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Brett Hall
Personal blog · bretthall.org/blogphilosophyscience
Brett Hall writes BRETT HALL, a personal blog at bretthall.org about philosophy and science. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brett Hall's posts as explanations of physics and science questions, including the fine-structure constant and David Deutsch's argument on alien intelligence.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
You may find this an interesting read: https://www.bretthall.org/fine-structure.html
Comment linking /fine-structure.html
on “Mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain”Submitted Gravity is not a force (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe argument I'm most familiar with comes from David Deutsch. Here's a very quick summary of the argument: https://www.bretthall.org/alien-intelligence.html
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on “Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions for the Drake Equation”Submitted Are all evils caused by insufficient knowledge? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLove to see it on the top of HN. To Popper! "Popper has argued (I think successfully) that a scientific idea can never be proven true, because no matter how many observations seem to agree with it, it may still be wrong. On the other hand, a single contrary experiment can prove a theory forever false." But then how do we decide which theory is worth taking the time to criticize?--I think this is where David Deutsch…
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on “The Problem of Induction (1953)”Submitted Are all evils caused by insufficient knowledge? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Been Proved as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Philosophy of Science as a story · 1 points
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