James' notepad

The Kaldor-Hicks argument is that a change in government policy which makes some people better off and some people worse off, should be purs...

Chromosomes exist, you can see them with a microscope. "Genes" are an abstraction. A gene is simply a section of a chromosome, but...

Previously:  Truth versus utility The rarity of suicide and the rarity of anti-natalist belief are good examples of the unimportance of argu...

Deductive arguments have a poor track record. Even if the argument is sound, the premises may be wrong, or the argument may not map well to ...

You can have a new idea, but you may not see all the ramifications of it. Other people will take your idea and reprocess it, reformulate it,...

Greece migrant crisis: Islanders strike over crowded camps . BBC, 22 January 2020. "Strikes and protests have been held on the Greek...

Devin Helton and BAP agree: the central problem of politics is the unceasing growth of third world slums. Humans don't optimise for i...