Wisdom in SpaceHe who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
-- Chinese Proverb
Hacker NewsThe bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it
https://world.hey.com/jason/the-bespoke-software-revolution-i-m-not-buying-it-4bfad9ec
#HackerNews #bespoke #software #revolution #software #development #critique #technology #trends #skepticism
The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it.
A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built in all the wrong ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course t...
N-gated Hacker NewsAh, the classic "I'm too cool for the future" stance. 😎 Terence is proudly waving his #luddite flag, convinced that #Bitcoin is just a passing fad, like pet rocks or fidget spinners. 🌱 But hey, who needs technological progress when you can just blog about how much you don't care? 🙃
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/ #skepticism #technology #trends #blogging #HackerNews #ngated
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/ #skepticism #technology #trends #blogging #HackerNews #ngated
I'm OK being left behind, thanks!
Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going…
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London
More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82852…
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Carlyle, Thomas - Lecture (1840-05-22), "The Hero as King," Home House, Portman Square, London | WIST Quotations
Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see. The lecture…
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers
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🧠✨ Ah yes, the magical #cannabis cure-all strikes again! Next, they'll claim it can make you fly and turn water into wine 🍷. Meanwhile, the Salk Institute is busy patting themselves on the back for "discovering" the #cannabinoid fountain of youth. 🙄
https://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-brain-cells/ #cureall #SalkInstitute #fountainofyouth #skepticism #magicalclaims #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-brain-cells/ #cureall #SalkInstitute #fountainofyouth #skepticism #magicalclaims #HackerNews #ngated
Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer’s proteins from brain cells - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
LA JOLLA–Salk Institute scientists have found preliminary evidence that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other compounds found in marijuana can promote the cellular removal of amyloid beta, a toxic protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
LupposofiFolke Tersman has revised his SEP-entry on Moral Disagreement, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disagreement-moral/
The author on Uppsala University's pages, https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N8-3
#ethics #morality #moralPhilosophy #philosophy #filosofia #etiikka #metaetiikka #metaethics #disagreement #erimielisyys #kiista #hyvä #paha #good #evil #bad #right #wrong #MorallyWrong #cognitivism #psychology #relativism #skepticism #realism #epistemology #uppsala
HoldMyType#Mīmāṃsā, one of the six orthodox schools of Indian #philosophy, developed a rich #epistemology that directly engages with problems very similar to the induction problem in physics — though from a completely different angle.
#mathematicalinduction
vyāpti (invariable concomitance)
establishing a universal, exceptionless relationship between two things
Svataḥ prāmāṇya — intrinsic validity of knowledge
Arthāpatti — postulation
Mīmāṃsā recognized arthāpatti (circumstantial implication) as a distinct pramāṇa (source of knowledge), separate from inference. It's the move of positing something that must be true to account for an observed fact — e.g., "Devadatta is alive but not at home, therefore he must be outside." This is closer to abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) than induction, and is arguably what physicists actually do when they posit unobserved entities or laws.
Śabda and bypassing induction
Mīmāṃsā's deeper move was to ground reliable universal knowledge not in empirical induction at all, but in śabda — Vedic testimony, which they held to be eternal and authorless (apauruṣeya). This is philosophically bold: if you need a bedrock of non-inductive, non-empirical universal truth, you appeal to something outside the empirical cycle entirely. Physicists can't do this — they have no equivalent of the Vedas — which is precisely why the induction problem bites harder in physics.
#physics
self-validity of knowledge was precisely a defense against this kind of total #skepticism
#mathematicalinduction
vyāpti (invariable concomitance)
establishing a universal, exceptionless relationship between two things
Svataḥ prāmāṇya — intrinsic validity of knowledge
Arthāpatti — postulation
Mīmāṃsā recognized arthāpatti (circumstantial implication) as a distinct pramāṇa (source of knowledge), separate from inference. It's the move of positing something that must be true to account for an observed fact — e.g., "Devadatta is alive but not at home, therefore he must be outside." This is closer to abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) than induction, and is arguably what physicists actually do when they posit unobserved entities or laws.
Śabda and bypassing induction
Mīmāṃsā's deeper move was to ground reliable universal knowledge not in empirical induction at all, but in śabda — Vedic testimony, which they held to be eternal and authorless (apauruṣeya). This is philosophically bold: if you need a bedrock of non-inductive, non-empirical universal truth, you appeal to something outside the empirical cycle entirely. Physicists can't do this — they have no equivalent of the Vedas — which is precisely why the induction problem bites harder in physics.
#physics
self-validity of knowledge was precisely a defense against this kind of total #skepticism
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To realize the relative validity of our convictions, and yet stand for them unflinchingly, is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.
-- Joseph Schumpeter
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