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BayleShanks
= Bayle Shanks's website = Welcome to my website. My email address is http://bayleshanks.com/gmail_email_small.jpg . . .
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notes
* [Self:notes-dontPanic dontPanic] * [Self:notes-henryMillersElevenCommandments henryMillersElevenCommandments] . . .
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notes--index
* [Self:notes-dontPanic dontPanic] * [Self:notes-henryMillersElevenCommandments henryMillersElevenCommandments] . . .
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notes-cog-ai-reasoning-aiReasoningNotes
See also [[notes-philosophy-logic]]. . . .
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notes-cog-rationality-rationality
The Wikipedia summary of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_Analytics . . .
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notes-group-rationality
one guy's idea of an enumeration of the actions available during debate: " The defender then responds . . .
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notes-groupDecisionMaking-groupIrrationality
There is a theorem that a group composed of rational individuals which have collective beliefs decided . . .
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notes-life-happiness
= How to be Happy = The contents of this page is just my uninformed opinion. It will probably be pretty . . .
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notes-philosophy
* [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics ethics] * [Self:notes-philosophy-isTheWorldWonderfulOrHorrible isTheWorldWonderfulOrHorrible] . . .
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notes-philosophy--index
* [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics ethics] * [Self:notes-philosophy-isTheWorldWonderfulOrHorrible isTheWorldWonderfulOrHorrible] . . .
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notes-philosophy-academia
theory: activity whose goal is understanding == Discipline == 3 meanings of "discipline" (as in, "interdisciplinary"): . . .
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notes-philosophy-aristotle
Aristotle invents the syllogism in his book Prior Analytics. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundational_crisis_of_mathematics#Foundational_crisis . . .
2K - last updated 2013-08-23 09:28 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-philosophy-computationIsNotFree
and exhaustive search is unnatural. And logical operators other than AND are harder to remember. Implications . . .
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notes-philosophy-computationalPragmatism
== Computational pragmatism == I am considering a view that i call "computational pragmatism". It seems . . .
7K - last updated 2015-02-09 04:57 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-philosophy-dualism
if there is a 'mind' domain besides the domain of 'matter', there seem to be different connotations to . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics
* [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-onMorality onMorality] * [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-etiquetteAndComputationIsNotFree . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics--index
* [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-onMorality onMorality] * [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-etiquetteAndComputationIsNotFree . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-abstractEvil
i'd like to find an abstraction/generalization of evil to a game-theoretic-ish description. Such an abstraction . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-abstractGood
Perhaps even more difficult than finding a definition of [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-abstractEvil abstract . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-competence
[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?pagewanted=all Haidt describes five universal . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-deontologicalVsUtilitarian
* [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-deontologicalVsUtilitarian-utilitarianIsMoreContextDependent utilitarianIsMoreContextDependent] . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-deontologicalVsUtilitarian--index
* [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-deontologicalVsUtilitarian-utilitarianIsMoreContextDependent utilitarianIsMoreContextDependent] . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-deontologicalVsUtilitarian-jointIndividualUtility
Note that utilitarianism need not be based only on hedonism, that is, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-deontologicalVsUtilitarian-pluralism
" One of Prof. Walzer's most fascinating contributions to the field of political theory is his introduction . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-deontologicalVsUtilitarian-utilitarianIsMoreContextDependent
One argument for deontological (or superficially deontological, such as rule-based utilitarian) ethics . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-descriptiveEthics
* [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-descriptiveEthics-lifestyleLockIn lifestyleLockIn] . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-descriptiveEthics--index
* [Self:notes-philosophy-ethics-descriptiveEthics-lifestyleLockIn lifestyleLockIn] . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-descriptiveEthics-lifestyleLockIn
It seems to me that people do things that they otherwise would not do when they are placed in a position . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-ethics
http://kishcom.com/the_golden_rule.jpg . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-ethicsMisc
http://web.archive.org/web/20081002182008/http://kishcom.com/the_golden_rule.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-etiquetteAndComputationIsNotFree
Another place where my "Computation is not free" programme might touch is etiquette. Etiquette is particularly . . .
4K - last updated 2014-06-28 00:35 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-philosophy-ethics-jointUtility
If we assume that we have a formula for utility for one person, what mathematical function do we then . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-lying
i'm considering the idea that it's okay for a human individual to lie under duress or who is personally . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-onMorality
''This essay is under construction'' This is an attempt to put forward my personal system of morality/ethics. . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-onMoralityAndEthics
Under construction!! Morality and ethics == What this essay is about == Ideally I would present here . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-purity
[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?pagewanted=all Haidt counts "purity" . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-stochasticNonIntervention
Often you get the sense that, if there is a chance that something will do good and a chance that it will . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-theGood
if we presume the concept of the good, is morality just being a 'good' person? then 'must' and 'may" . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-timeManagement
no one should be considered to have done something wrong because of how they choose to spend their time, . . .
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notes-philosophy-ethics-weakUtilitarianism
Define strong utilitarianism as "you should maximize utility" Define weak utilitarianism as "if you would . . .
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notes-philosophy-freeWill
i had an idea today and upon looking it up i found that Popper had it first: "Karl Popper did make an . . .
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notes-philosophy-isTheWorldWonderfulOrHorrible
Clearly, reality contains both wonderful and horrible things. But the question is, on balance, is reality . . .
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notes-philosophy-kant
18: the transcendental unity of apperception many representations of one object many objects fall under . . .
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notes-philosophy-listsOfTopPhilosophyJournals
Lists of top English-language philosophy journals the 4 English-language "high-impact, highly-selective, . . .
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notes-philosophy-logic
* [Self:notes-philosophy-logic-logicNotes logicNotes] * [Self:notes-philosophy-logic-aristotleVsKantVsModernFormalLogic . . .
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notes-philosophy-logic--index
* [Self:notes-philosophy-logic-logicNotes logicNotes] * [Self:notes-philosophy-logic-aristotleVsKantVsModernFormalLogic . . .
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notes-philosophy-logic-aristotleVsKantVsModernFormalLogic
* aristotle and modern logic apparently disagree on what to do about 'vacuous implication'. My friend . . .
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notes-philosophy-logic-logicNotes
* http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.1787 Jingde Cheng. Entailment Calculus as . . .
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notes-philosophy-logic-paraconsistentLogic
* http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/ * http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contradiction/#GapGluLNCDis . . .
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notes-philosophy-logic-paradoxesOfMaterialImplication
* http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/mat-imp.htm . . .
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notes-philosophy-meaningAnts
it seems to be that one of the main goals of my life is to find those rare transcendent moments. i suppose . . .
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notes-philosophy-ontologicalConceptsAsPragmaticFormalAbstractions
Here i discuss an approach to a particular subset of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_universals . . .
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notes-philosophy-philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/, is very useful especially for rigorous . . .
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notes-philosophy-philosophyGeekCode
Just an idea. Modeled after http://www.geekcode.com/ . Things like "Realism: are you a realist, a nominalist, . . .
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notes-philosophy-philosophyNotes
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/, is very useful especially for rigorous . . .
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notes-philosophy-philosophyOfHistory
Is there progress in history? I think there might be, because slavery (and to a lesser extent, war) used . . .
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notes-philosophy-philosophyOpinions
== On things which are hard to communicate == I think many of the most important things that I discovered . . .
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notes-philosophy-philosophyOpinions2
p "The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things . . .
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notes-philosophy-rationality
* [Self:notes-philosophy-rationality-definitions definitions] * [Self:notes-philosophy-rationality-pillarsOfModernism . . .
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notes-philosophy-rationality--index
* [Self:notes-philosophy-rationality-definitions definitions] * [Self:notes-philosophy-rationality-pillarsOfModernism . . .
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notes-philosophy-rationality-definitions
some words have definitions (reducible), others are like Yvain's [http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_questions_about/ . . .
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notes-philosophy-rationality-pillarsOfModernism
== Factual beliefs cannot be unethical, only incorrect == * Belief in a factual/verifiable/objective . . .
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notes-philosophy-rationality-rationality
--- todo should combine the pages [Self:notes-rationality], [Self:notes-cog-rationality], [Self:notes-philosophy-rationality], . . .
1K - last updated 2015-01-29 03:26 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-philosophy-semanticsOfPossible
What are the various possible semantics of the word 'possible'? * Kant has a trichotomy between necessity, . . .
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notes-philosophy-shermer is ought
" Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist, Scientific American; Author, The Believing . . .
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notes-philosophy-utilitarianism
My friend ROF once pointed out an important failing of utilitarianism, namely, it is not obvious what . . .
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notes-rationality
Should rationality be determined by maximizing expected value or by maximizing the median or by maximizing . . .
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