Submissions by jeremynixon

Belief as Attire

Professing and Cheering

Religions Claim to Be Nondisprovable

Pretending to Be Wise (2009)

Bayesian Judo

Belief in Belief

A Fable of Science and Politics

Making Beliefs Pay Rent in Anticipated Experiences

The Lens That Sees Its Flaws (2007)

Why Truth And

Feeling Rational

What Do We Mean by Rationality

Reason as memetic immune disorder

Generalizing from One Example

Politics is the Mindkiller

Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently

Musk’s Mission – How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars

Colonization of Venus

A Master’s Degree in Masculinity?

A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2011)

Principles by Ray Dalio [pdf]

Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation

I Find Your Lack of Faith in Autonomous Cars Disturbing

Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

The Anxious Ease of Apple Music

The Tragedy of iTunes and Classical Music

What It’d Be Like If We Obsessed Over Teachers the Way We Do Athletes