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my favorite conspiracy theory - the govt has already cracked all the RSA codes but they keep funding QM to show that we're still secure.

This is a nice first pass at the common sense problems with interpreting FDA regulations. I imagine that those who have been dealing with this for some time aren't as confused as t…

This review of Matti Eklund's book, Alien Structure: Language and Reality, made me wonder if an alien language is even possible. Wouldn't any representational system need to use lo…

Analytic writing goes back to Newton and Leibnitz, but the psychology of thinking in terms of synthetic or analytic propositions derives from Kant. He added synthetic in an attempt…

Recommended by Scott Aaronson who writes, "My friend Leopold Aschenbrenner, who I got to know and respect on OpenAI’s now-disbanded Superalignment team before he left the company u…

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The author doesn't consider, or comment on, or maybe doesn't know about, Voeglin's thesis that the Hebrews exemplify a bringing-about of order out of disorder with a reflective und…

Kierkegaard said that in the old days you would lose your head, but nowadays you're allowed to talk your head off in Hyde park.

And kierkegaards aphorisms are a master collection of witticisms

Nicely said, although Dubliners was different enough that the editor didn't want to publish it. The complexity of Ulysses is like Dante's Comedia, and both demonstrate the individu…

Schneier on Security

Researchers demonstrate a quantum algorithm that can generate realistic examples of complex patterns, in this case, creating authentic-looking handwritten digits.

Robert A Wilson's blog, hidden assumptions, has been arguing there are also problems with general relativity and the conservation of mass. His work, consistently rejected despite r…

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