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Philosophical Disquisitions
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Philosophical Disquisitions is a personal blog at philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com about philosophy and ai. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this blog's posts on the 'classic style' of writing from Steven Pinker's book, and an opinion piece on a grade strike. The comments cite the posts as sources and do not judge the writing.
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Things hid and barr'd from common sense
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I've always been annoyed by this, but now that I know the term "classic style", it annoys me even more. For those who haven't heard of it, "classic style" is explained in the recent book Sense of Style by Steven Pinker, and there's a nice diagram here: https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2014/09/stev... It's in opposition to academic style, legal style, self-conscious style, etc. One distressing thing I'…
Comment linking /2014/09/steven-pinkers-guide-to-classic-style.html
on “Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife”Submitted The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction as a story · 119 points
HN discussionAgreed! That's why I went for markdown in implementing it for myself. Handwriting definitely helps, but a lot of it in this system is done during reading (or just general life), which Ahrens calls "literature notes". Ahrens has a theory that handwriting forces paraphrasing, which he views as important to learning. Anyway, I handwrite all that, then there's a later stage of integrating the relevant info into the syst…
Comment linking /2016/09/competitive-cognitive-artifacts-and.html
on “Zettelkästen?”Submitted Types of Legal Argument as a story · 102 points
HN discussionThe least useful one. Edit: Here's an opinion about that: https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-...
Comment linking /2020/02/the-moral-problem-of-grading-extended.html
on “Update on grade strike”Submitted Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Algocracy as Hypernudging: A New Way to Understand the Threat of Algocracy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Escaping Skinner's Box: AI and the New Era of Techno-Superstition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Moral Duty to Explore Space (1): The Positive Case as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pandemics and Collective Grief as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Automation of Policing: Challenges and Opportunities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technological Unemployment and the Value of Work as a story · 1 points
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