We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.