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Re. Ken Binmore – Game Theory – A Very Short Introduction

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:13. December 2010
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Page 2 “Even when people haven't thought everything out in advance, it doesn't follow that they are necessarily behaving irrationally. Game theory has had some notable successes in explaining the…

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So… your university wants to close some (humanities) department?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:7. December 2010
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Well, one university did and someone wrote a nice open letter to the president of it. It's worth reading. Bonus points if you can spot the etymological fallacy in it.…

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Excerpt from David M. Buss – Evoltuionary Psychology

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:6. December 2010
  • Post category:Evolutionary Psychology
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Some science about the inference about sexual interest in the other sex, showing that males infer it much more often than females. David M. Buss - Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

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“Don’t be evil” then again maybe not…

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. December 2010
  • Post category:Copyright and filesharing
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Somewhat paradoxically, "And then there’s Google of course. The search engine that pulled out of China over censorship concerns, announced just a few hours ago that it will censor auto…

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Norman Swartz and Raymond Bradley’s Possible Worlds finally available

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:28. November 2010
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It has taken some time but now it is available for free on the net. You can find it right here.

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Heinlein on time travel

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:29. October 2010
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"[speaking of going back in time] I'd particularly like to go back to my own childhood, see if things look as I recall them." Ira blinked. "Run a chance of…

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Quote: Heinlein “Time Enough for Love”

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. October 2010
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"If I must wait a thousand years to understand that word," Hamadryad replied, "then I probably never will. Minerva says that it cannot be defined in Galacta and even when…

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Status

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:25. October 2010
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Some of you may have noticed that I have removed the links from the blogs and moved them to the front page. I am in the middle of major overhaul…

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Classical predicate logic and empty domains

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. October 2010
  • Post category:Logic
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Classical predicate logic and empty domains

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Are contradictions meaningful?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. October 2010
  • Post category:Language/Logic
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Introduction In this essay I answer the question in the title with a very confident “Yes”, I give multiple arguments for this answer. For the purposes of this essay a…

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