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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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The Best Most Listened-To Albums of 2012: Top 20
Here are the 20 albums that I listened to the most this year. The first part of the top 35 is over here; as I mentioned there, it was an odd year for music. I don’t even own many of the albums below; rather, I streamed them from various places. Once again I’ve bolded some…
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The Best Most Listened-To Albums of 2012 – #35 to #21
Every year I go through my Last.fm profile and identify my most listened-to albums to post here for consideration. This year marked a radical shift in my music habits. iTunes Match allowed me access to my entire music collection wherever I went, but more importantly, my subscription to Rdio allowed me access to almost all…
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