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Population Collapse and Creativity
More airchat chats. Orignal here: https://www.getairchat.com/bretthall/tokchat?t=927636
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the article has been cut and pasted by me as an image. But the original article as of today is here: https://www.theguardian.com/monash-university-the-endangered-generation/2022/may/17/wake-up-call-are-we-really-endangering-the-next-generation
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PhET (Physics Education Technology) is a great place to lose yourself for hours playing with simulations (not just physics!). Their one on Natural Selection is found at https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/natural-selection and is a great way to learn the fundamentals. If you would like to support this endeavor, do consider making a one off donation by clicking the “Donate” button on the front page of www.bretthall.org
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This is the first in the series of "Things that make you go mm?" (Get it - shorter!). "Minisodes" getting to the fundamentals of each of the Mmmms I've been discussing recently. Theories are misconceptions. All our knowledge contains misconceptions - as well as truth.
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Here I read from Rand's work "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" and reflect upon it by comparing it to actual epistemology (how knowledge is created). We explain the misconceptions in the view that knowledge is all about the goings on in minds and how Rand's epistemology is root-and-branch subjectivist. Ayn Rand is an excellent defender of free trade and capitalism, the inherent value of people: her ideas are pro-human and broadly optimistic. However the epistemology is fundamentally flawed containing pure speculation about how people learn (so-called "concept formation") and disconnected from problems in (for example) science and where knowledge is being constructed. Her examples are highly abstract rather than being based in the concrete reality of the history of ideas and for this reasons she reaches the same conclusions as almost all other philosophers on this topic. Namely that knowledge is derived from reality through our senses (empiricism) and is induced by noticing similarities between objects. This is not explanatory, it is not insightful and it is demonstrably false - as I explain.
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An impromptu AMA of questions received on Twitter that I was unable to get to during a recent interview. Lots of fun, minimal editing:
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01:13 Arjun Khemani “Why are problems inevitable?"
06:41 Jiten Terricola “There are differences between men and women. They have different propensities for doing things. What explains this when we’re all universal explainers each capable of doing what any other person can do?”
20:48 - David Hurn “With the right knowledge,can we change the laws of physics/reality? Or can we only get round them? #Optimism"
30:00 - Jeffcoast Bourbon “He’s written a bit on education; does he have any updated thoughts?”
44:58 DingbattusSapiens “Please ask him/her what fallibilism means :) Also, are we a self-domesticated species and why does Adam Sandler have a career.”
57:00 Kees Manshanden “How would you guard against knowledge production that's potentially catastrophic to humanity? For example, the knowledge to create 'easy nukes'; a weapon of mass destruction that can be made by anyone with a high school diploma.”
01:11:27 dean_of_no What is scientific thinking?
01:19:38 Alan Curtis “Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?”
01:32:00 Resty T “I know Deutsch describes his ideas as footnotes to Popper, but didn't he make improvements like "good explanations are hard-to-vary" or was that something Popper expressed too?”
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