Richard Henage

Bike locks are a good example. There are twenty bikes at the bike rack in the parking lot. Some bike riders decide to buy bike locks for their bikes to protect them from theft. But this just means that the thieves steal other, unprotected bikes from the rack. The problem...

If we don't have free will, we're just minds stuck inside (biological) robot bodies and brains. Some argue that this would mean that there's no point in trying to determine which courses of action are right, or what facts are true, since we wouldn't have control over how we behave...

If you work for free, you're doing whoever you're working for a favor. If you work for money but never spend it, you're doing the world a favor[1]. Except... When you buy someone's goods or services for their set price, you're doing them a favor. When you work for someone...

Rabbit said to Wolf, "I shall make a new animal. It shall stand on two legs and run free across meadows and mountains." Wolf said, "I will send large beasts to eat your new animal." Rabbit said, "My animal shall band together and fight off even large beasts. They shall...

These are things I've been thinking about when trying to decide if I should get cryonics. I've sometimes gotten the sense that some rationalists think this is a no-brainer. But since it's a $100k+ decision, I think it deserves quite a bit of thinking. So here is my list of...

I've talked about movies before, so I guess I'll continue with that. I spoke with someone who seemed to distrust the people that decide which movies win the Academy Awards (at the time of writing, it's a group of over 7,000 people who have to have movie credits and be...