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Mind
- Answer Patterns: Four dimensions for reading what an answer is doing.
- Noam Chomsky: Where I follow him, where I part ways, and his point about the limits of intelligence.
- Cold Logic: Reasoning that follows a principle past the point where it serves people, and its warm opposite.
- Comfort and Biases: Why comforting beliefs persist, and the one bias under all the others.
- Computation: Universal computation, computational irreducibility, and why paradigm shifts matter.
- Human Core Challenges: The biological, social, and entropy problems under every other problem.
- Cultural Cognition: Reading facts through group identity, and how societies move past it.
- Daniel Dennett: Gradualism, intuition pumps, and Darwin’s dangerous idea.
- Desire: A single scale from hatred to addiction.
- Detecting Baloney: Pointers for an intellectual self-defense toolkit.
- Edge Website: The best salon on the web, and its Epstein problem.
- Famous Lessons: Razors and reminders for thinking.
- Famous Quotes: A few lines worth remembering, and how to use quotes well.
- Free Will: The Harris and Dennett exchange, in three layers.
- Optimism: Lines and proverbs against pessimism.
- Roger Penrose: Provisional physics and non-algorithmic consciousness.
- Steven Pinker: My primary reference in psychology, with two reservations.
- Karl Popper: Three principles of toleration under every good argument.
- Pseudoscience: Why it is bad, who is drawn to it, and what actually counters it.
- Reflexivity: Observing and revising your own thinking, its evolved limits, and how institutions extend it.
- Reflexivity Curriculum: Norms, practices, and safeguards that make reflection the default.
- Science: The most important mental tool we have, and why it comes hard.