Impromptus

I’ve figured out my philosophy: Life is very complicated and contradictory, and that is okay. As a matter of fact, not only is it okay, it is actually essential to the whole endeavor. This sounds flippant, but it actually has real-world implications, which is essential for any philosophy if it is to be more than [...]

Here’s a fun hypothesis founded on some ideas: Democracy and freedom are desireable conditions. There exist income distributions that are incompatible with democracy – consider a society where one person has more wealth than everyone else put together. The game theory optimal thing to do is for everyone to vote to take that person’s money. [...]

Economists pretend that people have perfectly free will and that all choices are volitional. Psychologists pretend that almost every action has an underlying pathology and that free will is, at best, only a half truth. Because neither field has been completely discredited, the truth must lie somewhere in the middle. But if the truth is [...]