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Emotional Microscope

Before we could accept the germ theory of disease, we had to invent the…

Doing “good”

Does donating $$ actually improve the world, or merely forces our beliefs on others?

A gentle apocalypse

Is robots taking over the world bad? I roughly outline one scenario I have in…

Does butterfly affect?

Can a butterfly really cause a hurricane?

Mindfulness as debugging

I was recently thinking about one cool way we could conceptualize various…

Our compressed perception

One of the most important and amazing feats that our brain learns to do in this complex world is to find…

Is social theory our doom?

Complexity science, and especially the dream to deeply understand social systems and build concrete predictive…

What is magic?

Don’t know about you, but I’ve always wanted to discover real magic in this world. Recently, I was trying to formulate this desire…

Letters about structure of the universe

In this post, I wanted to share a bit of a sense of the more fun aspects of a scientific…