I’m Georgia. I crosspost some of my writings from eukaryotewritesblog.com.
eukaryote(Georgia Ray)
There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
Spaghetti Towers
Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness
Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon
The funnel of human experience
Caring less
Who invented knitting? The plot thickens
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology
Tiddlywiki for organizing notes and research
Book review: Cuisine and Empire
A brief authorial take—I think this post has aged well, although as with Caring Less (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dPLSxceMtnQN2mCxL/caring-less), this was an abstract piece and I didn’t make any particular claims here.
I’m so glad that A) this was popular B) I wasn’t making up a new word for a concept that most people already know by a different name, which I think will send you to at least the first layer of Discourse Hell on its own.
I’ve met at least one person in the community who said they knew and thought about this post a lot, well before they’d met me, which was cool.
I think this website doesn’t recognize the value of bad hand-drawn graphics for communicating abstract concepts (except for Garrabrant and assorted other AI safety people, whose posts are too technical for me to read but who I support wholly.) I’m guessing that the graphics helped this piece, or at least got more people to look at it.
I do wish I’d included more examples of spaghetti towers, but I knew that before posting it, and this was an instance of “getting something out is better than making it perfect.”
I’ve planned on doing followups in the same sort of abstract style as this piece, like methods I’ve run into for getting around spaghetti towers. (Modularization, swailing, documentation.) I hopefully will do that some day. If anyone wants to help brainstorm examples, hit me up and I may or may not get back to you.
This is a really touching tribute. I’m so sorry.
How to make a giant whiteboard for $14 (plus nails)
Global insect declines: Why aren’t we all dead yet?
Missing dog reasoning
I don’t love this thread—your first comment reads like you’re correcting me on something or saying I got something important philosophically wrong, and then you just expand on part of what I wrote with fancier language. The actual “correction”, if there is one, is down the thread and about a single word used in a minor part of the article, which, by your own findings, I am using in a common way and you are using in an idiosyncratic way. …It seems like a shoehorn for your pet philosophical stance. (I suppose I do at least appreciate you confining the inevitable “What are Women Really” tie-ins to your own thread, because boy howdy, do I not want that here.)
To be clear, the expansion was in fact good, it’s the unsupported framing as a correction that I take issue with. This wouldn’t normally bother me enough to remark on, but it’s by far the top-rated comment, and you know everyone loves a first-comment correction, so I thought I should put it out there.- 16 May 2021 2:12 UTC; 9 points) 's comment on Containment Thread on the Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda by (
I get that we all want understanding in a situation like this but let’s not go after people’s appearances, cripes. Most people look weird in one way or another and are gonna be fine to sit next to on a bus. Come on.