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Inductive arguments are *actually weaker* than more direct arguments. It means your result doesn't apply to non-well-founded objects, or to more heterogeneous structures (not built only out of the building blocks you allowed in your induction). This can easily matter in software.
Think what you will of the simulation hypothesis -- fiction is a biased sample, entirely favoring universes simulated at low fidelity and showing signs of a designer's hand.
Decision theory as the rigorous study of subjective solutions to ill-defined problems.
Travel to a neighboring town. Treat it like a foreign country. Try to learn the language and customs. Make fast friends with the locals. Sample the food. Return home forever changed. Write a popular travel guide.
Paying more than a dollar in a dollar auction doesn't automatically make you irrational. Only if you'd predictable do so. This is a bit similar to the observation that waiting time distributions in no way have to reduce expected time left as you wait.
It wouldn't be a cult if everyone would just get on board with it!
It's not called regulatory capture when the government is the one doing it.
Some people will anthropomorphize anything, even their own children.
When you think a thing is antifragile, you shake it to help it.
"Grand unification is physics, not biology. Reductionism is physics, not biology"
Excited to be alive in fifty years when someone finally works out why p vs np was a fundamentally difficult problem.
Is the mechanism which causes forgetting of dreams active at other times?
Prey evolve camouflage in an evolutionary arms race with predators, but does it have a side effect of making the world just really confusing for other animals?
Ecologists understand good and evil. Ethicists understand what's needed for a well-functioning collection of interacting organisms in an environment.
"If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you strike me, do I not ring like a bell?"
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