I love podcasts.

I think one of the most dangerous ways to think of the future is to assume that human nature is fundamentally good, peaceful and cooperative. And that the only reason there's evil, war and competitive behaviors is due to perverse incentives and corrupt institutions. There's literally no reason to believe this is true. It's seductive to think it true, because then you can simply focus on fixing those incentives and tearing down corrupt institutions. But it's a false promise to think there's this tied-up box of goodness waiting to escape on the other side. Some people think this is cynical. I just thinks it's realistic. There is no destination for us. There's only the journey.

My new personal thing is training myself to be comfortable with boredom. When I'm feeling bored, I avoid reaching for my phone or go on my computer. I just try to sit with it.

At the end of the day, what haven't NIMBYs ruined?

The Espionage Act of 1917, allows for secret trials and secret evidence. Such things have no place in an open society. The Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees a right to a *public* trial. This, the law is unconstitutional on its face, and should be struck down.

No human has ever seen what the world really looks like. We've only seen how bundles of neurons make sense of the electrical impulses from the photons hitting the back of our retina, sending signals down the optic nerve. If you saw the world the way it looks in totality, when you looked up in the night sky, you wouldn't see blackness. If your eyes were sensitive to infrared light, radio frequencies, microwaves, ultraviolet and the entire electromagnetic spectrum, you'd see a universe glowing brilliantly above you. Yet we see but a tiny sliver of what we call "visible light". It is strange that our intuition is that the human eye is the gold standard for visual perception of reality, when it sees so little of it.

We're all here by accident.