[ The graph’s x-axis shows the
GSS WORDSUM
score, which is a vocabulary-based intelligence proxy (correlated at .71).
The y-axis shows percentage of people with that score. ]

Given how little Americans value education t…

I’ve been having a long-running debate with two other hardcore gamer friends
of mine about a comment that was made a couple years ago about Starcraft 2.
The game had just come out and the three of us were chatting about it when
they…

A great feature of Game of Thrones is that it teaches us about reality while
it entertains. One example is illustrating how so few people are purely good
or evil. Even those we consider purely good or evil are actually, under a
k…

I realized recently that I value most those who are able to step outside
convention when living their lives. The most powerful manifestation of this
is being acutely aware of why one does what one does. Examples include
questioni…

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Me: “Dude, you’re like the master of hyperbole.”Him: “I’m
actually the absolute worst at everything.”Me: “What about false
humility?”Him: “I’m ok at that.”

Two of my friends (Carl and David) and I have been having a long email
debate about free will. They believe in it. I don’t.

It’s been going on for multiple years now so I won’t attempt to summarize
here. But recently there …

I have a friend who is getting into OS X for the first time after being a
lifetime poweruser in Windows. He has a number of valid complaints, and I
wonder what the official OS X fanboy answers are.

[ Note: I’m an OS X fanboy. ]
…

For most of human history people have been wrong about Earth’s place in the
universe. Some thought we were the only thing here, others thought we were
at the center of many things. But it wasn’t until very recently that we have
c…

I apologize for being so late to the game here, but aren’t the Buddhist
concepts of Karma and the inevitable unfolding of the universe inconsistent?

Or, to state it differently, if there is no free choice, and life is simply
…