Analytic/synthetic skeptic @ansynth_skeptic

PhD candidate, statistics/ML, measuring human cognition. Still waiting for MCMC to converge. Focused on sciencing for now. Joined September 2021

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Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil) @skydivephil

a year ago

Muslim evolution critic Subboor Ahmad often quotes the philosopher of biology, Elliott Sober, to support his case. So I thought it would be fun to get Sober himself to review Subboor's bad arguments, and Sober does n to hold back youtube.com/watch?v=83oX2Q…

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Analytic/synthetic skeptic @ansynth_skeptic

2 years ago

The claims that 1) Our best explanations of concrete facts are relational, 2) Intrinsic properties cannot be relationally explained, and 3) Phenomenal properties are intrinsic. Justify the rejection of pt. 3 at least as much as they create a hard problem of consciousness.

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Analytic/synthetic skeptic @ansynth_skeptic

2 years ago

Arguments from design in a nutshell: "The method of ‘postulating’ what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil." Bertrand Russell

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager

2 years ago

It turns out that if you want to do Bayesian updating then you have to do the Bayesian updating

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath

2 years ago

It turns out that if you want to do Bayesian updating then you have to do the Bayesian updating

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Analytic/synthetic skeptic @ansynth_skeptic

2 years ago

🔥 new hiddenness argument: If human intelligence (INT) was divinely created, then INT would lead humans to recognize its Creator. (If A then B) For some, their INT led to disbelief in a Creator (see Oppy, Sobel, Mackie). (Not B) Thus, human INT was not divinely created.

Kenneth R. Samples @RTB_KSamples

2 years ago

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Analytic/synthetic skeptic @ansynth_skeptic

2 years ago

If we cannot appeal to common sense, then why think that physical objects have a true intrinsic nature? Maybe it's all relational, or 'turtles all the way down'. In other words, what explanatory gains do we get from positing an intrinsic nature?