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Epistemology
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What Bayesianism Taught Me
A LessWrong post on what Bayesian reasoning changed about the author's thinking — not the mechanics of Bayes' theorem but the epistemic habits it instills. Treating beliefs as probability distributions rather than binary true/false is the core insight.
Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information
Oscillatory Thoughts blog post on the paradox of automated science and deep data — arguing that as data volumes grow and pattern detection automates, we risk producing empirical findings we can't explain or falsify. A philosophical challenge to data-driven science.
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger's anthology coining 'agnotology' — the study of how ignorance is deliberately manufactured. The tobacco industry's decades-long campaign to cast doubt on smoking-cancer links is the paradigm case: ignorance isn't a natural state but something that can be produced, maintained, and deployed as a political tool.