Archive - Buster's Rickshaw

Self-replicating AI robot recipe update

Updating some of my speculative posts from 2013 and 2016 now that all of this is feeling a lot more possible

Jun 6 •

March 2025

What are your beliefs about the nature of reality?

Discover your cosmic worldview with this short two-step interview

Mar 18 •

June 2022

👋 Hello! I turned 46. Here's my annual review and re-introduction.

I've done these every year for the last 16 years, and use it as a time to update my book of beliefs, my life in weeks, and to come up with a new word…

Jun 2, 2022 •

February 2021

What's the first big thing you'd like to do after the pandemic is over?

How we think about this question might reveal something interesting about our shared mood in this moment.

Feb 2, 2021 •

January 2021

Visualizing our shared mood, take one

Results from the question about how we can best help

Jan 28, 2021 •

A house covered in kudzu

A return after 8 months of quiet with questions about a question

Jan 11, 2021 •

April 2020

One meaningful thing

A space within upheaval.

Apr 8, 2020 •

January 2020

Why We Should Create Personal Mythologies (and How)

An experiment in using mythic mode to confront the meaning crisis.

Jan 23, 2020

Snake Fables, Book I

A few prototype myths offered as an experiment in designing a personal mythology.

Jan 23, 2020

And how to unask that question.

Jan 16, 2020 •

Goals vs opponent processes

Jan 14, 2020 •

On dragons and dark forests

Congrats, Jon Bell, you just killed the dragon (metaphor).

Jan 4, 2020 •

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