This week, I have once again been thinking about Astral Codex Ten. Recently, Scott Alexander posted an essay critical of “the purpose of a system is what it does“. We’ll call this POSIWID for short, because I can’t be bothered typing all that. I had several issues with this essay, which I will lump into […]
Help other people to repeat your results by telling them how to use your code
If you can’t be bothered to ask me questions, why should I answer them?
When all you have is a hammer, everything sure does start to look like a nail. This is not a good thing. I’ve spent a lot of my life variously1) Falling in love with physics and physics fundamentalism (the idea that physics is the “building block” of our reality)2) Training to “think like a physicist”3) […]
It’s not enough to have goals for living people. It’s time to think about what those goals are.
This afternoon, my husband and I were talking about how things just seemed better back in 2008 to 2014, or at least less bad. Things made more sense. It seemed like we had positive visions for the future, or something. …and then I realised that we sounded like the 90s kids that I used to […]
As a certified prediction market enjoyer, I’ve been thinking about why people might not like prediction markets, and how we might change that. Here are my (very rough) thoughts.
Life after the PhD and the future of science I haven’t written here in a while. Finishing my PhD took a lot out of me, and since then I’ve been finding my feet and working on a new project – prediction markets for science. (I have a little website at sciencebetting.com, and you should check […]
Happy rather belated New Year! I have now finished my PhD, I am a Dr, and I am slowly emerging back into the real world. Which – right now – is rather a messy place. I’ve increasingly been wondering about heuristics for deciding which sources are and aren’t reliable. This is because I think truth […]
This is free writing while I work out what I want to put in my PhD chapter. Bits of it are probably wrong to varying degrees, but being wrong is most of doing research. Our reward at the end of a research project is to be slightly less wrong. One of the things that made […]
