A couple of Scott Alexander's latest posts (and some of his earlier ones) relate to the balance between how much you rely on incoming sensory information versus priors, or bottom-up versus top-down processing. (This is not as simplistic as saying "some people won't change their pre-existing beliefs even when confronted with contradictory evidence ( Read more... )

One for the linguists and/or Christians.

Alex mentioned that God is three persons, and Bethany said "You mean three people." So... why don't we say that the Trinity is "three people ( Read more... )

I've made two posts now on fallacies I commit, so I think now I'm allowed to make one on a fallacy I don't commit and have observed in others ( Read more... )