James' notepad

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...

Religion makes you have more children.   Positive ethnocentrism: if you believe that your group is "special", you are more like...

I've previously written that truth and utility are  not the same . Corollary: you shouldn't believe things which are bad for you. ...

Knowing how to build a nuclear reactor, which then explodes. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Disbelief in god when no...

Instrumental and epistemic rationality tend to be correlated , because there is an objective world. Concepts are mental tools : don't as...