Intriguing post. I don't agree with everything Munger says, nor want to discuss specific points that seem to be of personal nature. But some of his observations about #metasci are on point, such as the distinction btw wanting to persuade colleagues vs imposing how everyone needs to do science. >
Lakens and the Second Reformation
New piece on our deepest motivations: open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
On status vs power as first movers
Prefaces of books I probably will never write. Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn Best phrase: "Two brotherâs wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked." open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
Preface B
Prefaces of books I probably will not write. Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy. Best phrase: âThey clearly never met me with my motherâ. open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
Preface A
đOut now: A new open access publication in Phil. Trans. B with Jacopo Frascaroli and Karl Friston. We examine why we are grasped by art, and we end up exploring the essential tension in living beings between order and change. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Check out the special issue!
Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable? Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Predictive-coding has justifiably become a highly influential theory in Neuroscience. However, the possibility of its unfalsifiability has been raisedâŚ
"Perhaps it is time for funding bodies to rethink their application processes." Interesting commentary on how ChatGPT is entering the grant-application system. #rethinkfundingwww.nature.com/articles/d41...
The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. Itâs time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding. The fact that artificial intelli...
As Karl Weick explained, âhow do I know what I think, until I see what I say?â And in writing, this is where weâre finally forced to make hard decisions about structure and to articulate concrete relationships between ideas. We may lose that when AI fills in those thoughts for us.