Dragon Rage (PS2): Inferring the Wheat from the Chaff
A lot of my video game reviews take cult classics or marginal examples of the medium and inject enormous meaning into them in a way that is bound to read as...
The trajectory of secondary psychosis in individuals and groups
I’ve identified four stages to secondary (environmentally obtained) psychosis: The false self: A person grows up learning to act entirely according to an...
Mickey 17: Unrestrained optimism, real problems
Bong Hoon Jo is a great film maker, but he is not cynical enough. In Mickey 17, a great problem is articulated: the apex of new human technological capacity...
In the Lost Lands: Not even empty symbolism
George RR Marin is in collect a paycheck mode and Paul W.S. Anderson is in Paul W.S Anderson mode in what has to be the most complete and brazen use of green...
Armored Core VI: Three Endings
Spoilers follow: Armored Core VI is about war. It’s about samsara, the intrinsic fact of conflict and suffering in the universe. And it’s about how these...
Short summary of life's work
Infohazards are not hazardous because they are accepted At root, all allocation of scarce resources rests on the elevation of one subjective preference above...
The Worldview of Wings of Fire
Spoilers follow Wings of Fire, by Tui T. Sutherland, is more than a book series about dragons. It is a razor sharp collection of insights into the...
Cosmic Trainwreck
Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation | Science TimesDiscover how AI and brain implants are...
I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons: A Brief Review
Spoilers follow There’s something in the air lately. People are rediscovering how to be cruel. At a time of multiple genocides, extreme aggression across...
Explicit Redlines for Conservatives
-Conservatives think utilitarian value should be constrained by human tradition -I think that transgenderism and queerness are traditional -If conservatives...
Ought is a subset of Is
You cannot derive an ought from an is, and most people who attempt to do so end up looking very stupid. But it turns out you don't need to. Philosophy...
The Color Out of Space: Review and Polemics
The Color Out of Space is good. It is appropriate to Lovecraftian themes. It sets up a lot of familiar human meaning: a child's innocence, a father's...
Dragonsphere Report moving to Buttondown
I am moving most of my writing to Buttondown. I may make occasional Substack posts still solely for the purpose of yelling angrily at a politically...
There's No Such Thing as a Transgender Person
It's just basic math
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Assorted Dragonsphere Iconography
I am not good at graphic design, but periodically I grab things off the internet and stitch them together to try to point to the idea of The Dragonsphere....
Natalism, Potentia, and Pascal's Mugging
Why combining utilitarian ethics and religious metaphysics is exploitable
Hell Simulation Watch #2
Cruel meta-jokes by an omnipotent basilisk
The Totient Star: A symbol of aspiration
Secure simulations offer opportunities for experimentation and liberty