A Priori and a Posteriori

Program tied to fewer substantiated and unsubstantiated cases of child sexual abuse

By the L' Ouvrier Communiste, this text presents their views on the development of class consciousness among the proletariat and its entwinement with violence. Originally published in "L'Ouvrier Communiste N°12 - Octobre 1930".

MIT physicists propose that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how the early universe evolved.

Joshua Rothman writes about a new line of inquiry that asks people to imagine their children as individuals living independent lives.

New discoveries demystify the bizarre force that binds atomic nuclei together

Physicists from Michigan State University and elsewhere have examined the structure of the low-energy nuclear states of carbon-12 using nuclear lattice effective field theory.

Introduction to Negativity and Revolution, a book that was released in 2008 arguing for a return to the 'negative dialectics' of Theodor Adorno. Negative Dialectics was highly influential on the Open Marxists like John Holloway. "The poststructuralist shift from dialectics to 'difference' has been so popular that it becomes difficult to create meaningful revolutionary responses to neoliberalism. This book argues…

Perhaps the least obvious thing is that the most obvious things are not obvious. Common sense is uncommon. Simple things are hard. Since I discussed this with my friend, Jake, I started writing down obvious things as Ray has written about in Principles [http://www.principles.com/]. I want to share that with you. At this moment, I believe these to be timeless. But I often look back at things I wrote even six…

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a term for Artificial Intelligence systems that meet or exceed human performance on the broad range of tasks that humans are capable of performing. There are…

How hindsight, hierarchy, and confirmation biases break conductivity and accuracy of knowledge

There's an emerging scientific discipline dedicated to the study of science itself.

The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research, such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a simulation technique that offers both high fidelity and scalability across different time and length scales has long been a roadblock for the progress of these technologies.

As regards several critical matters, there is no such thing as a state of innocent misinformation. Those matters pertain to the exploit stakes to be captured in terms of money, power, and the control of what is known. The notion that misinformation is defined as a state of being 'mistaken, with or without intent', ironically itself constitutes all four forms of deception through erroneous informing.

They'd have to be messing with us.

Why builders need to raise, not lower, their epistemic bar

Human extinction and AI denial

Of course America has a two-party system, but we should give up the fiction that all the policies of each party are bound by some underlying essence, such as left-progressivism or right-conservatism.

May 26, 2023 — What is copyright, from first principles? This essay introduces a mathematical model of a world with ideas, then adds a copyright system to that model, and finally analyzes the predicted effects of that system.

Topological superconductors are superconducting materials with unique characteristics, including the appearance of so-called in-gap Majorana states. These bound states can serve as qubits, making topological superconductors particularly promising for the creation of quantum computing technologies.

In the video above, a gorilla named Zola has a blast spinning in circles. It's not uncommon for apes to enjoy whirling around but why do they enjoy it? Turns out, it's the same reason t…