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What’s The Difference Between Explanation & Prediction?
Our main goal is to learn if or how a theory can be falsified. Sound easy? It isn't. In order to get there, we first need to grasp what is…
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Experts: Stop Us Before We Let AI Become Aware & Kill Us All!
To reify, v: consider an abstract concept to be real. Now the Scientist was more cunning than any Expert in the field which the Dean had made. And he said…
Posted inFun Philosophy
What If There Were TransRays?
Anon writes: I was having a discussion earlier about the clown world we find ourselves in, specifically "transgender" stuff, and along the way an interesting question came up. Suppose some…
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Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy
This is the second post reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder's new book Existential Physics. First is my criticism of Many Worlds. If you are short of time, skip to the bottom today.…
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Why The Many Worlds (Multiverse) Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong: A New Objection
UPDATE I caused great confusion by putting the word "multiverse" in the title, when there is a whole other theory called "the" multiverse. Yet I did this because Hossenfelder herself,…
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Wait! Don’t Hit The Off Switch! You’ll Cause An AI Holocaust!
So there's this thing called lightning. Fire from the sky. Nobody knows why or how it happens, but every now and then...whizzz-cushhcracccck-boom! Fire from the gods explodes from the clouds!…
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Super Truth-Seeing Mutant Beings Walk Among Us!
You've not been able to miss the Marvel universe, I'm betting, even if, like regular readers, you don't go to the movies. The characters are nevertheless everywhere, as is the…
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Pope Benedict’s Final Testament On How Science Cannot Destroy Faith
Pope Benedict, as all popes do, left a Spiritual Testament, a short summary of his beliefs to be read after he was dead. Benedict devoted a good portion of his…