Tag: Karl Popper
4 posts tagged "Karl Popper".
Austrian-British philosopher of science (1902–1994) who reframed epistemology around falsifiability: a theory is scientific only if it can in principle be refuted by evidence. In The Logic of Scientific Discovery he replaced naive induction with conjecture-and-refutation, and in The Open Society and Its Enemies he defended liberal democracy against totalitarian utopianism. His critical rationalism holds that knowledge advances not by proof but by error-elimination — a stance later radicalised by David Deutsch into a theory of unbounded progress. Popper shadows the blog's interest in how we tell good ideas from bad.
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Cormac McCarthy's Metaphysical Horror Show
In this last-ditch diptych, your crusty 89-year-old literary grandaddy completely changes tack, holding forth on the biggest philosophical and scientific questions of our age.
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Highlights From the Comments on AI Doom
My coming-out post on why I'm no longer an AI doomer seems to have struck a nerve.
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Weaponised Autism as the Font of Human Creativity
What makes humans special? How is it that we are able to unleash the energy of the atom, while our hominid ancestors gather dust in the natural history museum?
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Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity
Pound-for-pound The Beginning of Infinity has to be the densest collection of batshit-crazy ideas I've ever come across.
