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Followup to:  Initiation Ceremony, If Many-Worlds Had Come First This time there were no robes, no hoods, no masks.  Students were expecte

Followup to:  If Many-Worlds Had Come First, The Failures of Eld Science "Eli: You are writing a lot about physics recently.  Why?"     

Followup to:  The Dilemma: Science or Bayes? Scott Aaronson suggests that Many-Worlds and libertarianism are similar in that they are both

Followup to:  Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality, My Wild and Reckless Youth Once upon a time, a younger Eliezer had a stupid theory. 

Followup to:  When Science Can't Help Once upon a time, a younger Eliezer had a stupid theory.  Eliezer18 was careful to follow the precep

Followup to:  Science Isn't Strict Enough poke alleges: "Being able to create relevant hypotheses is an important skill and one a scien

Followup to:  Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality, Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff? I don't ask my friends about their childhoods

New Scientist on changing the definition of science, ungated here: Others believe such criticism is based on a misunderstanding. "Some pe

Followup to:  Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality, Einstein's Arrogance I sometimes say that the method of science is to amass such an

Followup to:  Faster Than Science Yesterday I argued that the Powers Beyond Science are actually a standard and necessary part of the soci

Followup to:  Einstein's Speed Imagine a world much like this one, in which, thanks to gene-selection technologies, the average IQ is 140

Followup to:  That Alien Message When I lecture on the Singularity, I often draw a graph of the "scale of intelligence" as it appears in e

Followup to:  Einstein's Speed, My Childhood Role Model, Timeless Physics There is a widespread tendency to talk (and think) as if Einstei

Followup to:  The Failures of Eld Science, Einstein's Superpowers "Do as well as Einstein?" Jeffreyssai said, incredulously.  "Just as wel

As Jaynes emphasizes, the theorems of Bayesian probability theory are just that—mathematical theorems that follow inevitably from Bayesian a