Decisions, decisions:

Aporal is a blog focused on how people make decisions, find meaning, and improve the world.

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Meaning in our lives

Whether starting businesses or starting PhDs, what is the process by which we decide which to pursue?  This is a combination of identity, experience, and forecasting.  Which factors are determinate?

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords

We are rapidly approaching a future in which analysis, thought, and labor are all common enough to devalue human work.  In our lifetimes, how do we make this transition a wonderful one?  And who are we when it's complete?

Diversity of solutions

Though we celebrate diversity in people and process, habits that encourage diverse answers are often called biases since they don't converge on optimality.  How do we measure the social benefit to sub-optimal decisions?

What makes thought possible?

There's a rich heritage of contemplating what makes thought possible, but new efforts to create thinking machines change the scope of the problem.  What can we learn about ourselves from programming machines?