I am now only months behind in answering emails. I have a string of excellent questions from readers that I will try to get to at weeks’ end. From reader S: “I […]
Do Most People Enter Philosophy Already Atheist?
Cognitive Bayes & Rationality: Why Theoretical Explanations Charging People With Conspiracy Theories Fails
Fun quiz time! This is some data: x = c(0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1). Something caused that data to be. I know what it is, but you […]
A Simple Proof Mathematics Is Discovered And Not Invented
This came up in an email thread, but for the life of me I can’t find it. Since this is the second email (thread) from a colleague I have lost in as […]
Dear Quacks & Experts: Your Loss Function Is Not Our Loss Function
Note to the colleague who wrote me. I lost your email! You asked excellent questions about the post Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix, which I meant to answer, […]
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 […]
Why (Scott Alexander’s) Bayesian Rationality Fails
Scott Alexander, late of Slate Star Codex, and New York Times doxee, is the subject of Curtis Yarvin nee Moldbug’s latest. Rather, Alexander’s (and Moldbug’s? see postscript) Bayesian rationality is. The rationality […]
Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix
A PDF of this article may be downloaded here. This article is a precis of Uncertainty. Opening Act Patient walks into the doctor and says, “Doc, I saw that new ad. The […]
Brian Cox Proves Why Scientists Should Never Be Asked Questions About The Soul
Celebrity physicist Brian Cox said he thinks science has shown men do not have souls. According to the Express, he said on the Joe Rogan show that there is “no measurable evidence […]
Recent Comments