How we know things

How anyone is supposed to work out what is true when they cannot check most of it themselves. This is the group I am least confident about and most interested in.

Go and look August 24, 2026
Almost everything we argue about has a number in it; almost every number we have is a proxy

The Clockwork Mind June 29, 2025
The strange paradox of free-will

A Market for 'Truth' June 28, 2025
Using Bets to Find a Shared Truth

Every Bias Names an Algorithm March 25, 2025
Bounded reasoners trade accuracy for efficiency in three places, and each trade leaves its own fingerprint

How can you prove anthopogenic global warming? September 25, 2020
An individual cannot.

What makes something true? August 18, 2020
How does deductive truth (ie math) relate to inductive truth (ie science)?

Youth and truth August 15, 2020
I struggled with 'reality'...

Adversarial collaboration contest July 3, 2020
Let's have a tolerant debate

Being open minded November 24, 2018
Let's take turns reading books

Automated science August 22, 2018
Model-based reinforcement learning, symbolic AI, and the limits of efficient learning.

Humble November 6, 2017
A tribute to Carl Sagan and to science.

Right beliefs, wrong reasons July 5, 2015
It occured to me that my belief in evolution was just as illogical as others belief in god.