Caledonian, shouldn't you check up on who currently owns the word 'reasoning' before stating that?
I guess there must be some sort of register somewhere...
In response to Guardians of the Gene Pool
In response to Leaky Generalizations
I hate to be a pedant (no really!), but most humans have eight fingers and two thumbs.
In response to Torture vs. Dust Specks
Hmm, tricky one.
Do I get to pick the person who has to be tortured?
In response to Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
AI's need Emergence too. Make sure to add some of that to the soup ;^)
In response to Cached Thoughts
Surely if only the greatest thinkers thought it, everyone else who holds it to be true has it cached?
In response to We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think
In the case of Divorce, the reasons cannot always be taken as evidence for the marriage having been a mistake to begin with.
Things happen and people change.
In response to Why I'm Blooking
If you had the time, National Novel Writing Month might be a useful exercise for you!
In response to Rationality and the English Language
Another great post.
In response to Say Not "Complexity"
Aren't we understating the role of labels in brevity here?
Where the labelled thing is understood well enough by the labeller and listener or of trivial importance to the problem domain, don't labels contribute to cognitive economy?
I'd have said when you need to get things done, fear of wasting time is desirable rather than deadly.
View more: Next
Subscribe to RSS Feed
I've always felt that constraining yourself to poetry that rhymes restricts both what you can say and the artfulness with which you can say it.