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The simple answer to today’s titular question is no, Bayesianism cannot quantify true belief.
This answer will disappoint the Effective Altruists, Rationalists, many professional statisticians, a score of others, and the gentleman who wrot...
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Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?
I received this very thoughtful criticism on a Class video at YouTube, which I take to be most kind, and found it important enough to answer here.
I love these videos, but may I ask you something totally respectfully that sounds kind of...
After-Birth Abortions
Academic philosophers Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva have written a peer-reviewed paper in which they say that killing newborns is A-OK, and even in some cases to be encouraged.
Their “After-birth abortion: why should the baby liv...
Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants
Isaac Asimov in The Naked Sun, one of his many robot-mystery books, wrote that the minds of his positronic-brained robots (unlike our forever-dumb switch-brained computers) were “Logical but not reasonable.” That trope, as you well know, wa...
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William M. Briggs was born in Detroit at the height of its majesty. The Air Force taught him electronic cryptography. He became a weatherman, then went back to school to learn to do physics, mathematics, then, at last, philosophy of science.
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