Unenumerated

Argument from authority ("I'm the expert") goes hand-in-hand with the ad hominem ("you're not"). Each may be re...

G.K. Chesterton ponders a fence: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple princip...

From Algorithmic Information Theory: Charles Bennett has discovered an objective measurement for sophistication. An example of sophisticatio...

Besides the robot apocalypse, there are many other, and often more important, examples of Pascal scams.   The following may be or may have b...

Beware of what I call Pascal's scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that ...

Perhaps I should take up Twitter, but I already have this blog, and even my short takes tend to go a bit over 140 characters. So here goes: ...

During my blog absence, I've been studying, designing, and implementing a style of programming I call temporal programming . It is use...

The subjective theory of value, used by the Salamanca school in Renaissance Spain and most recently in neoclassical and Austrian economics, ...

The Black Death, caused (as DNA testing of victims has recently confirmed) by the bubonic plague, Yersina pestis , swept through Europe pri...

Progress in the Malthusian isocline in England from the 13th through 19th centuries, as, among many other factors, horses slowly replaced ox...

So asks gwern in a spectacular display of hindsight. The short answer about why it took so long is that the bit gold/Bitcoin ideas were now...