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Tag Archives: rationality
Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor
I. From Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self by John Perry: “There is something about practical things that knocks us off our philosophical high horses. Perhaps Heraclitus really thought he couldn’t step in the same river twice. Perhaps he even … Continue reading
Getting Eulered
There is an apocryphal story about the visit of the great atheist philosopher Diderot to the Russian court. Diderot was quite the clever debater, and soon this scandalous new atheism thing was the talk of St. Petersburg. This offended reigning … Continue reading
Random Noise Is Our Most Valuable Resource
Yesterday I suggested that it will be surprisingly easy to build “creative” computers, because what we think of as “creativity” is just a temporary suppression of our mind’s inbuilt tendency to avoid unusual thoughts that violate its accustomed pattern. A … Continue reading
Unspoken Ground Assumptions Of Discussion
To say a thing is implicitly to claim to believe it. This has chilling effects on one’s exercise of free speech. — @fakeysaysthings 1. Are you trying to present the correct balance between positions (“judge mode”) or present one side … Continue reading
HeartMath Considered Incoherent
[Note: all opinions expressed here are my own. Nothing to be taken as medical advice.] This is not a skeptic blog and I find much skeptic-blogging distasteful. But as the saying sort of goes: “You may not be interested in … Continue reading
CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
I am going to do something very dangerous today, something that makes me acutely aware of my own mortality. I am going to disagree with Robin Hanson. In my defense, he wrote an entire blog post called Don’t Be ‘Rationalist’. … Continue reading
Don’t Be An Asch-Hole
Contrary to the direction the comments took, my Asch story the other day wasn’t intended to make any special commentary on families. That was just the first issue I thought of that wasn’t already so politicized that the story would … Continue reading
Asches to Asches
[Content note: fictional story contains gaslighting-type elements. May induce Cartesian skepticism] You wake up in one of those pod things like in The Matrix. There’s a woman standing in front of you, wearing a lab coat, holding a clipboard. “Hi,” … Continue reading