Sarabet Chang Yuye
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- Unfinished projects as resources, not failures
- Contraception introduces genetic selection for loving parenting
- Giving birth at the UW Montlake hospital
- Mar 2025: do babies in the womb hallucinate faces?
- I woke up from a dream where I was reading a POST request line by line
- The reactivity ratio limit in relationships
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Contraception introduces genetic selection for loving parenting
People used to have kids regardless of whether they wanted them; now there is selection for wanting children, which is correlated with being loving parents.Obvious civilizational inadequacy trains problem solvers
My attention was caught by this thing Gwern said when he was interviewed by Dwarkesh Patel: I have learned far more from editing Wikipedia than I learned from any of my school or college training. Everything I learned about writing I learned by editing Wikipedia.The Dreamtime
In the radioactive mantle of a nameless planet dwelled the kahaldans, who lived in an air bubble in the rock and coated its inner surface with glowing farms of fungi. They enjoyed making new kinds of sounds and naming things, and would have named their planet but for their total ignorance of what a planet was.Collapse of Complex Societies (Tainter)
Joseph Tainter’s explanation for why complex societies collapse in one sentence: the collapse of a society is a response to declining marginal returns on investment in complexity. Tainter uses ‘complexity’ pretty loosely.The Better Portrait
We didn’t stick around long enough to meet the aliens, but our dogs did.The democratization of destruction
I believe high-tech civilization will end within a century or two.