A conversation sometimes had in hospitals. Your brain wants to protect you. This is good, and we mostly try to encourage brains when they do that. Sometimes brains get it wrong. See, because when something bad happens, the world can feel like a scary, unpredictable place.

Diams; February 23, 2017. The following is a long excerpt from an unpublished paper I wrote in 2012-2013, mostly before I was enmeshed in rationality-community ideas. Absurd than the two alternatives.

In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging. Effective altruism is becoming more and more about funding computer science research to forestall an artificial intelligence provoked apocalypse. Here is the latest effective altruist survey.

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics. The theory claims that observing reality fundamentally changes it. And tracked those who were.

I take a very firm line on insults. The problem here is not ableist language. The problem here is ableist beliefs and values.

What is Eclampsia Anyway? How to Avoid Gestational Diabetes. Epidural anaesthesia is a painkiller, usually clonidine in the case of childbirth, injected into the space between the vertebrae in the spinal cord.