“Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking” – Nietzsche It’s rather funny to read the writings of the enlightenment and, along with those of the communists, specially the Soviet Union on education. The general belief was that anyone could be picked up from […]

So this article was shared in my feed: https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/15/smithsonian-museum-whiteness-objective-thinking/ One of the most odd movements I’ve seen in the US is that to rally against critical thinking and claim logic, objectivity and the scientific method is sexist and racist. One of the arguments I heard during school for example was that the scientific method didn’t […]

One very common logical fallacy I see in the US is the confusion of correlation with causation. Take the book Codes: The Making of a New Tribe and Remaking of the World, in the very first chapter the authors ridiculously fall flat faced on this fallacy. They claim that they have data to prove their […]

“A rival to Prometheus, [Vaucanson] seemed to steal the heavenly fires in his search to give life.” –Voltaire Just got reminded to the Mechanical Duck of Jacques de Vaucanson by hearing the saying “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…” where is probably the origin of that saying. The Mechanical Duck […]

This is a quick connection I just made about fifteen minutes in the podcast episode of Joe Rogan Experience #1399 Pavel Tsatsouline. Pavel explains that the Russians scientists measured the training of several top performers for decades and revealed certain patterns of training (I won’t go in the details) that were found to be much […]

Most people don’t get it. It’s not about the money for the sake of money. That’s some mercantile bullshit some people certainly hold. But the real purpose of the money is that it’s proof of your skill to yourself and the world. Read the Iliad, what are the heroes going on and on about? It’s […]