Monthly Archives: October 2019

When one has been persuaded of an extreme view there is a danger of over-reacting in the opposite direction and turning to believe everything that is said against it and also against less extreme versions of the same view. I … Continue reading →

UBI advocate, Scott Santens, has produced A Visual History of the #YangMediaBlackout  in which he shows many examples of what appears to be systematic ignoring of Andrew Yang’s campaign (esp by MSN). This seems to be an example of the … Continue reading →

I can imagine falling in a playground whose features I remember and where I undoubtedly may have fallen several times. If I do that repeatedly I can come to feel that the imagined event really happened exactly as I imagine … Continue reading →

“Now I’m awake, but the idea is gone.” Why came it upon me to type that just now? At first ’twas a puzzle, but now it has come to me. Like the guy in “Forgetting” I had sent me a … Continue reading →

This includes some bits that I find helpful for thinking about both Tiananmen and the recent rise of the populist right. Source: Development as a chapter in the moral tale of economics | Aeon Essays

Physicists brought up in the modern system will look into your eyes and explain with all sincerity that they’re not really interested in understanding how nature really works; they just want to successfully predict the outcomes of experiments. This would … Continue reading →

In almost any imaginable theory an experiment involves the preparation of a system in what we call a “state” and the subsequent observation of various quantities which we call “observables”. The observable quantities might be lengths, colours, states of matter, … Continue reading →

In the promo for his piece: Post-empirical science is an oxymoron, and it is dangerous | Aeon Essays , Jim Baggott is identified just as a “popular-science author”, but in fact he’s also a real scientist with research awards and applied … Continue reading →