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Welcome to the site of a wandering mind.

I can't know how this will turn out, but I imagine I will be writing about some combination of things related to science, philosophy, roguelikes, and whatever else my mind has wandered to recently. See here for the archive of all my blog posts, or below for the most recent ones.

Recent posts

• Some thoughts on the Tao Te Ching - January 14, 2024
  Wherein I talk about Taoism, and then present the result of my attempt to engage with a large language model to generate a novel arrangement of the Tao Te Ching.
• Meta post - update II - October 28, 2023
  Update - link section updated, and some personal comments.
• The case against the existential danger of an intelligence explosion - May 31, 2023
  Wherein I attempt to assuage my terror at the possibility of a fast artificial general intelligence takeoff by grasping at what may be straws.
• Short story review - The Mold of Yancy - March 2, 2023
  Wherein I use the vehicle of a short story I read recently to present some thoughts about the relationship between social media and totalitarianism.
• Geometric algebra and classical mechanics - December 25, 2022
  An elementary introduction to geometric algebra, with examples of applications to problems from classical mechanics.
• Ruminations on explaining oneself - November 5, 2022
  Wherein I introduce a fictional scenario, and then ruminate upon various facts in a vague and general manner.
• The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid - July 30, 2022
  A personal take on what went wrong - feel free to skip this if you've read Animal Farm
• Book review - Civilization and Its Discontents - May 22, 2022
  A somewhat disorganised review of a classic, but also somewhat disorganised, book about psychoanalysis.
• On being mentally unwell - part 2 - February 2, 2022
  A disjointed post briefly touching upon different topics that are thematically linked.
• On being mentally unwell - part 1 - February 2, 2022
  Where I write about anxiety, depression, and mental illness in general. Includes a healthy dose of speculation and several analogies, which some may find misleading.