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Category Archives: Knowledge
How Many Books Must a Person Read to Be Educated?
For Dangerous Children, I recommend reading between 5,000 and 10,000 books by the age of 21, including the books read to them as very young children. Books provide children with vocabulary as well as proxy knowledge of the larger world … Continue reading
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Rejecting Your Most Cherished Beliefs
Have you ever changed your mind about something that was of critical importance to you? Have you had beliefs that you were sure you would never change, but which you were forced to change by the evidence? That has happened … Continue reading
A Promising Investment in a Bleak Environment
Many investors are having difficulty seeing beyond the economic demolition program being carried out by the US Biden administration*, in order to find potentially profitable investment targets. One sector that seems to stand out is the educational technology sector. Thanks … Continue reading
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If We Cannot Solve Our Problems on the Same Level of Thinking that We Created Them then What Do We Do?
One of the largest problems needing to be solved is that most of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful elites do not want real problems to be solved at all. “A great crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” as … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Knowledge, Learning Theory, Philosophy
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Stories for Heretics and Social Ruffians
Common Biases in Science that Slow Progress to a Crawl A look at some psychological handicaps shared by even the most intelligent scientists, by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: Take for example loss aversion. This is more commonly known as “throwing good … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Knowledge, Science
Tagged Philosophy
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“Artificial Intelligence” in Psychiatry
We have come a long way since Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 program ELIZA began psychoanalysing students and staff of MIT. ELIZA was a “knee-jerk” therapist, which asked repetitive questions based almost entirely on the students’ comments to it. Follow the link … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge, Machine Intelligence
Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Mind, psychology
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Dystopian Fiction, Dystopian Reality
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU __ Orwell, 1984, Chapter 1 Dystopian societies bend the meanings of words and natural human emotions badly out of shape. This is done to make it … Continue reading
Jordan Peterson Read All of Sam Harris’ Books
The respective philosophies of Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson have not intermeshed smoothly so far. In two separate hour-length podcasts, the two men could not agree on a common concept of “truth” or an agreed upon method for the discovery … Continue reading
Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Brett Weinstein… Where They Belong
I Am Not Talking About Vancouver Tomorrow, 23 June 2018, Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris will attempt another futile debate on the relative merits of their divergent epistemologies. The event at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver is sold out. The … Continue reading
Jordan Peterson vs. the “Mad Dog Atheists”
Conscious Intelligence is Not a Logical Proposition Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has staked out a large territory in the sphere of public discussion, which borders on several distinctly different areas of thought and belief. These multiple “boundary lines” have become … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Jordan Peterson, Knowledge, Machine Intelligence, Science
Tagged logical fallacies
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A Fundamental Confusion of The Information Age
Never in history has so much information been at the fingertips of so many human beings. And yet never have so many humans been so confused, so dismayed, so driven to addiction and a compulsive aimlessness. Humans confuse data for … Continue reading
Delusions, Obsessions, and Ideologies in the Age of Trump
Delusions are unfounded but tightly held beliefs. Everyone is prone to forming delusions — in fact it can be said that human life is built upon systems of delusions, depending upon one’s upbringing. Ordinary delusions, as opposed to pathological delusions, … Continue reading
Posted in Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Groupthink, Ideology, Knowledge, Philosophy
Tagged Groupthink
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Advanced Brain Training Helps Make Dangerous Children a Potent Force
The following article is adapted from recent postings on The Dangerous Child On “Videogames” That Help Dangerous Children become more Dangerous Adam Gazzaley’s (MD, PhD) talk on optimising the human mind using advanced tools of cognitive neuroscience begins at about … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Human Brain, Knowledge, Learning Theory
Tagged Brain, Education
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Nobody Knows Nothing
“Why Oil Prices Will Rebound Before We Know It,” appeared when oil prices were about $50 a barrel. Crude briefly bounced to $60, before dropping more than 50 percent to about $26, where it trades today. … It’s not just … Continue reading
Posted in Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Folly of Prediction, Groupthink, Human Brain, Knowledge
Tagged economics, energy
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An Uber Style of Medical Care for the US?
The Tech Revolution is Sweeping Over Much of US Society — Why Not Health Care? Health care-market distortions have considerably worsened since Kenneth Arrow famously described them in 1963; but in other industries less dominated by misguided government intervention, similar … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Disruptive Technologies, Future, Human Brain, Knowledge, Medicine, Practical Medicine, Technology
Tagged Medicine
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End of the World Library to Help Things Reboot After TEOTWAWKI
You made it through the end of the world. Given enough time and care, you may find enough cooperative survivors to begin rebuilding. But how can you replace the knowledge that was lost when everything fell apart? You can’t, not … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Knowledge, Rebuilding Civilisation, Survival Prepping, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged Rebooting Civilisation
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What Does the Sun Have to Do With Climate?
The near future will be extremely interesting. I think it is important to accept that Nature pays no heed to what we humans think about it. Will the greenhouse theory survive a significant cooling of the Earth? Not in its … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Folly of Prediction, Groupthink, Knowledge, Science, Sun
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, sun
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Will Machine Intelligence Be the Child of Man that Ends Up Killing Us?
… “any sufficiently advanced benevolence may be indistinguishable from malevolence.” __ Charles T. Rubin We are being warned by prominent scientists, engineers, and men of commerce that machine intelligence — as implemented by military powers — is a threat to … Continue reading
Could Low-Dose Radiation Cure Diabetes?
No, low dose radiation will not cure diabetes. But it seems to show promise for fighting some of the complications of diabetes: Within the last few years, LDR has shown promise in combating the complications of diabetes. Studies have found … Continue reading
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Distinctions that Make a Difference
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut Almost everyone wants to be strong and independent, free from external manipulation and indoctrination. Part of the process of shielding ourselves … Continue reading
You Are Deluded
Commentary on excerpts from Dr. Bruce Charlton’s online e-book “Addicted to Distraction” Mass Media is a system like no other – it has no function of its own, so it can just keep growing. It has no positive aim for … Continue reading
A World Full of Simplistic Logic
Humans base much of their lives on the flimsiest of logic. Most human brains are lazy, if not lazy and stupid. They will take a simple idea “that they just know is true,” then build wildly ambitious ideologies and belief … Continue reading
Knowledge vs. Belief
Knowledge: “… a familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning. Knowledge can refer to a theoretical or practical understanding of … Continue reading
“Everything You Think You Know Just Ain’t So:” And That Ain’t the Half of It
The human brain attempts to impose order on the world it perceives. The brain “makes sense” of its observations by grouping them together in ways that seem to help predict the future and guide actions for best results. Most of … Continue reading
Don’t Make Things Harder to Understand Than Necessary
Science, math, and other subjects can be difficult enough. There is no need to make subjects harder to understand. Here is an example: Mothers typically encourage daughters to display typical female behaviours. But the results of this encouragement vary, depending … Continue reading
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