opiate abuse
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On Constantine Cavafy’s ‘Body, Remember,’ and the mutability of memory.
Would your life be better if you mistakenly believed in past triumph?
addiction, alcoholism, Aliki Barnstone, assault, beer, Body Remember, Boltzmann brain, brain, Brett Kavanaugh, CBT, cognition, cognitive behavioral therapy, consciousness, Constantine Cavafy, drinking problem, episodic memory, Exhalation, failed seduction, Flirtation, incarceration, jail poetry, jail poetry workshop, Kavanaugh, Last Gods, mass incarceration, memory, misremembrance, missed connections, mutability of memory, opiate abuse, opiates, poetry, problem drinking, recovery, recovery from addiction, Remember Body, risque poetry, seduction, sexual aggression, sexual assault, sexy poetry, sultry poetry, Supreme Court, teaching in jail, Ted Chiang, Truth of Fact Truth of Feeling, violative assault
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On fairness (and how we treat the utility monster).
How do you measure someone’s capacity for joy? And what does that say about our opiate epidemic?
animal welfare, Betham, competetive equilibrium, distribution of resources, distribution of wealth, economics, equality, evolution, fairness, heroin, heroin epidemic, human evolution, mass incarceration, Milton Friedman, moral philosophy, natural selection, negative externalities, opiate abuse, opiate epidemic, opportunity, Pareto optimal, Pareto optimality, political philosophy, survival of the fittest, tax policy, utilitarian, utilitarianism, utility monster, utility theory, War on Drugs
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On bitcoins and privacy.
Bitcoins: either I or other people were suffering from some fundamental misunderstandings.
antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Bitcoins, black markets, blockchain, Canadian pharmaceuticals, civil liberties, cost of medicine, cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., drugs, economics, freedom of speech, GHB, gun control, healthcare spending in the U.S., how anonymous are bitcoins?, how could the government protect your property rights if they don’t know what you own, how much computer power would it take for someone to steal your bitcoins?, imported pharmaceuticals, John Bohannon, law enforcement, legalized drugs, legalizing drugs, monetary policy, money supply, opiate abuse, ownership, ownership by majority vote, policing, prescription drugs, privacy, property rights, Ross Ulbricht, senseless regulation, Shadow, ShadowCash, speculation, The Silk Road, transaction log, War on Drugs, wealth, what makes a law just
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