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Kenny Collins

What you want, what we want

What does it mean to want something?

4 min readDec 21, 2023

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What you want, what we want

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Kenny Collins

Process? Based

Being results-based means you are more focused and concerned about the consequences of some event.

4 min readJun 16, 2023

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Process? Based

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Kenny Collins

With Causal Power Comes Moral Responsibility

Peter heard the gunshot and somehow already knew what had happened. He ran over to see a man lying on the sidewalk, his shirt covered in…

5 min readFeb 24, 2023

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With Causal Power Comes Moral Responsibility

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Kenny Collins

The Backward Law that is Backwards Law

One’s life is about setting goals for oneself and going out and achieving them. But life is not so simple. To restate the same concept a…

4 min readDec 10, 2022

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The Backward Law that is Backwards Law

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Kenny Collins

Imperfectly Correlated (as all things should be)

People often make the mistake of thinking variables are perfectly correlated, or perfectly uncorrelated.

3 min readNov 24, 2022

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Imperfectly Correlated (as all things should be)

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Kenny Collins

Peter and Valentine: Dopamine Tubes

Peter: Hey Val, I’ve been thinking about this hypothetical. Imagine you were given the option to use a dopamine tube. For the rest of your…

5 min readNov 3, 2022

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Peter and Valentine: Dopamine Tubes

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Kenny Collins

Rootless Rationales and Harpless Harpsichords

Once upon a time, in a world far enough removed from our own so not to anger any music historians, there was a village full of vibrant…

7 min readAug 13, 2022

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Rootless Rationales and Harpless Harpsichords

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Kenny Collins

MaaS (Morality as a strategy)

Is the good “good and just” because God wills it or does God will it because it is good and just?

6 min readJul 30, 2022

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MaaS (Morality as a strategy)

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Kenny Collins

Are ya optimizing for the right game, son?

I walked into a room and saw two men seated on opposite sides of a table with a board on top. They were taking turns sliding wooden pieces…

9 min readJul 23, 2022

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Are ya optimizing for the right game, son?

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Kenny Collins

Law of EAS

The universe is a complicated place. Despite our best attempts to model and predict it, there are exceptions to our rules, uncertainty in…

3 min readJul 16, 2022

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Law of EAS

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Kenny Collins

Kenny Collins

This blog does not claim to be an account of facts but of personal opinions, and it is my personal opinion that this blog is an account of facts.

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