This will be a very short post which simply defines one term which I find useful when discussing the map and the territory. I find it very useful to have a term that helps clarify that the map is not completely arbitrary and that there are things in the territory...
Want to improve your memory? Start a business? Fix your dating life? The chances are that out of the thousands upon thousands of books and blogs out there on each of these topics there are already several that will tell you all that you need. I'm not saying that this...
Operating outside of ideology is extremely hard, if not impossible. Even groups that see themselves as non-ideological, still seem to end up operating within an ideology of some sort. Take for example Less Wrong. It seems to operate within a few assumptions: 1. That studying rationality will provide use with...
Arrogance is an interesting topic. Let's imagine we have two people who are having a conversation. One of them is an professor in quantum mechanics and the other person is an enthusiast who has read a few popular science articles online. The professor always gives his honest opinion, but in...