldn’t be impossible for me to do it,… Read more »
The reverse lottery
This is a thought experiment. Any ressemblance to real or fictional people or events is purely coincidental. Any expectations of realism and decent ways to put in place the following… Read more »