❤️‍🔥 WONDERISM ❤️‍🔥 — my rough-sketch philosophy of Enlightenment and Romanticism, reason and feeling, science and art.

You were not made to darken

I like this: it takes a Canon 6D and a Newtonian lens to refute man’s oldest mysticism: the moon is colourful, not colourless; it is opaline, not porcelain; and it is only via science that we can appreciate a reality more vibrant than myth.

We thought people might benefit from a light webpage that defines, comments on, and offers examples for many of the words you'll see being used by our Fellows and Cofounders. So we created a Conjecture Institute Glossary. Enjoy! conjectureinstitute.com/glossary

“In order to be great, we must first be small. In order to be glory, we must first be refuse. In order to begin, heroically, the journey towards an unbounded wisdom, we must first stand, modestly, at the beginning of an infinite ignorance.” ~Conjecture Institute Fellow Tom Hyde

Mr Boyle is, of course, free to donate all his royalties to Indian film schools and remove his name from the credits in any re-release, or publicly petition studios and streaming services not to play the movie ever again. While we're at it, he's not Scottish, so he should

Odd that oil-rich Iran is so committed to nuclear energy that they bury production under a mountain.

“Thus I am turning the tables on those who think that observation must precede expectations and problems; and I even assert that for logical reasons, observation cannot be prior to all problems, although obviously it will often be prior to some problems—for example to those

I’m tired of people who don’t read history thinking these times are particularly bad. DELETE TIKTOK AND READ ABOUT GENGHIS KHAN, THE BLACK PLAGUE, THE 30 YEARS WAR, WORLD WAR 2, OR THE TAIPING REBELLION!!! Also, get off my lawn.

My pathway to understanding: I used to see Israel as the problem. I understood it as oppressive and uncaring: the aggressor in a conflict that should’ve long been resolved. I have come to realise that this was the easy view. The one handed down through the institutions and

Congratulations to Jeff Bezos on his wedding! He has earned his billions. Amazon has made my life appreciably better. Best store ever.

School is where you learn to be a phony.

Everyone hating on Jeff Bezos wedding but I ordered on Amazon at 10pm last night and it's at here at 9am this morning Enjoy your wedding king

Hear hear. Presidential Medal of Freedom now. What on Earth is the President waiting for?

This must hit so hard if you believe in literally just one of two things. Both of which are existential mistakes

OK now do extreme poverty. Which is more important to you?

Hey Jubilee you should have Yaron Brook on one of your episodes of Surrounded, where he debates 20 anti-capitalists in favor of capitalism

Panpsychism holds that consciousness, in some minimal form, is intrinsic to all matter. But if that’s true, what makes humans especially conscious? A planet has far more matter than a person. Does that make it more conscious? If not, what is it about people that makes the

My view is that consciousness arises from information processing. Humans have visual experience because eyes act like cameras, feeding data to the brain. That explains why a person has (visual) experiences and a planet doesn’t. If consciousness is information-based, we can skip

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