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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Bayesian 'Reasoning' vs. Judgment
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Right, so what is the prior probability that a baby dying is worse than an adult woman dying? How would you even start to collect such a sta...
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Homelessness
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Specifically, hardcore, chronic homelessness. After having read that, I thought about homeless people for a while. Then, I decided that at t...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Code_of_Laws AND ~Code_of_Laws
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Curiously, it appears my laws are circular. Here's theft: " Every one commits theft who fraudulently and without colour of right ...
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Monday, December 7, 2009
References to Hume's Ought
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My youngest memory of the phenomenon: " Our form of government and efforts at "emancipation" cannot change the fundamental f...
"Don't be Evil"
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A promise made in ignorance. I wistfully imagine a day when it's just known that our present companies are evil due to institutional evi...
Atheists on Consciousness
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" But defenders of religion like [Kathryn] Lofton and Karen Armstrong and the not-quite-pro-religion-but-getting-there types like Terry...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Kids and Kuriosity
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" A child's never-ending " whys " aren't meant to exasperate parents, scientists say. Rather, the kiddy queries are g...
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Bayesian 'Reasoning' and Fallacies
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That the process of rational reasoning works cannot be justified by reason. The simplest way of looking at why I have to use scare quotes on...
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