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This post began life as a comment responding to Peer Gynt's request for a steelman of non-correspondence views of truth. It ended up being f

Thought of this after reading the discussion following abcd_z's post on utilitarianism, but it seemed sufficiently different that I figured

I just read a paper by Gerhard Schurz proposing an interesting resolution to the problem of induction. Download a PDF here. Here's the abs

Laws as Rules We speak casually of the laws of nature determining the distribution of matter and energy, or governing the behavior of phy

Summary: There are claims that Boltzmann brains pose a significant problem for contemporary cosmology. But this problem relies on assuming t