Gwern — Philosophy↗

Philosophical fiction or a prose poem about suffering innocents and the theodicy In the bestiaries of Borges are always to be found some mention, however oblique, of the Tzadikim Nistarim , the sadly...

But of course, we use ‘respect’ in contexts other than historical discussions or when talking about accomplishments (“I really respect Jimmy’s ability to long-jump 13 feet!”).

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Oscar Wilde The morality of books has long been a debated question.

For lack of diagrams, I represent the graphs of elemental transformation textually. A directed graph has nodes. A node is bi- or uni-directional.

Descartes’s God is pantheism; a reductio ad absurdum of his ontology In Meditation 3 of Rene Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy , Descartes demonstrates the existence of God in several ways.

Art lovers sometimes write or talk as if economic costs do not matter.

C : Many things in life are low odds. Let’s just say “is possible for it to become a human being”. That sounds reasonable to me.

Western liberal socialist capitalism is the attractor state for industrialized humanity for the foreseeable future, and that barring existential risks etc.

Is it possible to prove the existence of retrocognition if precognition also exists, because precognition could be used to foresee any proof found of retrocognition?

American public survey suggests meaningful support for organ donation from anencephalic (terminal) babies.

Video games are art. But they are a strange art. They are an art without good art criticism, and they occupy a peculiar position in popular culture: universal and dominant, and yet almost invisible...