And the word was "God"
I want to explore a word that seems to be very triggering, and thereby somehow very important, in our culture: the word God. Whether you...
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Pavel Chvykov
- Mar 26, 2022
- 3 min
Magic, tricks, and high-dimensional configuration spaces
What is a magic trick? Any complex system, such as our world, may be described in terms of its numerous degrees of freedom, each...
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Pavel Chvykov
- Jan 23, 2022
- 4 min
Emotional Microscope
Seeing is believing. Before we could accept the germ theory of disease, we had to invent the microscope to directly see the culprits of...
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Pavel Chvykov
- Jan 13, 2022
- 2 min
Doing “good”
I just did my first substantial donation (informed by Effective Altruism, and my own work on complex social systems). Even though I have...
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Pavel Chvykov
- Aug 16, 2021
- 4 min
A gentle apocalypse
Is robots taking over the world bad? Some of the AI-risk scenarios I’ve read almost feel like it’s inevitable — and I’ve been wondering...
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Pavel Chvykov
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
Mindfulness as debugging
Are mindfulness practices just attempts to reverse-engineer our brain’s compression algorithms? Photo by Yu Hai on Unsplash I was...
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Pavel Chvykov
- Apr 4, 2021
- 2 min
Our compressed perception
One of the most important and amazing feats that our brain learns to do in this complex world is to find compressed representations of...
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Pavel Chvykov
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
What is magic?
Don’t know about you, but I’ve always wanted to discover real magic in this world. Recently, I was trying to formulate this desire more...
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Pavel Chvykov
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
Is Santa real?
Just wanted to take a break to sprinkle some magic into this blog ;P Well as it happens, I have always believed in Santa. Perhaps thanks...
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