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by nqureshi 14y ago
Ah interesting - are you a philosopher? What family of philosophy do you tend to focus on?
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Thanks. You question whether it's really seen as that eccentric: I've actually corresponded with a bunch of UK philosophers about Wittgenstein, all of whom regard his earlier work as vaguely interesting if subsequently outmoded (a more or l
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Surprisingly undervalued books(blog.nabeelqu.com)
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Choice blindness(lesswrong.com)
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by nqureshi 14y ago
An experience I had as a teenager really drove this lesson home for me, and is partly responsible for successes I’ve had since. My Dad had copy of ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’ by Betty Edwards lying around. I’d always been reall
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by nqureshi 14y ago
Firstly, congrats on making a webapp - as someone who taught himself web development, I know how much work it takes. So well done. A few comments, in the spirit of honest feedback: (1) Your problem isn't making it more social right now. You
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by nqureshi 14y ago
Saying p=0.5 necessarily implies the 1/2 thing. Neither implies any stance on whether it's subjective/objective so far. The 'objective' conclusion there requires the further fact of mind-independence, which is based on 'you can't change the
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by nqureshi 14y ago
Thanks. Did you check out the link to the general paper? One of my favourite questions from there: "Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants are wearing Nazi uniforms?"
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I'm answering questions from the 'hardest exam in the world'(blog.nabeelqu.com)
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