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Elliot Temple
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Elliot Temple writes Fallible Ideas, a personal blog at fallibleideas.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Taking Children Seriously”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Elliot Temple's Fallible Ideas site for Taking Children Seriously, essays on thinking better and fixing mistakes, and an online discussion group for these ideas.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Philosophy articles by Elliot Temple about reason, fallibility, knowledge, parenting, relationships, and social issues.
Most-linked posts?
- Taking Children Seriously4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-11-12
- How Public Goods Get Built or Not Built2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-02-05
What Hacker News says?
> In order for fundamentalist libertarianism to work it will need to come up with a solution to the free-rider problem. Got one? Yes: http://fallibleideas.com/public-goods
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on “Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive”Submitted Taking Children Seriously as a story · 235 points
HN discussionI knowingly, intentionally disagree with the public good argument. See: http://fallibleideas.com/public-goods
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on “Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive”Submitted My New Philosophy Website as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI am not programmed with these views. I grew up in an environment heavily leaning the other way. Then I rethought things on my own initiative. I am open to discussion including lengthy discussion. HN is not a suitable place for that. Why don't we talk here: http://groups.google.com/group/rational-politics-list/ You can also read some of my philosophy if you like (if you think I am programmed by someone, please let m…
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on “Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe”Submitted How Public Goods Get Built or Not Built as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://fallibleideas.com/taking-children-seriously
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on “eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database”> I'm generally an admirer of the school of parenting laid out by Chua Do you have any reply to this? http://fallibleideas.com/parenting-and-tradition
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on “Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)”hey RebeccaBV, glad to hear about your positive experience with TCS! there is an active online community which discusses TCS and other related ideas at the Fallible Ideas discussion group. you can learn more about important philosophical ideas like TCS and get help applying them to your life! http://fallibleideas.com/discussion-info
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on “Taking Children Seriously”Work has multiple parts. Some work is done alone, some in pairs, and some in a public group. The public group part has value and importance: for example, getting more variety of criticism and other feedback such as what people don't understand. Work done in a public group also helps others learn, so that's good. If, hypothetically, you should join the group, in what way could you find that out? What would change you…
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on “Living cells are very fast and crowded places (2012)”Hi erasmuse, the Fallible Ideas mailing list ( http://fallibleideas.com/discussion ) would be a more fruitful place to discuss your ideas. There, openness to new ideas is valued, as is being willing to discuss disagreements persistently until resolution. http://fallibleideas.com/paths-forward
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on “Living cells are very fast and crowded places (2012)”http://fallibleideas.com/taking-children-seriously
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on “Ask HN: Any good collaboratively built documentation on good parenting?”The future will condemn our coercive parenting and our irrational, exclusive relationships (marriages). If you think that sounds crazy, that means they are at least candidates for things people take for granted that are bad (unlike, say, the environmentalism in the post which is an issue we're all aware of). If interested, you can find arguments here: http://fallibleideas.com/
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on “Wife-beating and slavery were once acceptable: How will the future judge us?”http://fallibleideas.com/emotions
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on “Ask HN: My lifetime mentor died. How to move on?”http://fallibleideas.com/ http://beginningofinfinity.com/
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on “Ask HN: How to become smarter?”Well, all memes are possible to change. They're just ideas. Software. The difficulty level is an open question, but the bare capability isn't controversial. So when people talk about impassable limits, I take them to be referring to supposed genetic limits -- genes are commonly supposed to be adept at putting strong limits on people. Here is something relevant I wrote, about changing emotions (raw emotions aren't me…
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on “Using iPads to bridge communication gap with dolphins”Much of philosopher Elliot Temple’s work is about how to think better. That’s a big topic that includes, among many other things: - becoming aware of and fixing mistakes ( https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/life-overreaching-correc... ) - identifying and working with bottlenecks ( https://criticalfallibilism.com/most-factors-arent-borderlin... ) - managing your error rate for faster progress ( https://fallibleideas…
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on “Ask HN: How do you become smarter?”> The problem with Singapore is that PAP is actually competent and far from Orban/Putin level. The underlying problem is that with an authoritarian government you have no recourse if it changes its attitude. Prussia was run competently, too, until Wilhelm II inherited the throne. Authoritarian rule is always a gamble. There's a reason why Popper argued that "who should rule" is the wrong question [1]: > Karl Popper…
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