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Rafe Champion
Personal blog · the-rathouse.comphilosophyeconomics
Rafe Champion's personal blog at the-rathouse.com covers philosophy and economics. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for essays on Karl Popper's view of knowledge progressing by conjecture and refutation, and on Richard Hamming's idea of having an "attack" on a research problem.
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Karl Popper's philosophy analysed by Rafe Champion. The site looks at the writings of Popper, Hayek and Mises, Barzun, classical liberalism and imaginative criticism.Articles,essays and reviews.
What Hacker News says?
The work of Karl Popper suggests than human knowledge also progresses in an evolutionary manner, by conjecture and refutation. So something resembling natural selection must be going on in our brains. http://www.the-rathouse.com/CRContents.html
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on “Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)”Submitted Speculations about the Rise of Polyphonic Music (1976) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionRichard Hamming wrote that serious scientists should have a list of problems that they would like to work on, but they can't work on all of them at the same time, and some are off the active list because there is no attack available. An attack is "a good starting place, some reasonable idea of how to begin." This is an article that will help you understand "attack" . http://www.the-rathouse.com/2013/Fanaticism.html
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on “Ask HN: What does it mean to have a attack on a problem”Submitted Of Clouds and Clocks as a story · 1 points
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