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www.lesswrong.com | ||
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | The core fallacy of anthropomorphism is expecting something to be predicted by the black box of your brain, when its casual structure is so different from that of a human brain, as to give you no license to expect any such thing. The Tragedy of Group Selectionism (as previously covered in the evolution sequence) was a rather extreme error by a group of early (pre-1966) biologists, including Wynne-Edwards, Allee, and Brereton among others, who believed that predators would voluntarily restrain their breeding to avoid overpopulating their habitat and exhausting the prey population. | |
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disagreeableme.blogspot.com
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| | | | | The anthropic principle has been much discussed and it is likely that you have already come across it. It's a strange and counter-intuit... | |
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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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eukaryotewritesblog.com
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| | | This is a rather utilitarian list of approaches to improving the lives of animals even if you still eat meat. Among other things, donating $100 to the right charity has the same impact as going vegetarian for thirteen years. | ||
