Unearned Wisdom archive
Articles
Perception - In defense of idleness Risk Taking - The precautionary principle Decision Making - The problem with the regret minimization framework - Don’t try Epistemology - The problem of knowledge - The taboo of uncertainty - The dialectic purpose - What i
Perception
Risk Taking
- The precautionary principle
Decision Making
- The problem with the regret minimization framework
- Don’t try
Epistemology
- The problem of knowledge
- The taboo of uncertainty
- The dialectic purpose
- What is truth
- The difference between intelligence and wisdom
The Self
Ancient Philosophy
Cognitive Bias
- When not to argue
- The rationality of confirmation bias
- The sin of representativeness
Philosophy of Religion
- Girard and the problem of divine hiddenness
- Three ways the Bible is taken out of context
- The problem with the Sam Harris cookbook example
- Thelogosargument or “why atheists aren’t atheists”
- The role of myths
Debates
- The munk debate on the rise of populism
- Triggered Sam Harris versus Scott Adams on the post truth world
- Jordan Peterson versus Matt Dillahunty
Philosophy of Technology
- Is technology a curse?
- The singularity
- The nature of technological constraints
- The arguments of the singularity is near
- When Harari warned Daniel Kahneman about the future
- A history of iron and blood
- Technology is not neutral
- Godel, Escher, Bach and A.I.
- How AI is changing the way we live