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This is called “game denial”. Yet the game is always on. Examples of game denial: free immigration for all, communism, universal basic income, everyone is equal, unconditional pacifism, a lot of feminism. (Yet pure “game acceptance” is equally wrong, of course.) What is “game

“Yet, many of us frequently fall victim to what I call “game denial”: the inability to perceive, or a negligence of, the logical and behavioral rules that regulate human relations. Game denial is when you ignore or “wish away” certain uncomfortable truths regarding human

We are now halfway through 2025 and it's time for the monthly birth update. For the overwhelming number of countries that have provided data so far, 2025 will bring yet another significant decline of the birth rate.

The Kübler-Ross model of grief is great. I’ve not found the experience to be linear, especially where acceptance is concerned. My own perspective is closer to the Dual Process Theory, where we bounce between the expression of grief and building a new life in a different world.

The unique piece Sylphide by Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Tsisaryk is located in Lviv

Not very subtle.

Proverbs 31:17 She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.

This is extremely funny with the added context.

I’m struck by how profoundly non-humanistic many AI leaders sound. - Sutton sees us as transitional artifacts - x-risk/EA types reduce the human good to bare survival or aggregates of pleasure and pain - e/accs reduce us to variables in a thermodynamic equation - Alex Wang calls

It's nice that Roko's Basilisk has chosen one victim to absorb all of our sins🙏

Something is happening at the New York Times op-ed page.

This is the first World Population Day in history where the global fertility rate has dropped below replacement level—a quiet but historic milestone. The averages hide stark regional disparities. In all of Europe for example, populations are not just slowing—they’re shrinking.

Anna Riedl The irony here being that World Population Day was established to spread awareness of the human population reaching all time highs… The call to action was reducing fertility rates below replacement. So in effect, this is less of an alarm bell than a “mission accomplished”

There is an inherent asymmetry between maintaining the ground we stand on and improving the state of the world for the better. Everything you take for granted and stop maintaining will deteriorate and be lost. For example every new generation is born ignorant, it takes just one

When I was younger I got myself overweight through cardio. I’d just run on barely any food to “burn off fat”, but regularly my body would rebel and I’d eat huge amounts of food. It’s extremely difficult to outrun calories, in fact most bodybuilders I know recommend walking over