Philosophy

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

Whether I considered a large university or a small college, a famous institution or an obscure one, I found that the same fraction Ï of the professors are stupid.

  | May 21, 2011

Brendan Nyhan - Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Universit

  | Apr 19, 2011

Ishmael (novel) - Wikipedia

  | Dec 20, 2010

Technological singularity - Wikipedia

...the short-term emergence of a self-improving artificial intelligence or superintelligence[1] that is so much beyond humans' present capabilities that it becomes impossible to understand it with present conceptions.

  | Dec 22, 2009

Erich Fromm - Wikipedia

Really interesting philosopher who talks about three escape mechanisms people use to give up their freedom: conforming to society, submitting to authority, and destructiveness.

  | Jun 1, 2009

Ontology - Wikipedia

Ontology studies being or existence and their basic categories and relationships, to determine what entities and what types of entities exist. Ontology thus has strong implications for conceptions of reality.

  | Jun 1, 2008

The Thought of a Thought - Edgar Allan Poe

Great discussion of Poe's "Eureka".

"Only when Hubble observed the dynamic expansion of the Universe did Einstein finally discard that prejudice and recognize the necessity of Poe's premise of a dynamic Universe with a finite past..."

  | Aug 18, 2007

Rudyard Kipling's "IF"

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

  | Jul 30, 2007

Misanthropy - Wikipedia

Interesting. Mentions Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Sherlock Holmes, and George Carlin.

  | Apr 26, 2007

Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia

  | Mar 12, 2007

anti-state.com Newbie/Antagonist Board

Interesting intellectual discussions about various forms of government.

  | Dec 11, 2006

Friedrich Nietzsche - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  | May 10, 2006

Nihilism - Wikipedia

  | May 10, 2006

  | Dec 31, 1969

  | Dec 31, 1969