Lies and Wonderland

muflax hath written unto you...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

2012/02/04: Finally pushed some changes.

Also improved the site’s design somewhat. Larger articles now have a table of contents and general navigation is more visible. The main column moved to the left to accomodate for the new navigation bar. To make feedback easier, I’ve added a comment box. (Web 2.0! We still care about this, right guys? Guys?) I also accept anonymous feedback about anything. (Yes, anything.)

Drafts are now semi-integrated into the site. The are reachable if you know the address, but they don’t show up on the index pages. That way I can still reference them or let someone read early versions without having to hide them.

The RSS feed now has a link to each new article as it appears as well as to this changelog. That way I don’t have to announce everything manually.

I’ll soon(tm) port the Wordpress Blog over to nanoc as well. Once everything is static content (besides the comments), I’ll change hosts to NFS.net.

I’ve begun writing an Antinatalism Overview. It will cover many (all?) arguments for and against bringing life into existence. It’s hopefully more approachable than the scattered philosophy material on the topic and will eventually be more rigorous than existing overviews. I got fed up with opponents of antinatalism constantly misrepresenting its arguments, and antinatalists not making all their assumptions explicit.

Contrary to mainstream philosophy, I also included some common transhumanist replies to the arguments. I try not to push my own view too much, but I’m also adding my own commentary to it. Anything else would be dishonest. Regardless, it’s not yet finished, but “release early, release often”, right? It’s maybe 30% done and has already ~7k words. Maybe I’ll write a summary of the summary, too.

I’m also collecting antinatalism memes and quotes in the Antinatalism Tumblr.

More overviews are coming. Soon-ish. If I don’t get bored, that is. Basically, the languages articles are’t happening, Great Filter is somewhat delayed and an informal introduction to Solomonoff Induction and Kolmogorov Complexity is coming This Month(tm).

I’ve also begun writing an overview about New Testament scholarship, mostly to collect interesting theories and keep all the names straight. It will be months until it will actually be useful, but I have time.

I’ve moved some stuff from the Blog into proper articles. Content didn’t change in case you read them already. The other posts will also be converted once I transition away from the blog. Articles: Backups, Developing Synesthesia, Dude, Where’s My Time?!, On Samsara, Persinger’s Magnetic Field Hypothesis, Three Sides, Why Can’t I See Through This Wall?, Why I’m Not a Vegetarian.

The categories have also changed to accomodate the new writing.

Why I'm Not a Vegetarian

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

New Page: Why I'm Not a Vegetarian

Backups

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

New Page: Backups

Phaidros (D&Dis character)

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200

New Page: Phaidros (D&Dis character)

muflax hath written unto you...

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

2011/09/04: Converted whole site to nanoc. Most of the content got re-organized, but not widely changed. A few things have disappeared, but will probably come back in a better form later. The design is reasonably the same, with some minor tweaks. The navigation bar is now at the bottom to deal with some footnote issues.

Every page has an Epistemic State now. This is an important step to convert this into proper long-term content. Sites are also dated now, so that some obviously out-dated material is clearly visible as such (and new material is obvious on the main page).

I added the story Milinda and the Minotaur I wrote some time ago, but never felt like publishing. Thanks to epistemic states though, I now can.

I do plan articles on the Great Filter and languages (use and learning), but dunno how long this’ll take. For now, this is mostly a setup to make it really easy for me to write more stuff and release faster. I have a couple of drafts lying around I might revive, particularly a comparison of the Theravada path model of enlightenment with the Matrix movie.

(I also threw away the old changelog because it’s useless now anyway. Check the git history if you care.)