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Countless thinkers for the past two thousand years have appealed to Euclidean geometry as an example of rock-solid reasoning. The proofs in Euclid’s Elements are beautiful deductive structures. One proof builds on the next, and by accepting the starting...

It’s been nine months since GPT4 was released. I’m still trying to make sense of things. There’s a dearth of level-headed analysis out there. Most people’s analysis seems to be framed by science fiction novels, or they are still using frameworks inherited...

Self-reference is the foundation of a new mystery religion. Adherents see paradoxes everywhere, even at the foundation of critical thinking—logic itself. “The Liar’s Paradox”, they say, “demonstrates that the law of non-contradiction isn’t absolute....

There’s an ongoing quest to reduce everything to mathematics. It’s part of the reason we’re in a dark age. Seems like a good time to ask the question: is everything quantifiable? Were the Pythagoreans correct in saying that “All is number”? Consider...

As I returned from my morning walk, I saw a bright green note attached to my front door. Odd, I didn’t notice it when I left only 20 minutes prior. Maybe the mailman came early. As I got closer to the door, the note seemed to vibrate then suddenly disappeared...