Some days I think I should just go work in a hut somewhere on an island and leav

Some days I think I should just go work in a hut somewhere on an island and leave my work for posterity to judge, appreciate or discard. Other days I see ripples of what little I have done over the past year alone affecting people that don’t even know me. Other days I get messages from friends that do know me that mean I have an impact on their lives. And it’s those things that make me care enough about people so that I **DON’T** go sit on a beach somewhere.

Today is a good day. Thank all of you who help me on the journey. Especially the people who constantly challenge me. At least, those who challenge me with worthy ideas – I have to admit that while I try to never give up, I am getting tired of silly arguments – but I know that if I cannot answer silly arguments convincingly that I have not reduced the ideas to something digestible. Conversely, I’m disheartened by all the extant ideas that are too hard to grasp as it is. Or that cannot be grasped because they conflict with our intuitions, and often with our self image, and even more often with our strategies.

I am too conscious at this point of how great a leap it is. Ethics and institutions are one thing. But error reduction by moral constraint is just going to be one of those things that is an uncomfortable and undesirable truth.