I've long felt that there's something about working through logic (particularly mathematical logic) that is clarifying for thought in ways that turning the formal crank more generally isn't... like having to prove out an actual argument form using only syntactic rules is forceful learning

Tell us about the singer songwriters who hurt you, Jonathan

"Coming back to life" is also surprising because it's nothing like them and also great

Most underrated Floyd album

thank you for your careful engagement with the arguments of the paper...

I'm seeing this, too!

"the bar is on the floor and, if you're going to make it in the hard tech era, you can no longer ooze under it"

Can we talk about how fantastic that grounds crew is? Look at that cut!

Tennis one point, no difference. Chess a pawn, game over. White moves twice initially, game over. Black gets two moves after white's first move... I thought I could just set that up on the computer but it occurred to me that if black knows they'd get to move twice, then they might find a novel first

... though behavioral economists suspect that this may not be optimal

I'll buy you both a pint just 'cause