Let me share my pain. In the talk section of the Occam’s Razor entry of Wikipedia a debate was raging between AceMyth and Gkochanowsky regarding the value of Ockham’s Razor to science. AceMyth ended the exchange as follows: I’d continue this discussion, but running discussions in talk pages in Wikipedia is a time-consuming hobby that consumes time I just don’t have available these days. So I’m swallowing this frog and letting you have the last word, though I’m left with the impression that a lot of what I said has been misunderstood (for one, I think that “actual data from […]
John L. Taylor
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Transhumanists are a fascinating bunch, though I can’t help but see most of their views as simply a projection of religious longing onto science. As Ken MacLeod wrote, the Singularity seems to be “the rapture for nerds”. Apropos, a prayer: Our Posthumanity in Singularity, hallowed be our science, our omega come, our will be done, on earth as in noosphere. Give us today our uploads. Cast off our skins as we see accelerating change. Save us from existential risks and deliver us from senescence. [For the Singularity, the power, and the glory are ours now and for ever.] Amen.
While doing a bit of homework on scienceblogs.com, from Seed Media, I happened upon scientificblogging.com, which has just launched: ION Publications has announced that its online science community, scientificblogging.com, has gone into private beta. The Scientific Blogging community will bring together world-class scientists from universities and the private sector, science writers, science journalists, amateur scientists, science philosophers and everyone who wants to read about and discuss science. “There are a lot of science sites out there,” said Hank Campbell, CEO, “but the more we read the more we realized that most science sites were primarily interested in either politics or […]
Because it has simply been too long, here is a picture of my darling child: Here, he is bustin’ a move:
Brian Weatherson over at Crooked Timber wrote, in short: One of my quirkier philosophical views is that the most pressing question in metaphysics, and perhaps all of philosophy, is how to distinguish between disjunctive and non-disjunctive predicates in the special sciences. This might look like a relatively technical problem of no interest to anyone. But I suspect that the question is important to all sorts of issues, as well as being one of those unhappy problems that no one seems to even have a beginning of a solution to. One of the issues that it’s important to was raised by […]
2005 was the year of the oil company with many of these companies posting record profits. 2006 has been the year of alternative fuels with companies involved in this sector blowing off the charts. This trend shows no signs of abating… This is a small sample of the pump-and-dump spam I receive every day. It ends with a paragraph from a random CNN report, which I imagine was scraped by the bot that sent the message to evade Bayesian filters. No doubt this is familiar to most of us, since p&d spam accounts for about 15% of spam e-mail messages. […]