A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu
The First Step
I’ve developed a crude toolbox of gimmicks and half-formed heuristics for my interaction with the world. I’ve raised my hands at some firmamental ghost(s); I’ve wondered if the trees weren’t telling me secrets they’ve kept in the deepest of their sweaty roots; [...]
Would that there were a curious boogie man of convenient construction, vile enough to be a lightning rod of our fears and angry rebukes, sweet enough to offer safe haven for the friends we won’t see anymore. A creature, in short, onto whose shoulders we can heap the vast coldness of reality in whatever [...]
A friend told me once about his friend the meteorologist. My friend asked his friend if meteorologists could predict weather better than is commonly thought, and the guy said, “Well, yeah, we could, if we could find a starting point.”
The planet is engulfed in a swirling game of tug of war, and there’s a sense [...]
Rather than spin the story unnecessarily, I’m just going to quote a procession of commentary and leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide what, if any, point onto which I’m piggybacking.
KINGSTON, R.I. — There is nothing much unusual about the 197-page dissertation Marcus R. Ross submitted in December to complete his doctoral [...]
Jeff: power is nice
Me: Until the infidels rise up against you.
J: my God will crush them with a great fury because he is a kind and gentle god
M: Yes, a loving fluffy god you fear and love and fear some more.
M: You pray that his loving anger only makes you a better political candidate.
J: who [...]
I’ve been sucked into a nearly overwrought discussion about, initially, Occam’s Razor, and thereafter what its use says about belief without evidence, and the like. There aren’t many people with whom I can carry on like this in-person, so I for one credit the current iteration of the internet a philosophical boon.
My most recent [...]
It sounds tautological, I know; but there is utility in the distinction between what we can hope to feed our cognition, and what we can’t. Current ID claims of irreducible complexity attempt to infer a designer of everything, with arguments that boil down to, “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” The argument is based on [...]
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