It's also predominamtly used as a weapon by small, weak and loud men hiding behind silly beards to hide their true face.
The kind that makes me 🤮

The unbearable lightness of a premature obituary A certain breed of physicist seems to entertain a peculiar form of intellectual swagger that manifests in the casual dismissal of an entire two‑and‑a‑half‑millennium tradition.

A quick note on the peculiar idea among scientist that philosophy makes no progress
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Bayes and the resurrection On the improbability of proving the improbable

This triggered quite a bit of responses over on Twix. It's a reaction to a video which I shall not advertise. Google is your friend 😉
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I heard about this, then it was explained to me that many of these IBM typewriters had a connection to use it as a printer.
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Ten thousand bricks, no need for a house TwiX is a never-ending stream of writing prompts.

Short note on evidence vs theory
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On the unborrowed light Part I: The failure of epistemic exceptionalism

Clownery like this: "The core of the problem is that your worldview doesn't provide a justified epistemology to even critique arguments" sometimes make me 🤮, sometimes 😂and sometimes it makes me ✍️.
A two-parter for the weekend:
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OH MY GOSH DARN IT TO HECK, OF COURSE
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Just scribbled about the hypocritical fear of profanities in American media, check my Substack 😉

On the aesthetics of evasion or ”wh*t the f**k! In consideration of the bleep, the minced oath and the typographical dash in American public discourse

Thoughts at lunch after an evening of American TV.
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Bijna perfecte muziek, groep met een rotte plek.😉

The slow unspooling On mathematics, meaning and the machine in the ivory corridor

Sometimes, I must respond where I really shouldn't so here is a short response to a silly remark from the circus of ignorance: "But we know the ivory tower hates the large language models". 🙄
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On partial eternity Finitude, infinity and the direction of time

Some thoughts on one-way etenity
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The Large Language Oracle Intuitionism, algorithmic authority and the reconstruction of reason in a digital Dao

Another thought on AI in the real world
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The serious cost of trivial pursuits On the superficial engagement with artificial intelligence and the misdirection of the debate

Finishing a publication on the subject, here's a left-over thought for the weekend.
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Sometimes, uneducated religious clowns with less followers that Mr. J himself are more fun to write about than serious academia 😁
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The unbearable lightness of prevarication A treatise on the impossibility of the consistent liar

For the weekend, inspired by the famous House quote "Everybody lies"
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The sufficiency of nature as an ontological foundation A defence against theistic alternatives*

The noise in my head before I wake up.......
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How I learned to stop worrying… ...about Plato and love the mind: a quiet rebellion in mathematics

More or less on request, a quick and dirty note on the foundational concepts of intuitionism. A longer version will appear in print later this year.
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The Gospel according to Janis 1: The Genesis in the Haight

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In the beginning was the Signal, and the Signal was with God, and the Signal was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by it; and without it was not any thing made that was made. In it was life; and the life was the light of men.
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The first step in leaving a religion requires the strength to admit that you were on the wrong path.

The reasons for the seasons What holidays reveal about time, culture and the human need for narrative

An old theme that returns with the frequency of what it describes, just my 2 p.
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Apatheism, intuitionism and the irrelevance of theism The discourse surrounding belief and the absence of it can, and has been for centuries now, be characterised by a peculiar and persistent binary.

Apparently, I need to explain my position at least once a week 🙄
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The tyranny of the ‘Or’ In the hushed and hallowed corridors of classical logic, we find a certain furniture of the mind so deeply embedded as to be nearly invisible.

Quicky for the day, an old problem, I don't think there is a new way to explain
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The epistemic mirror Scientism, christianism and the critique of totalizing claims

Pushing back a bit on yet another gotcha argument
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Rejecting the square of opposition in intuitionistic logic A philosophical and logical analysis

Asked to explain things in a bar on a Saturday after dark, then get up on a Sunday before dark to scrible for clarity. I apologize if this appears too technical, I will try to come up with something more palatable later.
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A tiresome gotcha paradox On the unbearable subjectivity of being objective

A ramble before breakfast
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A bit technical view on a somewhat annoying false conflation in certain debates.
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The awe gap Artificial Intelligence and the quiet crisis of the digital public sphere

Popped a thingy on Medium for a change, a short chapter from Grounds & Notes 4 on AI and technology in real life, currently in progress
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Grounds & Notes 3: Thoughts across the fields of reason Grounds & Notes 3: Thoughts across the fields of reason [Chen, M.L.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Grounds & Notes 3: Thoughts across the fields of reason

Ready to order this weekend. In this one I will, among other sensitive topics, go over "Creation week" from a more scientific perspective, making certain people angry again. 😉
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The algorithm of acceptance On our swift embrace of artificial intelligence

Some thoughts on our hasty embracement of the future
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He probably thinks he will.