What Are You Doing Here?
I've delayed writing on this blog for an entire two months. On reflection, this was a bad idea which I will be rectifying at once. I delayed in order to compose a suitable first post, a post which would encapsulate the blog's purpose in a pithy manner. After all, Scott Alexander did it . Twice . I suppose that tips my hand. This is a blog about whatever this blog is about. Probably a mix of rationality, metarationality, amateur philosophy, statistics and cultural commentary. My biggest inspiration in blogging is Scott, followed by David Chapman, Jacob Falkovich, and Robin Hanson. They mark the heights I strive to reach. Solomon's Cairn is a partial anagram of my name, Nicolas Roman. In the Hebrew tradition, King Solomon was a wise and mighty monarch, last to rule over his kingdom, and later associated with occultism. A cairn is a pile of stones stacked atop one another, used both to indicate places of ceremonial importance and to mark trails through difficult terrain devo...