Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by xingyzt » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 1:34 AM UTC

Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)
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Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by superb-owl » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 9:27 PM UTC

If you’re interested in Mach’s philosophy, which influenced Einstein heavily, I wrote about it here:

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/church-of-reality-ernst-mac...

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by reocha » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 9:40 PM UTC

If you want more info on Einstein's political philosophy this is a good read: https://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/uploads/Einstein%...

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by xingyzt » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 9:50 PM UTC

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by dang » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

xingyzt wrote: post #4

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

That's an artifact of HN's second-chance system. The system is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and links back from there. About the timestamps, there are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Sorry for the confusion—I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circle!

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by idlewords » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 11:07 PM UTC

xingyzt wrote: post #4

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

You are probably moving at high speed relative to the Hacker News server

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by Eupraxias » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 11:40 PM UTC

Anyone interested in Einstein's ontological and epistemological beliefs should read Arthur Fine's excellent "The Shaky Game - Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory".

One of the most rewarding books I have ever read.

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by malodyets » Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 3:21 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #5

xingyzt wrote: post #4

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

That's an artifact of HN's second-chance system. The system is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and links back from there. About the timestamps, there are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... . Sorry for the confusion—I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circ…

I don’t know how dang does it, but the internet would be so much better if every community had even half as good a moderator.

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by photochemsyn » Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 3:54 AM UTC

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Post by DiscourseFan » Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 5:46 AM UTC

photochemsyn wrote: post #9

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Look I don't know who bullied you in school, but there's no need to condescend to a group of people who actually take a pay cut to research things that aren't "cutting edge." I don't agree with Einstein's philosophy, but I don't think that trying to understand things from a philosophical perspective is useless. I also feel like its ridiculous to think that tweaking models and looking at mathematical formulas all day actually tells you anything about the world itself, it just tells you what we think about the world. And if you never actually stop to question what it is that you're thinking about, or why you think about it in a certain way, then you'll go on thinking forever and you'll never actually find what you were looking for in the first place.