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On Plato (Ongoing)
Footnotes. 1.
Slightly less than truths. IV-V.

Series on Epistemology and Math (Ongoing)
Euthyphro Dilemmas as Mathematical Objects
On a Particularly Difficult Question
Platonism without Plato

Uruk Machines
(Index)
Introduction, and Baudelaire
Man as a Rationalist Animal – Seeing Like a State
The Meridian of Her Greatness – The Great Transformation
Scraps 2, on Seeing Like a State and The Great Transformation
The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life
Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil. – The True Believer
Scraps on Hoffer – The True Believer
A Taylorism for All Seasons – The Culture of Narcissism
Reinventing the Wheel of Fortune – The Culture of Narcissism pt. 2
That’s Amore – The Culture of Narcissism pt. 3, final, the Lasch Laugh
The Uruk Machine – recap
The Thresher – finale

Social States
On Social States
Theses on Social Currency (clarification on the first piece)
Publicani in Berkeley
Social Laffer Curves that go for a thousand screaming years.
Identity is the enemy. Finale.

By Date

2018

8/22 – Love and Happiness
8/3 – Slightly less than truths. IV-V.
7/15 – Footnotes. 1.
5/31 – Science Cannot Count to Red. That’s Probably Fine.
5/19 – Science Under High Modernism
5/4 – Two
4/8 – Democracy Scales Are Still Bad, and Four Panicked Suggestions
3/26 – Enter a search term, e.g. “democracy”
3/7 – Everything is Going According to Plan
2/13 – In which there are ghosts
1/26 – Platonism without Plato
1/7 – On a Particularly Difficult Question
1/2 – Aeon Piece (meta post)

2017

12/19 – Euthyphro Dilemmas as Mathematical Objects
12/3 – Links and Thanks
11/20 – Banish Plump Mouse Deer and Banish All the World
10/30 – Notes on Values
10/13 – The Guardian’s Inferno
10/5 – Disambiguation on the Stone
10/2 – Selection Bias in the Quarry
9/19 – Propositions on Immortality
9/05 – Metapost, September 5th
8/28 – The Thresher
8/28 – The Uruk Machine
8/12 – That’s Amore
8/1 – Reinventing the Wheel of Fortune
7/19 – A Taylorism for All Seasons
7/7 – Scraps 3: Hoffer and Performance Art
6/28 – Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil.
6/19 – The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life
6/8 – Scraps 2: Metis, Mirrors, and Martin Guerre
6/1 – The Meridian of Her Greatness
5/22 – Man as a Rationalist Animal
5/8 – Introduction, and Baudelaire
4/21 – How to fail.
4/15 – Scraps I: Collapse/Austen/Spengler/Cowen
4/4 – Mumble on linguistic relativity
3/30 – Follow-up on aesthetics and information.
3/22 – Memetics and Memorization: A Critical Review of Both
3/14 – Identity is the enemy. Finale.
2/28 – Social Laffer Curves that go for a thousand screaming years.  
2/21 – Publicani in Berkeley
2/7 – Toolkit: Links 2/7                                   
2/6 – Theses on Social Currency
2/1 – On Social States
1/20 – Foucault, Scoundrel1/18 – Truth and Lies in a HyperNormal Sense
1/16 – God of the Gaps: A Psalm

2016

12/13 – Four Questions
11/27 – Why We Talk About Economics
11/16 – Samuel’s Data