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I wasn't asked, but I'll answer it anyway. Like Emil Kirkegaard, I would also like to preface this by noting that the order in which I read any particular book is also very important in terms of its "influence" by me. For instance, Arthur Jensen's The g Factor and Steven Pinker's Blank Slate are both... Read More
I am basically at the stage where I find reading paper books to be almost physically painful. I can do it if I have to but given the choice I'd much rather do in my tablet's Kindle app or even as a PDF file. I'd positively hate to be in an non-cyberpunk apocalypse by now.... Read More
Over the past week I've completed one of my most significant projects, though I'm not megalomaniac enough to think it will present much interest to other people. It's a list of all the books I've ever read. Well, not all of them, of course. That's unrealistic. Since completing it, I've remembered a couple more. But... Read More
I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.
One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.
Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.