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www.lesswrong.com | ||
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,... | |
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metarationality.com
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| | | | | The epistemological categories-truth, belief, inference-are richer, more complex, diverse, and nebulous than rationalism supposes. | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | People who grow up believing certain things,even if they later stop believing them,may not quite realize how the beliefs sound to outsiders... Joseph: Mary, my dearest fiancée, there's something I've been meaning to talk to you about. Joseph: You seem to be getting fat around the waistline, and throwing up in the morning, and, er, not getting any periods. Which is odd, because it's sort of like - Mary: Yes! I'm pregnant! All right? I'm PREGNANT! Joseph: How is that possible? | |
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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | An interesting article byJonathan Borwein and David H. Bailey on why science needs philosophy. When renowned scientists now talk seriously about millions of multiverses, the old question "are we alone?" gets a whole new meaning. Our ever-expanding universe is incomprehensibly large - and its rate of growth is apparently accelerating - but if so it's... | ||
