Archive - Good Optics

Review of Brakke's Gnosticism Lectures

I've decided to learn more about religion because (1) one of my biggest objection to theism is basically the theodicy issue, but there many proposed…

Feb 25, 2023 •

Fun with comparative advantage

A friend recommended Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok's introductory economics textbook, Modern Principles of Economics, to me.

Feb 5, 2023 •

September 2022

Welfare State Futurism

If technological progress continues, AI will eventually be able to replace all human labor.

Sep 4, 2022 •

May 2022

Homunculi and Moral Demandingness

All sensible people care non-instrumentally about things that happen in the world outside of themselves. Would you prefer that there be more or less…

May 18, 2022 •

April 2022

Why Oligarchy is better than Dictatorship

In a dictatorship, the leader can do whatever he wants.

Apr 28, 2022 •

A big picture reason for pessimism about existential risk

Apr 22, 2022 •

March 2022

February 2022

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