Theory Blogs

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• Why Would Aliens Care About Us? — What if aliens came for our DNA, not our water? Here I question the Fermi Paradox and the sample size N=1 problem, and a
• Maimonides on negative theology — What did Maimonides mean by saying we can only say what God is not? I unpack his apophatic theology from the Guide of th
• Kant’s claustrophobic metaphysics — Hot off the press: my review of Marcus Willaschek's Kant: A Revolution in Thinking appears in the Claremont Review of Bo
• Why Describing Utopia Goes Badly — Why does describing utopia get mocked and vanish from debate? I recount my hunt for utopian studies, Mechanical Turk and
• More on self-recommending decision theories — Curious whether a decision theory would pick itself? I compute outcomes across 194,481 two-world decision problems, util
• Reviving an old argument for Conditionalization — A stubborn puzzle about the Bayesian norm of Conditionalization. I revive and refine our old argument, showing how Creda
• Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness? — What if conscious experience isn't simply on or off? I revisit Global Workspace Theory and whether we can introspectivel
• Hell has more than 7 circles you guys — Pop quiz: how many circles does Hell actually have? I made a graphic from the Google Books ngram dataset as an excuse fo
• Tomorrow might too late — I reflect on why putting things off until tomorrow can cost us more than we think. I share how procrastination, hesitati