Author: Jo

• November 7, 2021

  What is steelmanning?

  Aristotle once said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” To me, this is what intellectual honesty primarily consists of. Too often, people get stuck in their own beliefs and are totally incapable of even articulating an opponent’s point of view. Of course, this…
• October 23, 2021

  Why start a blog?

  Somebody once said, “I write to discover what I think.” A cursory DuckDuckGo search did not yield the source of this quote, but it really does encapsulate the main reason why I’ve decided to launch a blog. For a while now, I have been considering the idea of launching a podcast, and although that is…