The following is a fable on the dangers of measures becoming targets, originally posted to my blog in Medium. All illustrations are AI-generated, but none of the text is.
When on a crisp spring night you look at a night sky, you can see countless stars, each with their own planetary systems. But there are also planets without suns, forever bound to travel across space in darkness. What if such a planet developed intelligent life? Let’s imagine so, for it may help us find answers to an important question.
You have now left Earth, and landed on Tempus Vagaris, a planet without a sun. But... (read 1184 more words →)
Hi LessWrong! I am Ville, I have been reading LW / ACX and other rationalish content for a while and was thinking of joining into the conversation. I have been writing on Medium previously, but have been struggling with the sheer amount of clickbait and low-effort content on the platform. I also don't really write frequently enough to justify a Substack or other dedicated personal blog.
However as LW has a very high standard for content, I am unsure if my writing would be something people here would enjoy. Most recently, I wrote a series of two fables about the risks of measures becoming targets, concerning search engine optimisation and biological clocks. These... (read more)