I have now had a few years of experience doing architectural and interior design for many spaces that people seem to really love (most widely known Lighthaven, but before that we also had the Lightcone Offices, though I’ve also played a hand in designi…
Epistemic status: Completely schizo galaxy-brained theoryLightcone[1] operates on a “generalist” philosophy. Most of our full-time staff have the title “generalist”, and in any given year they work on a wide variety of tasks — from software development…
(Written quickly for Inkhaven, I hope someone someday makes a better case for this than I will here)Kelsey Piper on Twitter: me: it’s not okay to hit your sister5yo: is it okay to kill Vladimir Putin?me: …yes, if you were in a situation where it was …
Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post, so today we are re-inventing modernism.In my post yesterday, I said: Maybe the most important way ambitious, smart, and wise people leave the world worse off…
Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post. So today we are re-inventing federalism.Once upon a time there was a great king. He ruled his kingdom with wisdom and economically literate policies, and pro…