Joy in Discovery

Joy in the Merely Real

Sa­vanna Poets

Fake Reductionism

Ex­plain­ing vs. Ex­plain­ing Away

Reductionism

Qual­i­ta­tively Confused

Pen­guicon & Blook

The Quo­ta­tion is not the Referent

Prob­a­bil­ity is in the Mind

Mind Pro­jec­tion Fallacy

Right­ing a Wrong Question

Wrong Questions

Dis­solv­ing the Question

Gary Gy­gax An­nihilated at 69

37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

Vari­able Ques­tion Fallacies

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes 11

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes 10

Words as Men­tal Paint­brush Handles

Con­di­tional In­de­pen­dence, and Naive Bayes

Search­ing for Bayes-Structure

Per­pet­ual Mo­tion Beliefs

The Se­cond Law of Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics, and Eng­ines of Cognition

Leave a Line of Retreat

Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial Con­ceptspace, and Sim­ple Words

Mu­tual In­for­ma­tion, and Den­sity in Thingspace

En­tropy, and Short Codes

Where to Draw the Boundary?

Ar­gu­ing “By Defi­ni­tion”

Sneak­ing in Connotations

Cat­e­go­riz­ing Has Consequences

Fal­la­cies of Compression

Re­place the Sym­bol with the Substance

Ta­boo Your Words

Clas­sic Sichuan in Millbrae, Thu Feb 21, 7pm

Empty Labels

The Ar­gu­ment from Com­mon Usage

Feel the Meaning

Disput­ing Definitions

How An Al­gorithm Feels From Inside

Neu­ral Categories

Dis­guised Queries

The Cluster Struc­ture of Thingspace

Typ­i­cal­ity and Asym­met­ri­cal Similarity

Similar­ity Clusters

Buy Now Or For­ever Hold Your Peace

Ex­ten­sions and Intensions

Words as Hid­den Inferences

The Parable of Hemlock