Commander Zander

Epistemic status: Flippant, but do you have a better plan? Step 1: Land a mining research robot in a lunar polar crater Step 2: Start 2 robotic lunar strip mines * Humanity should have 2 of everything, for competition & redundancy Step 3: Launch unprocessed lunar resources into lunar orbit...

Epistemic status: A concretizing sketch exploring a vague idea. A recent podcast[1] floated the idea of legally entitling everyone to the proceeds of a fraction of the Sun. Here are my early thoughts on how that might work. The idea is that, many decades or centuries from now, a majority...

Inventing the Renaissance is a 2025 pop history book by historian of ideas Ada Palmer. I'm someone who rarely completes nonfic books, but i finished this one & got a lot of new perspectives out of it. It's a fun read! I tried this book after attending a talk by...

Content warning: If questioning what is real is queasy or difficult for you right now, you are welcome to skip this post. It's only valuable to people who enjoy this topic, don't worry. Epistemic status: Opinion about philosophy. This argument convinces me, but i could change my mind. Floating on...

Is there a URL for a RSS feed for all my LessWrong posts? I haven't found such a thing yet. I found some old comments about it but they appear to be out of date: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zo462cTMBYsc45foA/rss-feeds-are-fixed-and-should-be-properly-functional-this

(Epistemic status: This is a work of fiction.) Hello! Thank you for your presence. For this class, all you need is a mat & a bipedal morphology. Whether you're wearing your birth body, a grown body, or a prosthetic body, whether you're running on neurons or silicon, whether you're embodied...

I often hear people say consciousness is a phenomenon that urgently needs deeper understanding. Yet the word consciousness is a major source of the confusion. I'm trying to replace it with clearer words in my conversations. Often, in both mainstream & rationalist contexts, i encounter people with these different definitions...