
It is not a law.
It never was a law.
An observation is all that it ever was, or a prediction, but not a law.
And surprise, it does not hold anymore.
The prophecy was false, after all.
It is not a law.
It never was a law.
An observation is all that it ever was, or a prediction, but not a law.
And surprise, it does not hold anymore.
The prophecy was false, after all.
Biological anthropologists generally agree that humans evolved reasoning to
facilitate hunting together as a group; however, there are many other species
that hunt in packs, and yet reasoning is unique to humans. Therefore, in order
to explain reasoning, it is not enough to consider how it was beneficial to
us; we also need to consider what enabled reasoning to emerge specifically in
humans as opposed to any other species.
I have a hypothesis which attempts to explain how this happened.
While working on code in the context of a certain task, a programmer often discovers some preexisting quality issue. When this happens, there is a choice to be made:
What causes homosexuality? The predominant understanding is that the causes are genetic, but this seems to be in conflict with the notion of natural selection: an individual who does not reproduce is a dead-end for the genes that they carry; therefore, the 'gay gene' should have gone extinct. A number of hypotheses have been proposed, attempting to resolve this paradox, but they are not very convincing. In this post I present a couple of my own hypotheses, which I believe do a better job at resolving the paradox.
It is becoming customary in western societies to ask people in various settings to state their preferred pronouns. It started among younger people of the particularly woke persuasion, and it is spreading everywhere. When I find myself in such a setting, I do of course go along, because doing otherwise would be awkward, but I hope that it is only a fad which will eventually go away. While waiting to see how it pans out, let me describe a few issues I have with it.
This band has been haunting me for the past days. I feel compelled to write about it. This post will be completely different from the kind of posts you normally see on this blog.
While going through some random playlist on YouTube I stumbled upon this band that I immediately took a liking to, which is something that does not happen often. When I tried to find out a bit more information about them, what I discovered wrecked me.