If the Overton Window were not inside of itself, you'd think I was crazy for writing this.Is it just me, or has the Baader-Meinhof effect been popping up all over the place ever since I learned about it?It's hard to justify learning about opportunity costs when there are so many other things you could be doing with that time.I don't think the idea of being Pareto Optimal has made anyone better off without making at least one person worse off.What can we infer from the fact that we find ourselve...
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These epistemic methods really want you to trust them
These epistemic methods really want you to trust them. Each tries to prove itself to you:
1. Tautologies are true by definition, 'cause tautologies are true by definition. 😎
2. Induction worked in the past, so it probably will in the future. 😉
3. If deduction solves your problem, and you want it solved, then you'll want to use deduction! 😊
4. If you thought Bayesianism had 3:1 odds, and you think this sentence is 2x more likely if Bayesianism than if not Bayesianism, ...
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