Again, I'm going to bring this apple to the Big Apple next week. Let me know via DM if you want to meet up in NYC.

Matthew 7:16?

It is what it is. [Erich Fried or alternatively recent meme video]

The world is all that is the case. [Wittgenstein]

Other than that there will never be one theory of everything. Any theory relies on abstraction and therefore simplification or reduction. This means it has to

Institutional drift seems so common that perhaps we should assume it's the default. Instead of taking institutions at their word when they point to their long and impressive histories, we should treat them as identical with what they've done in the past year.

Liv Boeree Great topic! My team and I used to have to assess this kind of issue in our past sustainable development work: what negative externalities could come about from positive interventions? Sometimes they could be deadly, which is heartbreaking.

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by じゃがりきん.

Mutuals (and mutuals to be) in NYC beginning of May, message me to meet in real life.

The problem is not per se the attempt of „being more rational“ in political matters, but that a priori scientific ideas follow the evolutionary principle of most turning out wrong. Being truly rational and scientific means understanding that most ideas in the scientific domain

One way of defending a position is laying out arguments in favor of it, another one - often overlooked in the heat of the disagreement - is laying out the raw data of how you arrived at it: stories.

What exactly did you experience or see with your own eyes, that changed your

A side project I've been building lately. I built a neural net with Tensorflow and trained it on the MNIST dataset of handwritten images. Then, I brought the model into Blender and used the values to turn it into a 3D scene. This is actually the model running!

Understanding meta-rationality depends on a web of mutually-dependent novel concepts, so everything has to get explained before everything else.

The standard solution is 'multiple passes over the material in increasing depth'; but, like, five of them??
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When you have to apply theory of mind to determine whether others know what a Schelling point is (they don’t, or maybe they know it’s a different person)

Then again there could be a universal maxim whom to pick

mutuals in Dubai for Token2049, DM me

(aiming for the Bitcoin Halving Party by @velarbtc on Friday)

If I was a psych/CogSci professor I’d show this TikTok in my behaviorism class 🤯

'Relevance Realization turns ill-defined problems into well-defined ones, transforms large worlds into small, translates intangible semantics into formalized syntax'
It is a crucial ability for organisms to make sense of their environment and act accordingly.

Kant's 300th birthday the week after next will be phenomenal. How will you celebrate?