Sublime

An inspiration engine for ideas

AllPeopleCollectionsArticlesAudioBooksFilesHighlightsImagesLinksNotesTextTweetsVideosSocial

Just discovered vsauce has a video from 3 YEARS ago where he explains in plain language all the esoteric things i've been trying to spread this year, like about how humans don't use logic & reason to find truth, we use it to communicate & coordinate https://t.co/xoJtlFq4cm

Defender

x.com

One of the problems with being "rational" in your own estimation is that you are probably only being rational about one dimension of a surprisingly complex situation

David twitter.com

Thumbnail of www-x-com-shinboson-status-1832933747529834747-19ca7ec7c5b24694

A story about fraud in the AI research community: On September 5th, Matt Shumer, CEO of OthersideAI, announces to the world that they've made a breakthrough, allowing them to train a mid-size model to top-tier levels of performance. This is huge. If it's real. It isn't.... See more

𝞍 Shin Megami Boson 𝞍

x.com

fantastic essay on epistemology humans are coherence-maximisers, not truth-seekers the trouble is that depending on your priors, a coherent explanation - a simple story that fits together well, isn't well correlated with being useful or true - https://t.co/XjutOAjCm5... See more

Imp in New York!

x.com

How Reason Can Lead to God: A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith

Joshua Rasmussen

amazon.com

Cover of How Reason Can Lead to God: A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith

rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it

hinterlander • Tweet

The reality is________________.

Epistemic rationality: systematically improving the accuracy of your beliefs.

Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality

The “TESCREAL” Bungle—Asterisk

asteriskmag.com