Questions

Questions I'm currently exploring and thinking about, excluding the ones related to Anrok.

2025

What makes something memetic?

Some ideas spread fast and linger across generations. What makes these concepts - like the Golden Rule, Invisible Hand, American Dream - propagate?

2024

Can big technological change be peaceful?

Technological progress has historically been a source for good. How do we avoid violence when change happens more quickly than we can adapt?

2024

What do thoughts feel like before one has language?

Our capacity for thought and mental processing exists before and beyond language (e.g. 6 month old infant). Can you process a complex thought without language?