Let’s take a break from the insanity and wade into cool waters to start the weekend. I’ll take it that you’ve watched this video, which purports to give a solution to Newcomb’s […]
A Twist In A Solution To Newcomb’s Paradox
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 shown that […]
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 not yet […]
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 1950s. […]
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 of logical […]
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 he will […]
Is A Material Bearer of Consciousness Intelligible? Part 2 — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
See Part I here. In this essay, I will summarize and expound more on the “divisible parts problem” in materialism and why the concept of the soul (or ‘mental substance’) avoids this […]
Biden Cancels Debates — — Soon
Wait a second. “Biden Cancels Debates” won’t be the headline. Instead, it will be “Biden’s Forced To Cancel Debate Amidst Corondoom Fears.” Or “Credible Security Threats Forces Debates Cancellation”. Or “Citing Trump’s […]
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