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Friday, November 21, 2025

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>information faster than light: emergence, symbol and the representation of nothing

>entropy and truth

>the duality of truth: functional process vs probabilistic uses of "true" (pace Pinker)

>art, craft, game-theoretic cognition and machine learning

>the necessary mediocrity of art, UFOs and religions, and the boundless imagination of science

>where is the mind and what's a thought?

>complexity and AI: why LLMs succeeded where generative linguistics failed

>the sociology of false beliefs

>how we know what dogs are not saying and that the universe is not thinking

>jones' 4 corollaries to Brandolini's Law

>the Gates-Musk paradox: conspiracy theories are not about what the theorists think they're about

>the gnomiad: the science and sociology of life advice, and their paradoxical puzzles 

>of mathematical beauty: crystals and potatoes, a Darwinian explanation

>self-selection & the unchosen: identity, the spark bird and the Freudian trap

>de-mystifying Wittgenstein (and a tribute to Chomsky)

>an addendum on Robin Hanson's grabby aliens

>where the future is behind you

>the fool's errand attachment: a cognitive bias

>the new libertarian, overcome by bias

>fast track to enlightenment and nirvana

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