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Approximations
On Uncertainty and Progress in Science and Being Human
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David Boghossian
Sep 1, 2020
What the Hell is Water? It’s about Privilege
David Foster Wallace’s famous 2005 address was about…
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David Boghossian
Jan 20, 2022
Pandemic as a Portal to the Future: Four Deep Lessons from COVID that Go Beyond “We Screwed it Up”
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David Boghossian
Feb 23, 2021
Bending the Arc of History: MLK, Human Choices and The Dilemma of Progress
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Devolving Power: The Challenge of Our Age
Devolving Power: The Challenge of Our Age
George Washington, Selfish Genes, and Giving up Privilege
David Boghossian
Jan 3
Thinking about Utopia Means Deciding What You Think is Important
Thinking about Utopia Means Deciding What You Think is Important
Ok. That’s kind of obvious. Really, if you are trying to describe the perfect world, it certainly should include some theory about humanity…
David Boghossian
Dec 20, 2021
Only Mrs. Brown Can Save Us: Musk, Bezos, and the Failures of the Techno-Utopians
Only Mrs. Brown Can Save Us: Musk, Bezos, and the Failures of the Techno-Utopians
I used to believe, like Matt Damon in The Martian, that we could “science the shit” out of our problems. I was a “Techno-Utopian,” I now…
David Boghossian
Nov 4, 2021
“Build, Test, Learn” — What Hegel Knew about Lean Start-ups and Making a Dent in the Universe
“Build, Test, Learn” — What Hegel Knew about Lean Start-ups and Making a Dent in the Universe
George Frederic Hegel was not known for his start-up chops. A great thinker? Sure. Extremely handsome? Possibly. Entrepreneur? Not so much.
David Boghossian
Jun 27, 2021
Certainty is the Enemy of Truth: David Deutsch’s Infinite Explanations, the Limits of Knowledge…
Certainty is the Enemy of Truth: David Deutsch’s Infinite Explanations, the Limits of Knowledge…
David Deutsch is an Oxford physicist and philosopher, widely regarded as a founder of quantum computing. His books, The Fabric of Reality…
David Boghossian
May 6, 2021
“Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” — Disney, Darwin, and the Mis-Measure of Progress
“Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” — Disney, Darwin, and the Mis-Measure of Progress
When I was eight, my family went to the NY World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, Queens. It was 1964 and the idealized vision of the future…
David Boghossian
Apr 13, 2021
David Boghossian
Apr 2, 2021
Messages from the Future: Adventures in “Drop in Audio”
I’m not sure how many of you caught the…
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David Boghossian
Nov 13, 2020
The Truth, American Democracy, and the Parable of the Turkey
A Fable in which We are the Turkey
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David Boghossian
Sep 29, 2020
Biology as Information Processing
We can thank DNA for our deep urge to make sense of the world and…
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David Boghossian
Sep 15, 2020
Innovating our way through E.O. Wilson’s “Bottleneck”
Can humans “science” our way out of climate…
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David Boghossian
Sep 9, 2020
Wrong but Useful: How all knowledge is approximate
“All models are wrong, some are useful.” The…
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David Boghossian
Aug 25, 2020
See-Level
A theory of brain function and the value of telling the truth
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David Boghossian
Jul 25, 2018
Wrong but Useful
How all knowledge is approximate
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