Posts in category: philosophy
- Two forms of reasoning: Deductive and Inductive
- Correlation is not causation
- Emergent qualities in complex systems
- What's the value of the humanities for society?
- Simulation Hypothesis: Mysticism dressed up for the secular age
- Simulation Hypothesis: Contesting on Merits
- The Philosophy of Descartes (1596-1650)
- Do questions like "what's the nature of..." make sense to begin with?
- Russell's Paradox
- Socrates the First Western Myth
- Science Is Different
- Enlightened Self-Interest
- Unverifiable Claims Are Noise
- "What's the test?" and "What's the alternative?"
- A correct computer program and a sound argument piece are the same
- Finding Signal with Counterfactual Thinking
- The Pillars of Scientific Thinking
- "And you are the easiest person to fool"
- We See the World Through Mental Models
- Approaching Programming From First Principles
- Our Institutions Transcend Ourselves
- Suffering Comes From Wishing For Things To Be Different From What They Are
- How Can We Know Anything?
- Como Podemos Saber Algo?
- Ancient Stoic philosophy and modern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- What is Stoicism? -- The Little Book of Stoicism