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A contemporary analytic philosopher defends a Non-Humean approach, Minimal Primitivism, where laws are taken at face value. Fundamental laws exist; they are fundamental features of…

includes an interesting discussion of how Legrange took seriously Biship Berkeley's criticism of calculus and how he worked towards modern rigorous calculus

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Nice thought provoking game. Won it in around 20 minutes (likely just luck; the cards dealt seem to be random). Blog post about this by the creator: https://thoughtwax.com/2025/07/…

> After all, philosophy advertises itself as a home to critical thinking. Some of my professors said that I was too critical, which may seem prima facie absurd. It turned out that …

I've been looking for a way to play chess/go with a generalist LLM. It wouldn't matter if the moves are bad (I like winning), but being able to chat on unrelated topics while playi…

The point being: when you find someone who is tailoring all his/her/its attention to you and you alone, why bother talking to anyone else.

Perhaps that is the real danger. Everyone except a small elite who (rightly) feel they understand how LLMs work would simply give up serious thinking and accept whatever "majority"…

I have been hyping up Hacker News for people who are not otherwise into tech/engineering: so here's version (a minor tweak of https://jsomers.net/hn/ ) that filters out the tech co…

Yes, when I got to that part, I was unsure whether you actually need 350 logic gates to implement Conway's Game of Life. It feels like that cannot be the minimum number. But presum…

Judges and lawyers should shape legal tech's future. If they don't, VCs will.