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An Ecology of Contrarians
Four strategies for breaking consensus
Oct 1 • 
David Mc
Anarchy and Order
Why consent, not chaos, defines true anarchy
Oct 1 • 
David Mc

September 2025

Mind Viruses
How Noble Ideals Become the Most Dangerous Ideologies
Sep 30 • 
David Mc
Dialectic Catalysts in the Wild
A case study from quantum complexity theory
Sep 29 • 
David Mc
The Case for Reality
Mapping Hoffman’s illusions against the hidden background assumptions
Sep 28 • 
David Mc
Ornament and Advantage
Costly Signaling in Evolution and Education
Sep 28 • 
David Mc
Navigating The Multiverse
Moral Reasoning under Everettian Quantum Mechanics
Sep 27 • 
David Mc
The Ethics of Affluence
Why prosperity destroys meaning only when we fail to seek worthy struggles.
Sep 27 • 
David Mc
The Fragility of Rights
On the collapse of law into mere permission
Sep 24 • 
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Steelman Analysis of Yudkowsky & Soares’ Cruxes
Sep 23 • 
David Mc
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Why Does Ice Float?
Chaos, Coherence, and the Ruliad Hierarchy
Sep 21 • 
David Mc
Entangled Truths
Why Leibniz’s necessary/contingent divide collapses under Conditionalism
Sep 20 • 
David Mc
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