Ying Liang Zhang·Oct 6Reading Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games: Why Migration Management Looks Like a Finite GameI recently read James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games. A finite game is like a race: the rules are fixed, the players are labelled by…
Nick Williams·Aug 2Notes from the Grey WorldWe all get drawn into the Grey World, one way or another. We can’t help it — there is a current that inexorably pulls us in, in such a way…
Nick Williams·May 7Life In The Formal Realm Isn’t LifeIn the Formal World there is no such thing as free will — obviously there can’t be or else there be nothing ‘formal’ about it. Formal means…A response icon1
Nick Williams·Feb 13Obeying The RulesIn the Equilibrium Realm reality is always exactly what the External Authority says it is. That’s the very definition of reality when we’re…
Nick Williams·Dec 10, 2025Psychological Bootstrapping [Part 2]A very basic — the most basic — form of psychological bootstrapping is where we do a thing and then say that we didn’t do it, that it was…
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