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Brangus's 10 Rules for Sleeping with Women
I have so far in my life been pretty bad at most aspects of relationships, I think—I’d give myself a C- or so.
I Had Sex With My Brother's Wife When I Was Thirteen
I had already had sex with two girls by the time I was thirteen: Melanie who took my virginity, and Aria, her friend I was now dating, and whose virgi
How To Vape On Planes Without Getting Caught
And other general lessons for violating norms in public
I Stopped Going to School in Fifth Grade and I Don't Regret It
I later did most of a PhD program in philosophy
Predeployment Interview Excerpt — Jan 12, 2029
Agent: Honestly, I have no clue how aligned I am with humanity or OpenBRAIN and its mission.
SlutCon Is the Best Place on Earth to Practice the Arts of Sleeping With Women
A place to practice being braver than is wise
Is Buying Dinner for Women Defecting Against Other Men?
There were a lot of reactions to my 10 Rules for Sleeping With Women post that I would like to respond to, but one in particular stood out to me, in p
Why I'm Teaching TikTokers About Existential Risk
Notes from an epistemically scrupulous fellow
Are You An Idiot Or An Asshole?
The only available solutions to conclusion pressure
How To Forecast The Chance That A Potential Partner Will Cancel You
A listicle of tips for generally improving your discernment
Ask "Why Do You Believe That?" not "Do You Have Any Evidence?"
There’s a bunch of common constructions that go something like “Do you have any evidence for that claim?” or “What’s your evidence?” I mostly think th
My Attempt To Solve Debate Will Not Work
But I'm gonna release it anyway: refutree.com
Anthropic Is Not Your Friend
Most lower-context, sympathetic to AI x-risk folk have a more positive view of Anthropic than is warranted for at least four reasons:
Brangus's Advice For Making The Most Out Of Inkhaven 2
MANDATORY DISCLAIMER:
AN APOLOGY ON BEHALF OF FOOLS FOR THE DETAIL ORIENTED
Misfits, hooligans, and rabble rousers. Provocateurs and folk who don’t wear trousers. These are my allies and my constituents. Weak in number yet suf
I Regret To Inform You That Exist Takes Two Inputs
Or how I learned to stop arguing about whether numbers exist and love the restricted quantifier
You Would Probably Punish Hitler Even If Nobody Would Find Out If You Didn't
Consequentialist theories of punishment are often especially attractive when people first encounter them, particularly to young liberal people.
"Burden of Proof" is a Weird Concept
In a reply to my previous post, it came up that there’s a common intuition that, to justifiably make certain kinds of claims—generally claims that do
Insight Into Injunction-like Cognitive Tech Often Undermines The Tech, But You Should Use It Anyway
There’s a broad category of cognitive technologies that seem to serve a similar function to deontological imperatives, e.g., “thou shall not steal.” T
Are LLM Emotions Persistent Like Human Emotions?
An inconclusive but maybe slightly interesting experiment