Month: June 2021
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Why Politics isn’t for the Honest
This is not a pessimistic post. I’ll explain why honest people can’t do well in politics. And then I’ll also urge honest people to be political. When I say politics isn’t for the honest, I mean that the identity of a politician isn’t for the honest. They cannot win elections on their own. They cannot…
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Don’t Let Them Dehumanize You, Doctors!
The society will try to dehumanize you in various ways. And you will feel pressurized to play along too. Don’t let them do that to you, as much as possible. — Every patient comes to you with the expectation of a complete cure. They do not care that you are human. Reset their expectations. Let…
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Giving up Ideological Purism
I used to be a purist. I would think that socialism is better than capitalism and therefore I should myself shun everything to do about capitalism. I would think that free software is better than proprietary software and use only free software everywhere. And so many other “principled” positions. Then a couple of things happened.…
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Is Science The Only Way of Knowing?
This is continuation of a debate from YouTube. The statement that “Science is the only way of knowing” is correct. But it is also arrogant. The definition of knowledge that we are working with is “justified belief of independent rational observers”. What I argue in the video is that independent rational observers can come to…