2 month ago
deusx : Twelve Virtues of Rationality - "These then are twelve virtues of rationality: Curiosity, relinquishment, lightness, evenness, argument, empiricism, simplicity, humility, perfectionism, precision, scholarship, and the void. "
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6 month ago
deusx : Overcoming Bias: Mind Projection Fallacy - "Would a non-humanoid alien, with a different evolutionary history and evolutionary psychology, sexually desire a human female? It seems rather unlikely. To put it mildly."
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6 month ago
deusx : Overcoming Bias: Joy in the Merely Real - "You might say that scientists - at least some scientists - are those folk who are in principle capable of enjoying life in the real universe."
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19 month ago
adamrg : Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason - I don't usually buy or read books by politicians; but I think that Al Gore is now a philosopher and humanitarian in his own mind. So, time to go buy.
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22 month ago
plasticbag : The difference between religion and science encapsulated in one easy to digest tiny little flow diagram - As I get older I get less interested in the intellectual paradoxes that language allows us to get lost in, and more interested in affecting the world around me. My patience for religion—and philosophy—has diminished enormously.
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26 month ago
plasticbag : The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science - I will contributing money to this and I recommend any and all of you to do the same. Richard Dawkins has a style that not everyone gets along with, but that doesn't stop him being clearly and self-evidently right.
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