I had my first Twitter controversy. So: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/515857830524768256 https://twitter.com/rogierK/status/516162369350008832 I pointed out in the reply to this, that they don't actually charge that much normally. The comparison is here. The…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=08a6526a7a706c4ae5f5aa7543ffc702 Years ago when i used to study filosofy, i came across Joshua's website. On the site i found his phd thesis which i read. It is probably the…
From researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_actual_difference_between_1st_order_and_higher_order_logic What is the actual difference between 1st order and higher order logic? Yes, I know. They say, the 2nd order logic is more expressive, but it is…
I was asked to comment on this Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/s1t2c/netsec_how_would_you_design_an_electronic_voting/ This post is written with the assumption that a bitcoin-like system is used. Nirvana / perfect solution fallacy…
Murray (in Human Accomplishment) claims that knowledge of a field and judgement of the quality of items in that field follow each other. That's testable. What about this: -…
Someone needed this, so I made a quick collection. Introductory and more philosophical http://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/pw/text/pw_all.pdf Introductory not so philosophical/more formal https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/0415400678.Routledge.Logic_.An_.Introduction.Dec_.2005.pdf https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/0262511266.The_.MIT_.Press_.Logic_.Primer.-.2nd.Edition.Feb_.2001.pdf https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-Concise-Introduction-To-Logic-Hurley-7th-ed.pdf More advanced and very formal…
Perhaps the easiest way to convince yourself is by scanning the literature of soft psychology over the last 30 years and noticing what happens to theories. Most of them suffer…
The assignment was: Any aspect? :D I just wrote stuff about formal logic. So no more research was needed. Lucky. SMU paper 1
General impressions are never to be trusted. Unfortunately when they are of long standing they become fixed rules of life and assume a prescriptive right not to be questioned. Consequently…
[Philip_E._Tetlock]_Expert_Political_Judgment_How(Bookos.org) Very interesting book! ---- Game Theorists. The rivalry between Sherlock Holmes and the evil genius Professor Moriarty illustrates how indeterminacy can arise as a natural by-product of rational agents…