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159 – Cryonics Concerns, and Theses On Sleep

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Paradigm of Science

Trolls serve the hidden function of legitimizing less extreme disagreement but you should not have so many articulate trolls that they begin arguing with each other or begin to dominate conversations. So Thomas Kuhn believes science has to have a paradigm which is part of it is shared technical language that excludes outsiders before it can get any work done. I think Bayesian rationalism has the on ramp of basically the methods of rationality as the largest one and the sequences. The sequences are so fucking long that you can't point people at them.

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