An experimental personal conceptual knowledgebase.
A blog-based commonplace book.
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11, 2016
Copernican principle
It's probably nothing special.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle
5
11, 2016
Pessimistic meta-induction from the history of ideas
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal [...]
2
11, 2016
Design via Variation With Selection
Design = fitness for purpose.Evolution via natural selection is the [...]
7
09, 2016
Capitalism + Patrimony –> Plutocracy
R > G: The Return to capital exceeds the economic [...]
31
08, 2016
Psychological Flow state characteristics
“There are clear goals every step of the way.” “There is [...]
13
06, 2016
The double movement of Critical Thinking
Inductive inference + Deductive proof:"There is thus a double movement [...]
13
06, 2016
Schopenhauer on the psychology of Stoicism / The First Noble Truth of Buddhism
"But if we have recognized that pain as such is [...]
13
06, 2016
The Principle of Sufficient Reason
Causality is a metaphysical assumption.Leucippus: Naught happens for nothing, but [...]
8
06, 2016
strong opinions, weakly held
A pithy formulation of establishing clear, falsifiable hypotheses to allow [...]
25
05, 2016
Free will is won by grit, not given by God
In the context of the phenomenal world, taken as hierarchical, [...]