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2026 6

  1. A World of "Forms": Was Plato Mad?
  2. Consciousness Is Not Physical.
  3. Can AI ever really be "Open Source?"
  4. Buying Land Is Still in Your Reach.
  5. For Christ's Sake or For Mine?
  6. Disenchantment With the Post-AI Internet

2025 1

  1. Science of the Gaps

2024 2

  1. Miracles and Black Swans
  2. John Searle and Daniel Dennett on Consciousness

2023 1

  1. Consciousness and Materialism

2022 9

  1. Why I Won't Go to Restaurants in 2023
  2. Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist
  3. Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker
  4. 'Based' Paganism vs. Christianity
  5. Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It.
  6. The hardest technical solutions are right in front of your face.
  7. Never Trust Custodial Crypto
  8. On the "Hate Speech" Psy-op
  9. Not Even Libertarians Believe in Libertarianism

2021 11

  1. Obscenities are symptoms of weak minds.
  2. Every Web Browser Absolutely Sucks.
  3. Matrix vs. XMPP
  4. Modern "Freedom" Means Being a Slave to Impulses
  5. Conspiratorial Thinking and "Multiple Outs"
  6. Monero and Other Privacy Coins
  7. Monero Maximalism: Or, How Bitcoin Is a 💩coin
  8. We Want Our 4 Causes Back!
  9. Wanna Learn LaTeX?
  10. Veganism Is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism
  11. Why It's Bad to Have High GDP

2020 14

  1. Advice on Some Other Languages
  2. Command Line Bibles
  3. Learn Chinese
  4. Learn Latin
  5. Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)
  6. Notes on Learning Languages
  7. Only Use Old Computers!
  8. Reviews of All Linux Distros (That Matter)
  9. Science vs. Soyence
  10. The Fragility of Physics
  11. The Parable of Alien Chess
  12. Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses
  13. Politics matters most to slaves.
  14. Why do I so rarely talk about politics on my channel?

2019 1

  1. In Defense of "Pseudoscience"

2016 1

  1. How an Open Media Makes People More Dogmatic

2015 1

  1. The Problems with Utilitarianism

2013 1

  1. "I Have Nothing to Hide" and Comments on Totalitarianism

2012 1

  1. Why People Do or Do Not Leave Religion

2011 1

  1. Why Modern Art Is So Awful