Archive - Cognition Café

The Fungible Threat to the Enlightenment Philosophy

About Freedom, Wealth Concentration, and the Separation of Power

Aug 21 •

How to Identify Futile Moral Debates

A small framework for identifying which moral discussions are worth having

Aug 18 •

The Formation of Unreflected Beliefs

On the fine balance between changing one's mind and getting mind-hacked.

Aug 16 •

The Experience of Obliviousness

How unreflected beliefs cause us to durably miss obvious things.

Aug 14 •

Games We Can't Win

When everyone loses: the shared structure behind wars, status games, and destructive competitions

Aug 11 •

On the nature of Stress, and a few pointers towards reliably managing it

Aug 6 •

July 2025

The Three Ideological Stances

How ideologies waste our time and that of their supporters

Jul 14 •

June 2025

Trying the Obvious Thing

A nice anti-troll defence mechanism

Jun 28 •

The Ideological Spiral

A natural consequence of living in a democracy

Jun 13 •

Excuses and foregone conclusions

In this post I talk about excuses.

Jun 9 •

May 2025

A Simple Case for Studying Morals

Morals are hard. Studying them improve things for everyone, collectively and individually.

May 22 •

AI Alignment based on Intentions does not work

Whether someone wants to be good to someone else, and whether they are actually good for them, are two very different questions.

May 20 •

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