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Politician's syllogism
Also known as the politician's logic is a logical fallacy of the form:
- We must do something.
- This is something.
- Therefore, we must do this.
The argument useless an undefined middle section, thus allowing a politician to focus strictly on the gravity of the problem.
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A Network State
Is a new kind of online community that crowdfunds land around the world, networks it together, and eventually attains diplomatic recognition.
- The community element is key, because the citizens need strong alignment. A social network like Facebook is can not be a state ...
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The pseudonym economy
In an online community you can be:
- anonymous (like on 4chan where there is no relationship to a person)
- use a pseudonym (like a Reddit username that collects karma)
- use your real name aka the state name
Cryp...
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Cave & Commons in Online Communities
A community can needs a cave (a private space for users to interact) & a commons are (for community interaction).
- Twitter is common with some caves in the private messages
- Facebook is semi-private, meaning is public
- Reddit has lots of commons with different rules, the ...
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Governments are resistant to innovation
Starting new states is a core issue of our current status-quo. Starting new "digital nations" should be similar to starting a community.
America used to thrive on the competition between states. The same spirit can be replicated in the digital realm because we tech like cr...
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Unanswered Scientific Questions
Science has not answered fundamental questions:
- How did life appear? Is there a formula for bio-genesis?
- What is consciousness? What makes you... you?
- What is the definition of life? Why are viruses more alive than rocks? Is suffering where we draw the line?
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The Prime Number Maze
William Paulsen introduces a fascinating maze based solely on the distribution of the prime numbers. Balaji extrapolates this to all of human knowledge.
We live in a materialistic universe and we expand our knowledge just as we advance our exploration of t...
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Begging The Question
This logical fallacy occurs when one’s own assumptions are used to establish their argument and prove it to be true.
Also called circular reasoning, this fallacy leads the person to follow the logic because a certain logic (which may be subjective or even entirely false) i...
3. Indifference to Indifferent Things
This exercise is the one that relies on our capacity for rationality, and is aligned with the Stoic topos of logic. Hadot describes logic as “the mastery of inner discourse.” By keeping a close watch on that inner discourse, we can see whether our logic is erroneous and thus conducive to...
Avoid premature optimization
When facing a problem we tend to generalize so we can approach the problem at a systemic level. We do this when building products but also in how we conduct our lives. However, it's mostly premature:
- Abstraction is a form of optimization and should not be done before t...
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