complexitystudies

Bee over at Backreaction had a post last week on Max Tegmark: Discover Interview with Tegmark, and I would like to respond to some things said there and in a previous post by Bee on the topic.
(The Tegmark paper on “The Mathematical Universe” can be found on arxiv.org.)

Does the theory warrant further scrutiny?
First of all [...]

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I will duplicate some of my longer comments on OB here on my blog, as I’m not sure if all my readers are reading OB on a regular basis, and tracking comments there is difficult anyway.
The post concerned (it’s not long):
Overcoming Bias: Tyler Vid on Disagreement
The sentence I disagree with is this:
but on any truly [...]

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This is a good development:
Towards a Psychology of Philosophy?
A question that I find particularly interesting is, do attitudes about science, such as naturalism vs. anti-naturalism, correlate with levels of scientific education and talent for science and math? Could it be that one factor behind the (seemingly prejudicial) anti-naturalist attitudes that are still very influential [...]

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This post of Eli has many links and may be a good occasion for delving into some of the issues he has been talking about lately.
Overcoming Bias: Heading Toward Morality
Why? Because that is the conclusion he is drawing to:
Artificial Intelligence melts people’s brains. Metamorality melts people’s brains. Trying to think about AI and [...]

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There’s a blog entry at FXQI by William Orem nicely summing up a few points which are important to me: FQXi Community: Articles, Forums, Blogs, News
First of all, much of confusion in Western Philosophy and thinking can be dissolved by looking beyond our culture - in that way we can see what are only our [...]

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Long awaited, finally arrived: a list of all of Eli’s posts and a dependency graph!!
Eliezer’s OB Posts
Dependency Graphs
Great resource for newcomers and oldtimers.

Technorati Tags: rationality

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I have updated my thesis outline here. I think that it’s now pretty stable: I have
one and half years of reading behind me, and the transformations have been considerable (my
starting point was agent-based modelling - you would never believe it when reading it now).
But the structure now contains the arguments which are most important [...]

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