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“Am I the only neurotypical person on the internet?”
Guzey’s Misquotes Re: Walker
Don’t Take Fallibilism Too Far
Do Objectivists Attribute Moral Value to Animals?
“Who Is Henry Galt?”
What Proves the Theory of Evolution?
What Are Examples of Cultural Evolution in Animals?
How Is It That Our Own Brains Are ‘Black Boxes’ to Us?
Could Human Intelligence Be Considered the ‘Best’ or ‘Ultimate’ Adaptation?
How I Quote
“Why is human evolution so interesting to learn about and study?”
Evidence of Animal Insentience
Software License for Objectivists
Can You Create Life in a Lab?
“Has the human brain evolved over thousands of years?”
Why Do Humans Have Fewer Genes than Flies?
Mysticism and the Mathematicians’ Misconception
Don’t Bulk and Cut
Setting Up a Heroku Root Domain with Squarespace Domains
Investigating Hayek’s Misquotes
The Enlightenment Case against Public Property
The Injustice of Pacifism
Key Insights from Kevin Samuels
Taking Anne Frank Seriously
Honesty and Popperian Epistemology
“An Objectivist Refutation of Anarcho-Capitalism”
Bodybuilding as Art
“Should there be a process of relieving bad parents from their children?”
This Ramadan, Remember to Take Jihadists Seriously
Basic Safety Guide for Men
A Better Way to Generate the Fibonacci Sequence
I Don’t Get the Hype around GPT-4
“Would it be right to have a constitution you couldn’t change?”
“How do you deal with irrationality from family and friends?”
Sam Altman’s Hidden Motive
Why Are People Afraid to Form Their Own Judgment?
“6 year old won’t go to the bathroom by herself anymore, because of being scared. What to do?”
Enabling UJS in Rails 7
Conditional Femininity
Don’t Date Single Mothers
“How can I help my 5yo feel more in control of her life”
How Is Spanking Still Legal?
Objectivist Institutes Suck at Quoting
Introducing: Quote Checker
Camera Not Showing Anything in Unity 2D? Try This Simple Fix.
Core Objectivist Values
Mentzer’s Consolidated Routine
Mentzer’s Ideal Weightlifting Routine
Pre-exhaust Training
The Mind as a Courtroom
Some Lessons in (Dis)honesty
In Defense of TCS
Criticisms of Atlas Shrugged
Was Ayn Rand a Hypocrite for Collecting Social Security?
When Can Parents Use Force?
But You’re Not a Parent!
Unwanted Protection is Oppression
Charity vs Justice
Criticism of Kolya Wolf’s ‘Against ego-centric epistemology’
The ‘Right’ to Education Is Bad
Ist es notwendig, Autorität abzulehnen?
Society Depends on School
Food Safety without Government
A Woman’s Plight to Choose
My Thoughts on xAI
Is Sanctioned Force Still Force?
The Easiest Way to Find All Permutations… Is Counting?!
Example of Not Outthinking the Question
Outthinking the Question
Schlaue Frauen
So When Can a Woman ‘Date Up’?
Olaf Klonus ist ein schlechter Versicherungsmakler
Can You Refute This?
These Two Mistakes Led to a Grueling Divorce
War-Poster Analysis
How to Open ml5js.org without Supporting BLM
Where’s David Deutsch’s Accountability?
What Would Popper Have Said about Covid Scientism?
A Critical Reading of Karl Popper on the Necessity of Critical Discussion
What’s the Issue with Hypergamy?
Don’t Use Text Messages for Two-Factor Authentication
Crypto-Fallibilism
Discussion with Amaro and Dirk about Copyright
Minefeld
Women, Don’t Divorce after a Promotion
On Deutsch and Naval
Conscription Is Not Defensive Coercion
Don’t Be Fooled by Zelensky
ChatGPT Is a Feminist Tool
Why Do Younger Women Typically Date Older Men?
Chat about Male-Female Dynamics
Men Have No Reproductive Rights
Die Folgen unserer Ideen aus der Kindheit
Uncontroversial
Mind Reading
Help: My Kid Doesn’t Want to Be Vegan Anymore!
Ungenutzte Cover-Ideen für Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit
How to Delete All User-Defined Routines in PostgreSQL
Why I Mirror My Tweets – and Why You Should, Too
Why Doesn’t Angier Use the Machine Only Once?
Don’t Trust Screenshots of Browsers
Handy Git Commands
Starting Over
Ein Traum von Sokrates
Inwiefern stellt ein Kompromiss keine echte Lösung dar?
Simple Way to Get Rid of Smelly Feet
Boundaries
Unconflicted
Wie erzieht man ein Kind zum Glauben an die Freiheit?
Klärung der Frage, was ich mit ›Zwang‹ meine
Die gesellschaftliche, erzieherische, wirtschaftliche und politische Unterdrückung von Kindern
Explain Irrational Minds!
Do Children Owe Their Parents?
Fehler in Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit
Fallibility Table
The Religion of Terror
In Solidarity with Salman Rushdie
Quick Security Tip
Criticism of David Deutsch’s ‘Taking Children Seriously and fallibilism’
Don’t Use Square
Looking Cute
Change Twitter Links to Improve Your Privacy
Wash Organic Produce
Crazy
(Potential) Errors in The Beginning of Infinity
Popper’s Criterion Is Insufficient
Sleepwalking
Chat with Damian about Abortion
Death Sentence
Your audio devices might divulge your private information. Here’s how to protect yourself.
Wer soll über die Kinder herrschen?
‘Noise-Canceling’ Headphones
Brain Maturity
Wrong-Number Pattern
Covid Exile
Kinder ernst nehmen – Interview
Ukraine
Recording, Sending, and Receiving Audio Using JavaScript
Brain-Half Nonsense
Images and Privacy for the Web
Astrid Lindgren’s Never Violence!
Notable Quotes about Authority
School Can’t Be about Learning
My Response to a Google Recruiter
Negative Weights
Neues Buch: Könnte das auch anders sein?
What’s an Explanation?
Give a Man a Mirror…
Sleep Hangups
Chat with Amaro and Sashin about Animal Sentience
Lying Little Injun
Extracting References from HTML in Rails
Views on Animal Sentience in The Beginning of Infinity
Leave Austria NOW
Chapter Order in The Beginning of Infinity
Lockdowns Are a Collectivist-Altruist Nightmare
Second Interview with David Deutsch / Zweites Interview mit David Deutsch
The Strongest and Weakest Argument
Government and Parenting
Konrad Lorenz Hacked Animals
Why Do People Make Mistakes?
Choosing between Theories
Fauci vs Beagle Puppies
Breaking Out of Frames in Unity
Pathfinding in Unity
Controlling a Character’s Movements in Unity
Being a Beginner Again
A Programmer’s Guide to Revolutions
Animal-Sentience Discussion Tree
Animal-Sentience FAQ
English Transcript of German Interview with David Deutsch
Hyphenation Rules Are Confusing
The Beginning of Infinity → Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit
What Christians Get Right
What Makes Creative Computer Programs Different from Non-creative Ones?
The ‘Animal-Rights’ Community Is Based on Fear and Intimidation
Simple JavaScript Recursion without Stack Consumption
Evidence Is Ambiguous
Buggy Dogs
Snake
Violent Paternalism
A Quick Proof That Problems Are Inevitable
Discounting Future Knowledge
True Controversial Ideas
Two Guesses About Creativity
Programming in Strings
Objectivism vs. the Myth of the Framework
A Comprehensive Guide to Eric Weinstein’s Paper on Geometric Unity
Analyzing The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
Teachers Who “Take Children Seriously”
Meme Replication vs. Idea Replication
Competence First, Incentives Second
Taking Ideas Seriously
Wealth Tax Is Evil
Sending Emails in Production using Rails, Heroku, and MailGun
Setting Sublime Text as Git Editor
Tally in Ruby vs. Clojure
Lockdowns: Science vs. Morals
Governments Are Involuntary
Running Custom Logic in Rails Devise Controller
Want to Learn about AGI? Read These Chapters from “The Beginning of Infinity”
Using Rails Production Credentials with Heroku
Reduce Need Not Be Hard
How to Use the Proper Mood in English-to-German Translations
Santa Clara County’s Immoral Health Order
Libertarian FAQ
A Truth Commission is Tyrannical
Two Razors to Quickly Evaluate Any Theory of the Mind
The True Purpose of Schools
Balinski and Young—beyond Elections
Forced to Freedom
What to Do in the Face of Corporate Wokeism
This Mask Replacement Will Change Your Life
Scientific American?
Three Revolutionary Ideas
“The Brain Works in Mysterious Ways”
The Tragedy of Children Becoming Teachers
The Descent into Mediocrity Continues
Anyone Can Become a Developer — Here’s How I Did It
The Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind
The Case against Commas and Operators
Preserving the Common-Sense Definition of Racism
How Do Some Peaceful Ideas Result in Violent Protests?
Guaranteeing Referential Transparency
What Is the Difference Between a Person and a Recording of That Person?
Do Explain Episode 11 — A Window on Intelligence, with Dennis Hackethal — Transcript
New Domain
New Landing Page and Navbar Design
Domain and Markdown
Another Update on the Discussion Site
Update on the Discussion Site
Highlighting Arbitrary Passages
Neat Clojure Function
Discussions Revisited
Recovering from Blindness