Conversational menu
Stuff I’m happy to talk about approximately always and wherever. Roughly descending order according to my interest (but only roughly and my relative interest fluctuates, probably especially for the less-subjectively-interesting things).
- Alignment, agent foundations.
- Math and logic, in particular:
- Category theory.
- Non-classical logics.
- Philosophy, in particular:
- Metaethics, metacognition, metamathematics; epistemology.
- Philosophy of mathematics, (evolutionary) biology, science.
- History, in particular:
- Alternative history, pivotal historical events (e.g. Siege of Jerusalem 701 BC).
- Pre-Columbian America.
- Interesting/inspiring historical characters (e.g. TR, Ikkyū).
- Rationality. Fixing and optimizing life. Practical wisdom.
- Languages (dead and living, formal and informal, natural and artificial).
- Psychonautics.
- Classical psychedelics (esp. DMT).
- Some other drugs: Salvia, Kratom.
- Whatever you find in my favorite stuff page, especially fiction (or whatever adjacent stuff you know about that I may or may not know about).