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Is There Only One Right Way to Know Things?
Experiments say a remedy doesn't work; a naturopath says it heals. Should pharmacies sell it? Behind that sits an old question: is there one legitimate way of knowing, or many?...
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What Does a Repo Need Before You Hand It to an AI Agent?
AI coding agents write more code in an afternoon than you can read in a week, so "I read it and it looked fine" stops working. This is a practical...
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The Benevolent Demon: Why Seeing Should Not be Believing
"Seeing is believing" is one of the most trusted slogans we have - and, I will argue, one of the most dangerous. Drawing on reliabilism and statistical error theory, this...
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The Star-Rating Dilemma: When More Stars Collide with Fewer Votes
4.5 stars from 10 reviews, or 4.0 stars from 100 - which do you trust? A tiny math model that unifies rating quality and vote count into a single confidence-weighted...
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The 5-Minute Surrender Fallacy: Why Early MOBA Leads Are Not Destiny
Mathematical proof that "snowballing" is temporary. A study of logistic gold utility vs. squared fighting power - why early deficits in MOBAs don't determine the outcome, and why surrendering at...
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The Walking Speed of Death: How Fast Does the Grim Reaper Actually Move?
A real BMJ study measured the Grim Reaper's walking speed - and the number is specific enough to put on a crosswalk timer. What the data actually show about gait...