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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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edwardfeser.blogspot.com
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| | | | | I am, to say the very least, not a fan of Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and foreign policy. But his straightforwardly philosophical wo... | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | In "The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies", Daniel Dennett says: To date, several philosophers have told me that they plan to accept my challenge to offer a non-question-begging defense of zombies, but the only one I have seen so far involves postulating a "logically possible" but fantastic being - a descendent of Ned Block's Giant Lookup Table fantasy... A Giant Lookup Table, in programmer's parlance, is when you implement a function as a giant table of inputs and outputs, usually to save on runtime computation. If my program needs to know the multiplicative product of two inputs between 1 and 100, I can write a multiplication algorithm that computes each time the function is called, or I can precompute a Giant Lookup Table with 10,000 entries and two ... | |
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dabacon.org
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| | | O brave new quantum world! | ||
