Monthly Archives: June 2023

I want you to imagine you’re a peasant working your land somewhere in Sumeria circa 2,000 B.C. Your local king or satrap or whatever has a manic episode and decides to rebel against the Assyrians, and his little army slaughters … Continue reading →

This is a popular topic lately, so I thought I’d cut to the chase for those five of you out there who care to know. The problem isn’t industrialization or wealth or decadence, although that’s the proximal cause of the … Continue reading →

10 days ago Russia to open new Israel embassy branch in Jerusalemhttps://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-746552 Normalization? Or just some oddball coincidence that’s been in the works for ten years. I dunno. Saudi Arabia, China undermine US influence in Middle East – analystshttps://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-746217 This … Continue reading →

You know those stories where people who don’t like working together learn to work together because necessity demands it? In reality, people work together because of their temperament. People who don’t work together during peacetime become an even worse team … Continue reading →

Listen up kids, grandpa has a story. I’ve probably told it before several times, you repeat yourself a lot when you get older. Once upon a time, I quit college and quit working and did nothing for a week but … Continue reading →

Like prophets from the Old Testament we can be a bit prickly, but also like prophets from the Old Testament we’re a lot less prickly than you all deserve. It’s going to be like getting feedback on your math homework … Continue reading →

This is two weeks’ worth of notes, so hold on to your butts. Kiev denies reports intel chief is deadhttps://www.rt.com/russia/577521-kiev-deny-intelligence-chief-death/ The last time Budanov appeared in public was in video published by the GUR on May 29, a day before … Continue reading →

While listening to Warren and Emily talk about media production value on the most recent Modern Politics, it occurred to me that this idea could be generalized: So just find/replace ideas for nutrition and production value for taste. In the … Continue reading →

lololol somebody wrote thishttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect?fbclid=IwAR0j8T0WVY74CH9WfvknsCYQshATehEyTscX9VaUxky-AZ5DXR44ho-jid4 Goodness me. It never ceases to amaze me that people who are supposedly obsessed with philosophy problems related to consciousness have apparently never heard of the hard problem of consciousness. And that’s like, the first thing … Continue reading →

Background: https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2022/06/06/psychology-of-food-idea-followup-to-allen-carr-book-review/ Splitting the two primary considerations into “aesthetic experience” and “fuel for performance”, or “taste” and “nutrition” for short, I want to capture the idea that points for enjoying the taste are conditional on nutrition whereas you get points … Continue reading →