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Tag: scepticism

Posted on November 23, 2018November 23, 2018
Cat Links Letters

#62 On Foundations

Dear Jamie, Congratulations for drafting the final chapter of your thesis! You’ve already managed the whole thing with much more grace than I did. I’m writing this bit before IContinue reading#62 On Foundations

Posted on August 15, 2017August 15, 2017
Cat Links Letters

#33 On scepticism

Dear Mat, Even if we cast aside our ideological, manufactured maps it doesn’t quite mean that we’re mapless. Surely the process of evolution endowed us with a series of inherited maps. Continue reading#33 On scepticism

Posted on August 4, 2017August 4, 2017
Cat Links Letters

#32 On acting on maps

Dear Jamie I’m forced to skip over those first few paragraphs based on “economic “modelling because as you said, a little bit of information changes the outcome completely. This isContinue reading#32 On acting on maps

Posted on July 11, 2016July 18, 2016
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#3 On the intolerance of rigour

Dear Jamie, I was embarrassed that you described it as a “perennial question”. It made me feel as though I’m out of this loop that all artists talk about allContinue reading#3 On the intolerance of rigour

Posted on April 14, 2015March 22, 2019
Cat Links Blog, Essays

Islamophobic? Maybe

There is a significant overlap between those who criticise Islam and those who have a cultural fear of Middle Eastern Muslim migrants. The latter is surely what people mean when they speak of Islamophobia:Continue readingIslamophobic? Maybe

Posted on August 1, 2014August 1, 2014
Cat Links Blog, Thoughts

If we take Taleb seriously

To take Nassim Nicholas Taleb seriously one first needs to unsubscribe from his Twitter feed, then un-like him on Facebook and then read his books, especially Antifragile and Black Swan: hisContinue readingIf we take Taleb seriously

Posted on May 29, 2014August 1, 2014
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Reading

My man AC Grayling says, “To read is to fly.” I think that’s wonderful but I also think that to read (if done properly) is to continually run up againstContinue readingReading

Posted on May 26, 2014May 27, 2014 Wait, wasn't that at the bottom?
Cat Links Blog, Thoughts

“It’s been scientifically proven that…”

I heard it again the other day. At a barbeque a friend added weight to a factoid he was giving me by adding the phrase “It’s been scientifically proven that …”. I’ve hadContinue reading“It’s been scientifically proven that…”

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