micah zarin

Micah as a little kid, wearing sunglasses

chronically perceiving.

writing 54 on substack

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  1. MarrowThree boxes of bones were set down…
  2. Why Unemployment Will Reach Double Digits by 2029I Don't Have Four Years to Prepare for 2030
  3. Why You Should Talk To Crazy PeopleOn Crazy People
  4. Games (unlimited games) and no gamesBe careful what games you play
  5. On Effective Evil-ismAgainst amateur cruelty
  6. Is Morality Like Math?A ramble
  7. I Don’t Want to Live in the Moment
  8. Everyone Has Something Interesting to SayIn defense of everyone’s perspective
  9. why i HATE boris johnsona philosophical essay about love
  10. Reason Enoughwhy being poked in the shoulder is reason enough
44 older posts
  1. The Centers of AttentionWhat makes someone the center of attention?
  2. The Questions We Can’t AskOn Hyperpolation
  3. Why Philosophy Should Be PerformativeAgainst Boring Philosophy
  4. Thinking After AI
  5. The AI Acclimation Problem
  6. A 1:23 AM Rant About IndividualismNo man is an island.
  7. Take it Less SeriouslyOn Perfectionism
  8. The Other Side of Avoidance
  9. On Being Loved
  10. Beauty is a LoopholeThe Free Energy Principle
  11. What makes an idea beautiful?"I just feel like thinking about stuff is so fucking cool." - Micah Zarin
  12. Why Capitalism Fails Everyone (Even the Rich)A Critique of Hierarchy, Exploitation, and the Profit Motive
  13. The Phantoms We Speak ToOn How Our Friends Shape Us
  14. The Scams We Sell: On Stories, Meaning, and Happiness
  15. You Could Probably Only Beat a Chicken in a FightOn Conformity and Finding Your People
  16. Study Shows You Were Made for the 9–5, the Couch, and Very Little Else
  17. A Skholarly Disk-Horse on Langwidge
  18. The Role of Introspection
  19. Why Everyone Should Go Bald
  20. The Phrase is the Proof
  21. The Anxiety Rectangle
  22. The Most Useful Degree in an AI-Saturated World
  23. How to Speak So People Think
  24. Commit to the Bit
  25. The Children Yearn for Acid
  26. a case for intellectual drift
  27. why i write (even though i know better)
  28. The Ultimate Guide for Turning Brainwaves into 3D Models
  29. The Department of Understanding
  30. You Can’t Escape The Naturals!
  31. the god that cannot be defined.
  32. Intro to Proof-Based Mathematics & “Math Language”
  33. Force.
  34. Crows
  35. Applying What You Learn
  36. Piraha Language
  37. Human Brain vs Supercomputer
  38. Becoming Better at Math
  39. Is Math Really Real?
  40. It is Important to be Bored
  41. Goodhart’s Law – When Measures become Targets
  42. Serbian Climate
  43. Bouba & Kiki
  44. Bioluminescence

videos I ask people questions.

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from the old blog

highlighted = one of the good ones

  1. He Has Very Good Reasons · poems
  2. how scientists come up with formulas (free energy principle)
  3. mostly posting on substack now
  4. Just Grade Them By Parental Income · satire
  5. Boston: A Well Written Essay · satire
  6. To Write is to Think
  7. The Determinist’s Liberation
  8. Who Cares About Philosophy? · opinions
  9. why is there so much sex in literature? · opinions
  10. Love Spiral
  11. The Problem of Being a Mind
  12. the case against dying · opinions