0xmadlad

Posting with the purpose of sparking some intriguing conversation. Question: A perfectly rational donkey starves between two identical hay piles because it has no reason to choose one. Science now constructively proves the universe is fully deterministic—no "could have done otherwise." Do your choices and fights still matter? Would you...

I saw a clip of Terence Tao on Dwarkesh's podcast narrating how we came to discover heliocentrism and it got me thinking about a topic that had somehow slipped out of my mind over the years, namely information overdose and it's numbing effects, and I'm sure many of you have...