Sam (Crit Rat)

@Crit_Rat

Critical rationalist. Physics DPhil at Oxford. 🇳🇱🇬🇧 Popperian philosophy // physics // economics

Oxford, England
Joined May 2016

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    6 Dec 2018

    “Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.” ― Paul A.M. Dirac

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    Where better for the PM to discuss global trade than the Maritime Museum at Greenwich. Boris begins begins with a paean of praise to the painting of William and Mary on the ceiling. This is the densest concentration of soundness in discovered space.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Dreams—the sleep kind—are quickly forgotten, presumably since not confusing dreams and reality has an evolutionary advantage. But then if we instantly forget, what use does dreaming have?

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Another excellent video by on unschooling in which he answers frequently asked questions:

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    Most people never, ever forget the first person to give them a sizable advance on their own self-confidence — there's no greater security in life than being a serial enabler of wonderful young people

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    Jan 31
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  8. Jan 30

    Perhaps someday, everyone will learn through fun, interesting, voluntary projects, as this unschooler does. Until then, he is an example of what is possible without school.

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    Jan 29

    Interested to learn about constructor theory? If you're in , join us on 6 Feb for a colloquium by Chiara Marletto from . She will describe the theory's application to problems in information theory, thermoydnamics & quantum gravity.

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    Jan 28
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  11. Jan 27

    This is why mandatory education is inefficient in exactly the same way that slavery is: both lack positive incentives. In mandatory education, students work to avoid punishment. But free people work to benefit themselves.

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  12. Jan 27

    People thrive when they have positive incentives for creating new ideas. Suppressing someone's interests, especially the interests of young people, denies both them and us the huge benefits of these positive incentives.

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    Jan 26

    It’s not that it’s just “good for both businesses and the public” (the economic argument) it’s good, period. Morally, free trade is simply the right thing to do. It’s anti-coercion applied to transactions.

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    Jan 22

    The reason you can’t solve the halting problem is fundamentally the same as why there aren’t any prophetic oracles. If you prophesy someone’s future, why can’t they just do the opposite? If a program predicts another will halt, can’t it find that out and run forever?

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  15. Jan 23

    The EU has a webpage on bendy bananas, in which they answer the question 'is Brussels really meddling in what our beloved bananas should look like?'

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    Jan 19

    Issue #1 of my new newsletter: Making Minds and Making Progress.

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    Jan 20

    A culture that values free speech is far more important than a government law whose intention is to defend it.

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  18. Jan 20

    People make the earth more habitable, not less: because of disaster-prevention, not a single person in the Netherlands has died due to flooding since 1953.

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    Jan 13

    The claim "the brain is a computer" is no mere analogy. The brain is a computer. Period. Here's why:

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  20. Jan 11

    A widespread misconception about quantum theory is that it only applies to small systems. This is a falsehood, as I explain in my most recent blog post:

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    Jan 9

    We don’t damage the planet, in general. We fix it and make it a little more habitable. It’s the naturalistic fallacy to presume the way it was and is, is ideal. It’s a hostile death trap... this remains true even if you’re broadly anti-human and care more about other animals.

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