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It calms you down but drains you of energy

From Andrew Mills, who related it to the Stoic concept of negative visualization.

Quantum Gravity Expert Says “Philosophical Superficiality” Has Harmed Physics

I was young in the sixties and seventies, and shared the dream of my generation: changing the world and make it more just and gentle. We lost. I did not know what to do next. I found physics, where, instead, revolutions succeed.

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From Bayes: How one equation changed the way I think

Bayes' Rule is a simple formula that tells you how to weigh evidence and change your beliefs. I don't go around plugging numbers into a formula all the time, but nevertheless, becoming familiar with Bayes has shifted the way I think in some important ways.

Mathematical Platonism and its Opposites

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Wikipedia, if it were run by academic experts, would look like this

About the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
- John Archibald Wheeler

Found at This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 287)