Earlier this year, I wrote about perhaps one of my favorite movies of 2022, Charlotte Wells' "Aftersun," and how it masterfully weaves togethera story of grief and closure. An earlier draft of that piece included anecdotes from my life, and while my experience with losing a parent...
A while ago I got an unusually weird complaint about my blog – someone didn’t like that I used the word “meme” a lot when memetics was an “unproven theory”. I objected that it was less of a theory than an extended metaphor. Some of the work done at Less Wrong has either trie...