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What follows are some notes to self that I took while reading the first 7 pages of Stuart A. Kauffman's book Reinventing the Sacred. This was over 6 years ago, in January 2017. I read those pages multiple times, pausing whenever I had some objections arise, and journalling about the...
Zvi recently coined, and has now written up this Law of No Evidence: > Law of No Evidence: Any claim that there is “no evidence” of something is evidence of bullshit. Considered next to Eliezer's Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence, it might seem like a contradiction, but as...
(This started as a comment on Zvi's weekly post from 3/18, but it got long and I started a second comment and I figured I might as well just make a new top-level post.) I don't intend these posts to be consistent or exhaustive in the way that Zvi's are....
🇨🇦 People liked my Canada comment on Zvi's post on Jan 14th, so here's another update as a top-level post. I thought I wouldn't have much to say but apparently I wrote some stuff! (I want to underscore that this is a rambly summary from someone who does not have...
(crossposted from malcolmocean.com; originally published June 2015) I have things to say about the Ask/Guess/Tell Cultures model, and an addition/amendment to propose: Reveal Culture. Shifting cultures is hard, so what you’re about to read is not going to have a quality of “let’s all go do this!” I do think...
Most people have had the experience of being able to articulate advice that they themselves do not follow, even though it applies to their situation as well. Usually this implies that there's some sort of internal conflict present—a competing commitment that gets in the way of doing the thing that...
This is one of the most important articles I've read in awhile. It makes a generalization from something Scott pointed out in this SSC post. Here are a few excerpts, but it's worth clicking through and reading the whole thing! > From the inside, when you subscribe to a narrative,...