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Impossible Fairness

An illustration of the difficulties of making a system that simultaneously satisfies everything our intuition attaches to 'fairness.'

Why these and not those?
The anthropic principle: five short examples

When is it okay to reason from the anthropic principle? Please help.

Experimental evolutionary psychology
Mongoose Simulator 2019

My greatest creation.

Verses on COVID-19

Poetry I will regret.

Mildly against COVID risk budgets

Under what circumstances does a 'COVID risk budget' make sense?

Hypertime
Quantum without complication

What does quantum mechanics look like in the simplest possible universe that still has something clearly quantum-shaped?