Rebel Humanist

This is the storage place for my longform thoughts, organized in the Table of Contents here. You should just go read there. Most of these...

HIVLI I've seen in the rationalistsphere a lot of dividing people into binary personality models, that are useful and different fro...

It is a common piece of advice in these parts to "treat people like ends, not an object." (Especially dating advice.) Even if you ...

I've been thinking about the endless war between Modernism and Post-Modernism. Not even a debate, since so much of the discussion is abo...

Watching RRR - which is a maximalist Indian film about the conflict between utilitarianism and deontic ethics - reminded me that ye olde “vi...

  (Is no one going to make the obvious joke?) Anyway, "popularism" is the hot button term among lefty technocratic circles popular...

I want to talk about two terms that are very weighty in a *moral* sense, but I believe should be looked at as neutral in *ethical* senses....