Back in 1997, a movie adaption of the Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers came out. I had read the book but was put off that…
If one takes the anarcho-libertarian concept of private property seriously, then there is no ‘freedom of speech’ in any fundamental sense. Rather, the only genuine…
Link to original article here The Turing principle In 1936, Church and Turing independently discovered the same model of universal computation. Their proof is known…
Popper once wrote: For what really happens [when we criticize a theory] is this. If we feel that we should produce some criticism of [Theory]…
The following is an extended quote from Roger Penrose from Shadows of the Mind, p. 382-383: Though it indeed seems reasonable to rule out space-time…
Dennis Hackethal recently released a fun series on functional programming using JavaScript as a gateway drug to learning Clojure, which is a LISP-based language. About…
In The Beginning of Infinity Deutsch says that it would be best to think of all scientific theories as ‘misconceptions’: I remarked at the end…
The postmoderns were wrong! Knowledge can progress, despite uncertainty! In Episode 3 Bruce and Cameo finally solved the problem of how we can make progress…
I owe several people responses. I owe Ella feedback on CTP theory. I think I owe Dennis responses on animal consciousness as well as what…
Note – this was originally published with Areo. The story of evolution on Earth began at least 3.7 billion years ago, when self-replicating molecules began…