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nath-ormond.bsky.social
aka: Digital Gnosis, aka "Digital Know Nothing" Software Engineer Philosopher (MSc) -- Wittgensteinian / Pragmatist / Naturalist Statistics (MS in progress) Christian ( no metaphysics ) linktr.ee/digitalgnosis
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Looking forward to my debate with J Fodor on Language of Thought youtube.com/live/DDjkoXQ...

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You can now download a complete version of *Introducing Category Theory* from www.logicmatters.net/categories. Just needs final proofreading. Has it any virtues? Well, at least it might distract you for a while, as the world goes to hell in a handcart ... #mathsky #philsky

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For @seanmcarroll.bsky.social -- similar to how you've carefully tried to operationalise terms like "emergence", is there anything you've done looking at different ways terms like "information", "explanation" and "computation" are used in different fields? -- I think these are v important

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The “Overdiagnosis” Confusion “Overdiagnosis” is a blunt verdict offering blunt solutions www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-overdi...

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Had a lovely chat with @nath-ormond.bsky.social about @hossenfelder.bsky.social's incredible new video on the scientific evidence for qualia! www.youtube.com/live/h82NxaK...

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Talking with @philipgoff.bsky.social -- Have Scientists "Found" Qualia (review of @hossenfelder.bsky.social ) youtube.com/live/h82NxaK...

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I've read two books from Blackburn (one about Truth) which I really enjoyed. Will certainly watch this bsky.app/profile/nath...

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Just finished interviewing Simon Blackburn on Truth and Pragmatism: www.youtube.com/live/hjfRmRm...

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Data Colada with a lovely and important defense of the importance of internal validity. Like Mook (1983) in his defense of external invalidity psycnet.apa.org/record/1984-... an important reminder that the goal of experiments is often NOT geberalizability across stimuli.

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Exposing incompetence as a use case for LLMs. In this article, I argue that AI hallucinations are a feature, not a bug, for providing incontrovertible evidence that someone is fucking basic…

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My good friend @helendecruz.net is currently in hospice after a long battle with cancer, and has written this beautiful piece reflecting on what is truly of value in life. helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

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I have upwards of 100 blog posts I've started but havent completed 😂 Many ideas, little time! @philipgoff.bsky.social

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ACTUAL discourses, as opposed to JUST MERE discourses open.substack.com/pub/nathanor...

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This cites @williamcallison.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @nath-ormond.bsky.social @gealga.bsky.social @jillybkay.bsky.social @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social @jeffsharlet.bsky.social @nberlat.bsky.social @bellacaledonia.bsky.social @robtoes.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social among others:

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If Freedom is Freedom to say "2+2 equals 4", then Freedom is also Freedom to say "2+2 does not equal 4". open.substack.com/pub/nathanor...

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Live now BA on The Surprising Rebirth www.youtube.com/live/68MSSzE...

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@awaisaftab.bsky.social is doing so much to help make psychiatry sensible. The questions he posed about #EvolutionaryPsychiatry helped me to get a better grasp of my own field! See the full version on his substack www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Only The Correspondence Theory of Truth can save The West open.substack.com/pub/nathanor...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

The Correspondence Theory of Truth open.substack.com/pub/nathanor...

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This is awful language in this context. There *is* a risk of us becoming a country of strangers but that's from social atomisation and a lack of shared and binding experiences, coming from multiple fragmentations in what makes communities. To blame it all on immigration is far-right rhetoric.

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Cool paper on teaching psychology and biases favouring "cognitive" (hand waving) assumptions pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Going live in a couple of minutes with DOCTOR Lance Bush, What's Wrong with Annaka Harris's Philosophy of Mind www.youtube.com/live/L3GuX3b...

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