Author: Matthew Exon
Advice
I dig through the bucket of turds that is a Jordan Peterson video for the plastic novelty ring of useful advice buried therein.
Sheep
I provide my response to a challenge of a viable model of a space colony. The answer, in a nutshell, is sheep.
Gaming the System
Musing on the failure of LLMs to handle mathematics problems.
White Smoke
I’ve written a script to turn on a light either red or blue depending on the US election result. I have reasons for this. They are obscure. I felt the need to elaborate and defend my life choices.
Y2K
I yell at the “Y2K was a hoax” myth. This might be ancient history, but I was there, and I saw what I saw.
Voting
My choices in the UK general election 2024, weighing up tactical voting, expressive voting, and the Paradox of Voting.
Decades
Hypothesis: the reason there has been so much talk recently about generations such as “millenials” is that we forgot how to talk about decades. And that’s because the years from 2000 to 2019 simply didn’t have good decade names.
Underpopulation
I am bothered by the implications of the ongoing demographic transition on our culture of innovation and personal freedom. Just don’t accuse me of pro-natalism.
The Culture War Mechanism
Simon Wren-Lewis describes how the Conservative Party in the UK moved right on social issues to win elections, even though that moved them further from the centre. Which sounds impossible. This post uses a simple geometric model to show how that could work.