Foundations of Scientific Reality

Explores the epistemological limits of physics and science, questioning what counts as valid theory and whether reality is fundamentally computational or mathematical.

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2024-08-17 Truth-Seeking Modes
2024-07-14 Imagination vs. Creativity
2024-04-01 History is More Like Science Fiction Than Fantasy
2024-02-23 Economics Memes
2024-02-14 Mediocratopia: 13
2023-10-23 Vastness
2023-04-05 Permissionless Research
2023-03-30 Tessellations for the End of History
2022-09-16 ε/δ Thinking
2022-03-30 Fermi Estimates and Dyson Designs
2022-02-23 Divergentism
2022-02-10 Tools
2021-09-30 MJD 59,487
2021-09-02 MJD 59,459
2021-06-04 Non-Contact
2021-04-08 Here's why we don't understand heavier-than-air flight
2021-02-25 Here's why we don't understand what electricity is
2020-12-09 Stoned Strategy
2020-12-02 Pascal's Market
2020-09-23 Epistemic Reserve Notes
2020-09-03 Wittgenstein's Revenge
2020-03-09 Plot Economics
2020-02-18 Weirding Diary: 11
2020-01-24 How To See Voids
2020-01-18 MJD 58,866
2020-01-15 Predictable Identities 24: Anti-Identity
2019-12-25 Predictable Identities: 23 - The Self
2019-11-20 Predictable Identities: 21 - Enlightenment
2019-11-13 Mediocratopia: 9
2019-11-06 Predictable Identities: 20 - Self and Other Labeling
2019-10-15 Observability and Time
2019-10-02 Predictable Identities: 18 - Self-consistency
2019-08-28 Predictable Identities: 16 - Newcomblike, Part II
2019-08-15 Meaning as Ambiguity
2019-08-14 Predictable Identities: 15 - Newcomblike, Part I
2019-07-24 Predictable Identities: 14 - Frameworks are Fake
2019-07-10 Predictable Identities: 13 - Totalizing Ideologies
2019-06-26 Predictable Identities: 12 - Fear, Myths, and the Outgroup, Part II
2019-06-06 Predictable Identities: 11 - Fear, Myths and the Outgroup, Part I
2019-05-22 Predictable Identities: 10 - Big Updates
2019-04-15 Mediocratopia: 4
2019-03-28 What If We Already Know How to Live?
2019-03-20 Predictable Identities: 5 - Outgroup Homogeneity
2019-03-13 Predictable Identities: 4 - Stereotypes
2019-02-27 Predictable Identities: 2 - Active Inference
2019-02-04 Weirding Diary: 3
2019-01-10 Remembering Pierre Kabamba
2018-12-07 “Something Runs Through The Whole Thread”
2018-11-02 Treasure Hunting
2018-10-05 Light of the American Whale
2018-09-20 Dodo Thoughts
2018-08-23 Flying Blind into the Anthropocene
2018-08-09 Tarpits and Antiflocks
2018-06-14 Chekov's Gun and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
2018-06-12 The Well-Being Machine
2018-05-29 Reality Maintenance
2018-04-19 Symmetry and Identity
2018-03-13 Justifiable AI
2018-02-15 Make Your Own Rules
2018-02-08 Justice Fantasies
2018-01-25 Glitches, uh, find a way
2018-01-18 The Unapologetic Case For Bullshit
2017-12-14 A Glitch in the Theocratic Matrix
2017-11-16 Folk Concepts
2017-09-26 Common Sense Eats Common Talk
2017-09-07 The World As If
2017-08-10 Questions Are Not Just For Asking
2017-07-26 On Being Nosey
2017-07-06 The Power of Pettiness
2017-06-01 Why Books Are Fake
2017-05-04 Fluid Rigor
2017-04-18 Entrepreneurship is Metaphysical Labor
2017-04-13 Idiots Scaring Themselves in the Dark
2017-04-11 Zorba, Spock, or Voldemort?
2017-03-14 Sanity on the Weird Timeline
2017-03-02 The Limits of Epistemic Hygiene
2017-02-23 The Strategy of No Strategy
2017-02-21 Prescientific Organizational Theory
2017-02-14 Caring and Reality
2017-02-02 After Temporality
2017-01-31 The Throughput of Learning
2017-01-26 Games, Videogames, and the Dionysian Society
2017-01-12 Cannon Balls, Plate Tectonics, and Invisible Elephants
2016-11-17 Paradox and the Origins of Civilisation
2016-11-01 Ribbonfarm Longform Blogging Course: Nov 10 - 22
2016-10-06 The Art of the Conspiracy Theory
2016-09-22 Speak Weirdness to Truth
2016-09-07 Startups, Secrets, and Abductive Reasoning
2016-07-07 The Systems of the World
2016-06-16 Meta-Skills, Macro-Laws, and the Power of Constraints
2016-06-09 Goodhart's Law and Why Measurement is Hard
2016-06-02 The Theory of Narrative Selection
2016-05-26 How to Take Your Brain Off-Road
2016-03-31 Human-Complete Problems
2016-01-07 On Some Possibilities for Life as a Joke
2015-12-10 Field Theory of Swords
2015-12-01 Can You Hear Me Now?
2015-11-23 Artisanal Hand-Crafted Electrons
2015-11-12 The Awe Delusion
2015-11-05 Ritual Epistemology
2015-10-29 Quasiparticles and the Miracle of Emergence
2015-10-22 Distinctions and Differences
2015-10-13 The Berliners #1
2015-10-01 Meaning and Pointing
2015-09-24 Samuel Beckett's Guide to Particles and Antiparticles
2015-09-22 Significance Appreciation
2015-09-10 Why Nerds Have Bad Taste
2015-09-03 Cartographic Compression
2015-08-25 Learning is the Opposite of Healing
2015-08-20 A Children’s Picture-book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
2015-08-18 Extraordinary Laboratories
2015-07-30 The Chinese Compressibility Parable
2015-07-16 Cooperative Ignorance
2015-07-09 A Better Art Vocabulary, Part 2
2015-07-01 A Neptune Kid, Waiting to Always-Already Know Pluto
2015-06-23 Where do Electric Forces Come From?
2015-06-18 The Boydian Dialectic
2015-06-04 Puzzle Theory
2015-04-15 The Capitalist's Zombie
2015-01-16 On the Design of Escaped Realities
2015-01-08 Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture
2014-11-05 Don't Surround Yourself With Smarter People
2014-07-09 A Koan is not a Riddle
2014-06-25 Portals and Flags
2014-06-18 The Physics of Stamp Collecting
2014-05-15 Power Gradients and Spherical Cows
2014-05-08 Science! and Other Off-the-Wall Études
2014-02-20 The Cactus and the Weasel
2014-02-07 An Information Age Glossary
2014-01-28 Technical Debt of the West
2013-10-18 Frictional and Structural Unknowns
2013-10-18 The Government Within
2013-10-02 Truth in Consulting
2013-08-20 I and Thou and Life in Aspergerstan
2013-08-11 Personality Ambidexterity: Or How to Turn Yourself Inside-Out
2013-08-08 On Freedomspotting
2013-07-01 Coincidences and Correlations
2013-03-13 The Dead-Curious Cat and the Joyless Immortal
2013-03-05 Honesty and the Human Body
2013-02-19 The Cloistered Hedgehog and The Dislocated Fox
2012-12-08 Should You Count Near-Misses as Successes or Failures?
2012-11-27 Patterns of Refactored Agency
2012-09-17 Demystification versus Understanding
2012-08-30 The Varieties of Scientific Experience
2012-08-23 Waste, Creativity and Godwin's Corollary for Technology
2012-07-30 Literary Darwinism
2012-06-18 Analysis-Paralysis and The Sensemaking Trap
2012-06-11 Appreciative versus Manipulative Mental Models
2012-06-05 Towards an Appreciative View of Technology
2012-05-31 The Art of Refactored Perception
2012-05-17 Discussion Note: Sartre's Nausea vs. Future Nausea
2012-05-09 Welcome to the Future Nauseous
2012-05-03 Rediscovering Literacy
2012-04-26 Thinking in a Foreign Language
2012-03-29 Lawyer Mind, Judge Mind
2012-03-22 Can Hydras Eat Unknown-Unknowns for Lunch?
2012-01-11 Seeking Density in the Gonzo Theater
2011-08-26 The Scientific Sensibility
2011-07-22 Tempo and OODA: The Backstory
2011-06-03 Towards Thick Strategy Narratives
2011-05-16 Strategies, Counter-examples and the UnAha! Experience
2011-05-12 Functional Fixedness and Kata Learning
2011-05-08 Darwin, Some Rationalists and the Joker
2011-05-04 The One Way of the Beginner
2011-01-19 Boundary Condition Thinking
2010-10-07 How Good Becomes the Enemy of Great
2010-09-28 Learning from One Data Point
2010-06-30 The Philosopher's Abacus
2010-05-19 Intellectual Gluttony
2010-04-08 Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein
2010-03-23 Amy Lin and the Ancient Eye
2010-02-09 Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
2010-01-28 The Misanthrope's Guide to the End of the World
2009-12-22 How to Make New Year's Calibrations (Rerun)
2009-10-02 A Brewing Storm in Psychology
2009-09-14 Knowing and Caring
2009-08-31 How to Think Like Hercule Poirot
2009-08-16 The Tragicomic Exasperations of Expertise
2009-08-06 On Seeing Like a Cat
2009-08-03 The Brain of the World
2009-05-15 The Discovery of Money
2009-04-20 How to Draw and Judge Quadrant Diagrams
2009-03-02 Fools and their Money Metaphors
2008-12-03 Brain Rules by John Medina
2008-06-20 The Three-Leaps-of-Faith Rule
2008-06-09 How Geniuses Think
2008-05-26 Information Overload and the FOOD IS THOUGHT Metaphor
2008-03-27 The Founding Fathers of Technology
2008-03-05 The UnAha! Experience
2008-02-11 Book Review and Summary: Strategic Intuition
2008-01-31 The Broken Brain Books
2008-01-24 How to Pick Business and Self-Improvement Books
2007-12-16 Sapir-Whorf, Lakoff, Metaphor and Thought
2007-11-22 Visual Thinking with Triangles
2007-11-17 A Surfer's Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
2007-10-15 Meditation on Disequilibrium in Nature
2007-10-01 Where is I?
2007-09-24 Strategy, Tactics, Operations and Doctrine: A decision-language tutorial
2007-09-15 BBC Documentary Featuring Gregory Chaitin
2007-09-09 Digital Philosophy II: Are Cellular Automata Important?
2007-08-27 Dan Pink, Howard Gardner and the Da Vinci Mind
2007-08-16 Digital Philosophy - I: The Real is Unreal
2007-08-13 The Parrot
2007-07-30 Breadth-Depth Metaphors and Beyond
2007-07-26 Framing the Consciousness Debates
2007-07-22 Book Review: Competing on Analytics
2007-07-17 Visualizing the 2d World with Cartograms
2007-07-06 Harry Potter and the Concept of Magic
2007-07-04 Book Reviews: The Trouble with Physics, Not Even Wrong
2007-06-21 How to Define Concepts
2007-06-14 Concepts and Prototypes