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Proof Of Logic Dec 30
It used to be the case that if I paid attention, I'd often notice that I was playing music in my head, usually somewhat original (not just playing back exact recordings), and can add new instruments. So I find this a priori "not that hard". But of course that may not be typical.
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Proof Of Logic Dec 30
Or the music isn't very original. Also, maybe the precise notes aren't perfectly defined - that's sometimes true for me when I imagine music. But I think the whole thing quite plausible. Dreams generally involve much greater creativity than can easily be consciously manifested.
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Proof Of Logic Dec 24
Think what you will of the simulation hypothesis -- fiction is a biased sample, entirely favoring universes simulated at low fidelity and showing signs of a designer's hand.
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Proof Of Logic 7 Nov 18
Decision theory as the rigorous study of subjective solutions to ill-defined problems.
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Proof Of Logic 25 Oct 18
Replying to @preinfarction
Hard to say if the update has to be favorable for x on the whole, since this seems to be a logical-uncertainty update rather than a Bayesian update.
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Proof Of Logic 25 Oct 18
Replying to @preinfarction
So "x refutes its own justification" doesn't seem like an argument against x, rather, an argument against the position which the justification assumed - which will usually be an anti-x position, if the pyrrhonian example is typical. So, favourable sign for x.
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Proof Of Logic 25 Oct 18
Replying to @preinfarction
For example, pyrrhonian skepticism: if you buy an argument for it, then you don't buy any arguments for anything. It's a perfectly consistent position once you're there. The position you left, by buying the argument, must have been inconsistent tho.
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Proof Of Logic 27 Sep 18
Travel to a neighboring town. Treat it like a foreign country. Try to learn the language and customs. Make fast friends with the locals. Sample the food. Return home forever changed. Write a popular travel guide.
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Proof Of Logic 15 Jul 18
A serious meditative school based on Twitter.
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Proof Of Logic 19 Apr 18
Paying more than a dollar in a dollar auction doesn't automatically make you irrational. Only if you'd predictable do so. This is a bit similar to the observation that waiting time distributions in no way have to reduce expected time left as you wait.
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Proof Of Logic 2 Apr 18
It wouldn't be a cult if everyone would just get on board with it!
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Proof Of Logic 1 Apr 18
It's not called regulatory capture when the government is the one doing it.
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Dark Of Night 3 Mar 18
Some people will anthropomorphize anything, even their own children.
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Proof Of Logic 5 Mar 18
When you think a thing is antifragile, you shake it to help it.
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Proof Of Logic 25 Feb 18
"Grand unification is physics, not biology. Reductionism is physics, not biology"
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Proof Of Logic 22 Feb 18
Excited to be alive in fifty years when someone finally works out why p vs np was a fundamentally difficult problem.
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Proof Of Logic 10 Jan 18
Are you sure? Seems like there's speed kind of active forgetting going on to me, because I'll progressively forget more detail through the day. Seemingly more so than for regular events?
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Proof Of Logic 10 Jan 18
Is the mechanism which causes forgetting of dreams active at other times?
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Proof Of Logic 8 Jan 18
Prey evolve camouflage in an evolutionary arms race with predators, but does it have a side effect of making the world just really confusing for other animals?
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Proof Of Logic 29 Nov 17
Ecologists understand good and evil. Ethicists understand what's needed for a well-functioning collection of interacting organisms in an environment.
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