Tag Archives: utility

Synaptic Growth (Economics)

By Raelifin | Published: May 16, 2011

I am not a motorist. I dislike most everything about cars, and I do not drive (or even know how). I get rides between places that aren’t practical to walk to bike to, but when I have free time I like to be impractical and walk between them anyway, even if it takes me several [...]

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Simple Rationality

By Raelifin | Published: March 3, 2011

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to post this. Several weeks ago I was playing a turn-based fighting game that I love, and I got to thinking “what would an AI that plays this game well look like?” And as I thought about it, it became clear to me that the challenge [...]

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Beyond Popper

By Raelifin | Published: July 1, 2010

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine recently about the nature of knowledge. As with just about any discussion of epistemology with me, much of the conversation was about critical rationalism. In this discussion, I came to realize something. One of the key foundations of critical rationalism is the idea that no [...]

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