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Meta-rational pain management
Debugging your body when the supposed “healthcare system” fails you
Sep 15 • David Chapman
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Metaphysics misused in everyday life
Understanding how so much reasoning goes wrong, by analogy with mathematics
Sep 13 • David Chapman
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Vajra pride and the diversity of natural nobility
Just as you are, not anything special
Aug 14 • David Chapman
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Seeing like a Good King
Vision for nobility in an age of chaotic decline and unexpected possibilities
Jul 26 • David Chapman
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What's the connection between gender and meta-rationality?
Listen now | “I had never thought to ask that!”
Jun 26 • David Chapman and Charlie Awbery
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8:49
Leveraging lag: engineers and salespeople
Accelerating personal development with analogies between domains
Jun 19 • David Chapman
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Software engineers are eating the world
In ignorance of nobility.
May 26 • David Chapman
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Nobility: table of contents
Collecting the posts in my “nobility arc” on the wise and just use of power
May 23 • David Chapman
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Ofermōd
Building a bridge across postmodern nihilism to nobility
May 13 • David Chapman
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To keep priests in check: prefer nobility to churlishness
When secular authority fails to restrain virtue experts, vice signaling becomes tempting
May 5 • David Chapman
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12:49
Priests and Kings
The uneasy power balance between two elite classes, justified by virtue and nobility respectively
Apr 30 • David Chapman
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7:56
Nobility and virtue are distinct sorts of goodness
Social, cultural, and political troubles come from subordinating nobility to virtue.
Apr 28 • David Chapman
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