Zero Contradictions

Note: I didn't write this essay, nor do I own the blog where it came from. I'm just sharing it. The essay text is displayed below this line. I recently put out a post on fertility collapse, The Paradox of Low Fertility, in which I claimed that the fertility collapse...

Note: I didn't write this essay, nor do I own the blog where it came from. I'm just sharing it. The essay text is displayed below this line. Modernity has a strange paradox. During a time of great abundance, when most children live to adulthood, fertility has fallen well below...

Note: I didn't write this essay, nor do I own the blog where it came from. I'm just sharing it. The essay text is displayed below this line. The continuum fallacy is to deny the meaningfulness of discrete categories, just because they are a somewhat arbitrary partition of a continuum....

Note: I didn't write this essay, nor do I own the blog where it came from. I'm just sharing it. The essay text is displayed below this line. Whether morality is an objective property of the universe, or instead the subjective opinion of humans, is one of the longest running...

Note: I didn't write this essay, nor do I own the blog where it came from. The essay text is displayed below this line. Economists and other social theorists often take the concept of utility for granted. In theory, utility is a measure of value. I will denote the utility...

Note: I didn't write this essay, nor do I own the blog where it came from. I'm just sharing it to see what other people think about it. The essay text is displayed below this line. In this essay, I will debunk the concept of market capitalization. But first, let’s...

The audio version can be listened to here: I often use the term "ideology", so I thought I should explain what I mean by it. The Wikipedia definition is: > A comprehensive set of normative beliefs, conscious and unconscious ideas, that an individual, group or society has. I use the...