science
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Artificial Flaws
I wanted to write of AI, but I’m unable. I heard Michael Sandel on the radio last week, and, in his usual socratic (we never know what he himself thinks) style, he was asking people what they thought about algorithms deciding things like scoring student papers. I often think, the contestants we’ll call them, participants Continue reading
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Expanding into?
I finished Martin Rees’s book Just Six Numbers, while I didn’t really understand it that well, not being a physicist or a star gazer, I did get the thematic. Most folks do this, a book written by a professional and digested by non-professionals needs to be very well written and Rees does this well enough. Continue reading
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Science can be refuted but not verified
I intend to expand upon the questions proposed by Descartes, Hume and Popper. Knowledge requires definition as to what it is and how it is used. We don’t know what we don’t know but we can speculate based upon the limitations of what we do know or can state with a degree of certainty. I Continue reading
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Dissecting greatness
There is to be found an abundance of proficiency in the practice of carrying out tasks such as potting a snooker ball. There is no shortage of players who can do this, and do it very well. What then is there to separate any of these persons, why then are there so few professionals that Continue reading
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I like working here but it’s broken
First let me start with a statement, I like working here, it’s a good place, it has interesting people, I have an interesting job and what we all contribute to is the betterment of lives, that is a good thing that needs no further qualification. I think it is fundamental to this essay that it Continue reading
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It is about belief
As politicians, the media and apologist try to convince us that this isn’t about faith, ask yourself this: how could it not be about faith? How does a person get to committing an atrocity of this nature by any other means? I’m a leftist, as such I tend to accept folks for what they are, Continue reading
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The others confusion effect
I have a theory and it goes a little something like this….. People mostly think that they have an authentic self – this is a challengeable concept though. We can first ask as to where we find this authentic person? Is it in their own head space, the mind self, or is it in reality, Continue reading
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On Belief
On Belief In the beginning a very astute and devious humanoid looked up to the sky in wonder at a giant ball of burning hydrogen. It occurred to this primitive man who if he could convince his fellow humanoids that the hydrogen ball was in charge, had a voice that spoke to him only and Continue reading
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Pedagogically
On the position of Kaczynski, Pedagogically In an educational society but not of that society, the dissent of a tutor based on such paradigmatic reasoning as trying to act as if we were educationally free in a system that simply labels itself free but stands up to no scrutiny of this postulate. This is the awakened individual Continue reading
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