When reality defies delusionIn a former existence I was training in general practice in the midlands of Ireland, where my psychiatric attachment included home visits with the community psychiatric nurse, Liam. Liam had worked in the area for nearly 40 years. On the day in question our ...
In Chapter 3, we will use the knowledge gleaned from the previous two chapters to create our “structure of scientific delusion.” In Chapters 4-7, we will use our “structure” to examine four ongoing cases of scientific delusion that may or may not be resolved in the lifetime of the ...
AI becoming self-aware has long been a theme of science fiction. As fields like machine learning have advanced, it’s become more of a possible reality than ever. After all, today’s AI is capable of learning from experience in much the same way as humans. This is in stark contrast to...
" he asked sarcastically. Solutionism misreads human reality, proposes ways to solve problems based on that misinterpretation, and then proclaims the problems "solved." This attitude enables human beings to be focused on neatly defined short-term objectives that appear to be e...
Also, if one is not a total truth-fanatic, one might argue that happy self-delusion can be better overall for a good life than living unhappily with the truth.Footnote 9 Also, as I pointed out earlier, there is a second possibility for avoiding the description of the relationship as ...
We may answer this question at once by saying that the very fact that they are created beings causes them to be subject to error and delusion. (Saadiah1946/2002, 31) That is, error and doubt are a natural evil that comes with being a human and one must learn to live with it. Indeed...
Both valuations and market internals continue to be essential elements of our investment discipline. In contrast, my error in this bubble was that I attended too strongly to historically reliable “limits” to speculation. Those limits became wholly ineffective amid the Fed-induced delusion that zero...
Veterans of purposeful work understand this better than anyone. But because they embrace it, they have a deeper connection to the reality of their passion. “I believe there are like three days every year that pay for the whole year,”saidthe screenwriter Tony Gilroy, who’s worked on movies...
They are a delusion. Why are they deluded? Because they think that their lives are not a breath. They think they are Invulnerable Man or Woman. I’ve had the chance to travel to a number of places in the developing world, and here is what I have noticed. People living in pove...
Clearly, governments do not want the problem of falling wages (or rather, falling goods that wages can buy) impacting their countries. So the new game becomes, “Push the problem elsewhere.” In economic language, the world economy is becoming a “Zero-sum” game. Any gain in the productio...