The Meat Paradox Makes You Want To Slap Vegans: Expert
Here’s a needless headline: The hidden biases that drive anti-vegan hatred. There are nothing hidden about the bias against vegans. People love to moan that vegans are annoying: research has…
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Dissolving & Not Resolving The Fermi Paradox
Paper by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University made the news last week. “Dissolving the Fermi Paradox“, on Arxiv (and therefore…
UFOs: Solution Of Fermi Paradox Or One-World Government Wedge? Update
UFOs–in the public imagination, at least—came in four waves. Although there were other incidents well before this time, and in many places, the first big push in the States was…
The Unexpected Hanging Paradox
From reader Neil Taylor comes the request we examine the unexpected hanging paradox. I’m stealing from Wikipedia, which stole a version from Wolfram. A judge tells a condemned prisoner that…
All Of The Supposed Paradoxes About The Principle Of Indifference Are Bogus
Here is an example of a supposed paradox caused by using Keyne’s Principle of Indifference, which Stove and others (and myself) call the Statistical Syllogism (itself deduced from the symmetry…
Fermi’s Paradox & Gaian Bottlenecks
Democracy (the system) is enough to account for the seeming alien life-form which is Hillary and for whatever that thing is on Trump’s head. But as queer as Democracy is…
The Religion Of Man Triumphant
The almost-blessed Archbishop Fulton J Sheen gave us in 1947 a paradox. He said then “that we are definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization”. This was…
Is Time Travel Metaphysically Possible? — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Before answering the question, I will define the different meanings of the word “possible”. In philosophy, there are different senses of the word “possible”. Besides, it’s good to know the…
