Category: science
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I Got Injected Where the Pigs Poop and It’s Filling Me With Hope for the Future
I got my second COVID vaccine yesterday, so this post might be a literal fever dream. Sorry. It’s become almost cliché to say this, but do you ever snap back to reality and realize how weird things have become? Yesterday, I went to the place where London’s annual Western Fair is usually held. I passed…
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The Myth of the Adult
When we are kids, life’s trajectory looks something like this: struggle through childhood with crappy unfinished brains, then at some point, make a transition to adulthood, in which our brains are complete, mature, and equipped to handle what life throws at us. Calvin and Hobbes: Moving On, by Zatransis Every adult knows that’s bullshit. And every…
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Science With Thought Experiments
Think about this: Science—empirical study of the world—only exists because thought experiments aren’t good enough. Yet. Philosophers used to figure out how stuff worked just by thinking about it. They would take stuff they knew about how the world worked, and purely by applying intuition, logic and math to it, figure out new stuff. No…
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