The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One pound of inference, no more, no less. No humbug, no cant, but only inference. This task done, and he would go free.

Showing posts with label Rationality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rationality. Show all posts
Friday, November 7, 2014

They're all IQ tests, you just didn't know it

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Here's one to file under the category of 'things that may have been obvious to most well-adjusted people, but were at least a little...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Of Behavioural Red Flags and Unfunded Campaign Promises

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One of the key meta-points of the rationality crowd  is that one needs to explicitly think about problem-solving, because one's intuitio...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Hate Generalisations? You Probably Just Hate Statistics

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One of the most oft-repeated nonsense claims by a certain type of low-wattage intellectual lefty is that one 'shouldn't generalise...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Fatties Are Optimising

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Let me repeat a frequent refrain that I hear from smug skinny people from time to time: Hur hur hur. Look at that fat guy at McDonalds, get...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Burn That Money!

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I suspect I joined the ranks of the 'sufficiently wealthy to not sweat the small stuff' when I stopped noticing petrol prices very m...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Things I've been doing instead of writing blog posts

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Reading up on the writings of Mencius Moldbug .I'm about halfway through the 'How Richard Dawkins Got Pwned' essays, where he cl...
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