outubro 25, 2011
outubro 24, 2011
Guilherme de Ockham
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outubro 19, 2011
Liberalismo
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outubro 17, 2011
outubro 13, 2011
the only question that really matters
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outubro 12, 2011
Corte
Como na separação da Igreja e do Estado, precisamos da separação das Corporações e do Estado.
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outubro 11, 2011
Navalha
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outubro 06, 2011
Contra-exemplos
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outubro 03, 2011
Gestão
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setembro 28, 2011
Passos vs. Saltos
[1] Brian Weatherson, What good are counterexamples (2003)
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setembro 26, 2011
Tons de Cinzento
"When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." The Relativity of Wrong, Isaac AsimovThe Sophisticate: The world isn't black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It's all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.
The Zetet: Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view... - David's Sling, Marc Stiegler
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setembro 15, 2011
Definições
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setembro 13, 2011
Justificações Post-Hoc
"Humans are very good as seeing patterns, making connections, and coming up with explanations for phenomena. Almost anything can be explained in retrospect, and it only takes a couple of apparent connections to make such explanations seem compelling. That is actually the fatal flaw of such post-hoc reasoning – it can be used to explain anything. Therefore, the fact that someone can invent a post-hoc justification is not predictive that the explanation is actually true. In other words – we tend to be naively impressed with the fact that an explanation is available. We tend to assume that a phenomenon would not have an explanation, or alternative explanation, if that explanation were not true. We therefore find it satisfying, and therefore compelling, when such an explanation is available. However, the human capacity for invention and pattern seeking is profound. We can find an explanation for anything – and so the availability of such an explanation should not be compelling at all." - Juicy Post-Hoc Reasoning, Steven Novella
Por João Neto às 12:38 0 comentário(s)
setembro 04, 2011
O impacto progressivamente desastroso das patentes
"The way the US patent system is currently set up, it’s difficult if not impossible to write a sizable body of code without unknowingly infringing on somebody’s patent. Your best hope seems to be to waste a lot of time filing as many patents as you can of your own, and hoping that anybody who sues you is unknowingly infringing on one of yours. That gives you a bargaining chip so you can do some kind of cross licensing deal. It’s a stupid, wasteful, unproductive government-created system that achieves the exact opposite of what was intended when it was first started. But, what can you do." - Ed Burnette
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junho 27, 2011
Who’s Afraid of the Naturalistic Fallacy?
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junho 23, 2011
junho 21, 2011
Domínio
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junho 15, 2011
Um rio de ideias
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junho 10, 2011
Relevância
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junho 06, 2011
Viagens
Uma maravilhosa curta de Chris Abbas baseada nas imagens da missão Cassini a Saturno.
CASSINI MISSION from cabbas on Vimeo
Outra curta, de Semiconductor, baseado nas imagens do satélite solar STEREO, onde se pode observar a dinâmica do Sol.
Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Por João Neto às 14:54 0 comentário(s)
junho 01, 2011
Moral Push vs. Moral Pull
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maio 26, 2011
Derek Parfit
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maio 25, 2011
Pluralismo
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maio 20, 2011
maio 17, 2011
Linguagem
"What is meant by the word red?"
"It's a color."
"What's a color?"
"Why, it's a quality things have."
"What's a quality?"
"Say, what are you trying to do, anyway?"You have pushed him into the clouds. If, on the other hand, we habitually go down the abstraction ladder to lower levels of abstraction when we are asked the meaning of a word, we are less likely to get lost in verbal mazes; we will tend to "have our feet on the ground" and know what we are talking about. This habit displays itself in an answer such as this:
"What is meant by the word red?"
"Well, the next time you see some cars stopped at an intersection, look at the traffic light facing them. Also, you might go to the fire department and see how their trucks are painted."-- S. I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action [via Less Wrong]
Por João Neto às 12:01 0 comentário(s)
maio 09, 2011
Dinâmica
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maio 05, 2011
Traduções
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abril 29, 2011
abril 25, 2011
A linguagem da felicidade
Por João Neto às 07:41 0 comentário(s)
abril 21, 2011
Dissolução
"Imagine a language in which, instead of saying ‘I found nobody in the room’ one said, ‘I found Mr. Nobody in the room.’ Imagine the philosophical problems that would arise out of such a convention." Wittgenstein, The Blue Book
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