Monday, February 17, 2025

Old, Hard-to-Resolve Questions in Philosophy Are Likely Often Meaningless

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Philosophy has posed questions which persist literally for millennia, being re-discovered, re-asked from different angles, and with the ans...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Some Medical Hypotheses

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Many people in medical fields accumulate these points of curiosity that are outside their specialization or that they otherwise never have t...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Parasite Burdens and the Flynn Effect

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The Flynn Effect is the real, not-test-based increase in IQ seen in first-world countries, about 3 IQ points a decade. In the last couple ...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Is a Virus Alive?

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The pandemic has brought this question much more public attention than usual. It seems to be an interesting question - but on scrutiny, the...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Number of COVID-19 Cases Correlates With Population Density

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It seems fairly obvious that density should correlate with how fast a virus spreads. Comparing across countries or even states is difficult...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Why We Failed to React to the Pandemic

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Given how the pandemic dominates all other news, an appropriate warning about it should have done the same. Yet in the West there was no su...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Lack of Real-World Money Pumps: How Intransitive Preferences Do and Do Not Distort Behavior

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In economics and other areas of applied rationality, the problem with having intransitive preferences - where you prefer x to y, and y to z...