Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
— Clarence Darrow
Bee over at Backreaction had a post last week on Max Tegmark: Discover Interview with Tegmark, and I would like to respond to some things said there and in a previous post by Bee on the topic. (The Tegmark paper on “The Mathematical Universe” can be found on arxiv.org.) Does the theory warrant further scrutiny? [...]
I will duplicate some of my longer comments on OB here on my blog, as I’m not sure if all my readers are reading OB on a regular basis, and tracking comments there is difficult anyway. The post concerned (it’s not long): Overcoming Bias: Tyler Vid on Disagreement The sentence I disagree with is this: [...]
This is a good development: Towards a Psychology of Philosophy? A question that I find particularly interesting is, do attitudes about science, such as naturalism vs. anti-naturalism, correlate with levels of scientific education and talent for science and math? Could it be that one factor behind the (seemingly prejudicial) anti-naturalist attitudes that are still very [...]
This post of Eli has many links and may be a good occasion for delving into some of the issues he has been talking about lately. Overcoming Bias: Heading Toward Morality Why? Because that is the conclusion he is drawing to: Artificial Intelligence melts people’s brains. Metamorality melts people’s brains. Trying to think about AI [...]
There’s a blog entry at FXQI by William Orem nicely summing up a few points which are important to me: FQXi Community: Articles, Forums, Blogs, News First of all, much of confusion in Western Philosophy and thinking can be dissolved by looking beyond our culture – in that way we can see what are only [...]
Long awaited, finally arrived: a list of all of Eli’s posts and a dependency graph!! Eliezer’s OB Posts Dependency Graphs Great resource for newcomers and oldtimers. Technorati Tags: rationality
I have updated my thesis outline here. I think that it’s now pretty stable: I have one and half years of reading behind me, and the transformations have been considerable (my starting point was agent-based modelling – you would never believe it when reading it now). But the structure now contains the arguments which are [...]
