Mo King

Mistake theorists are good at building. They can create complex technology, advance science, engineer solutions to technical problems. This requires genuine accuracy - you can’t fake your way through nuclear physics or software development. Reality punishes deviations from truth too quickly and consistently.

But mistake theorists are terrible at... See more

Imre Lakatos, a student of the famous philosopher of science Karl Popper, proposed a persuasive framework that can guide our evaluation of the scientific status and progress of particular theoretical traditions or paradigms such as Marxism and Darwinism. Every scientific tradition consists of two broad parts: a hard core and a protective... See more

All emotions are useful for writing except for bitterness .

Good writing requires the consideration of other minds—after all, words only mean something when another mind decodes them. But bitterness can consider only itself. It demands sympathy but refuses to return it, sucks up oxygen and produces only carbon dioxide. It’s like sadness, but stuck... See more

Judaism gave the world the idea that righteousness might not belong to the strong: our God is on the side of the weak, the poor, the persecuted, and the despised. First He thunders: ‘The Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible.’ But in the very next verse: ‘He executes the judgment of the fatherless... See more

Let’s assume we abandon moral realism. A question we can ask next is: ”OK, morality is not objective in an absolute way, but can moral statements nonetheless be considered true or false in another way?”

Here, one option is to say no. Moral statements are neither true nor false, because moral statements do not refer to a moral reality that can make... See more