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https://t.co/OSI6HD4EF1 Spreading and applying our best ideas. Co-founded by President @ChipkinLogan and Board Members @DKedmey & @astupple.
Joined December 2024
Bold Conjectures, Volume I: Select Interviews of David Deutsch is a compendium of interviews and conversations that David Deutsch has participated in. Interviewers include: @tylercowen, @peterboghossian, @naval, @RobertLawrKuhn, @arjunkhemani, @ToKTeacher, @allisondman,
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You can now preorder the Kindle version of Conjecture Institute's third book! Bold Conjectures, Volume I: Select Interviews of David Deutsch will be live (Kindle and paperback) on January 2nd. All sales revenue goes to supporting Conjecture Institute. Link to preorder below 👇
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This holiday season, the team at Conjecture Institute sends our deepest gratitude to our donors, without whom none of our work would be possible: Founding Donor - @naval Gold Donor - @diegoarey Silver Donors - @BenFerrum, @m2jr, @AllosBio
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Read Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf's paper The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory https://t.co/fKlaGB8bdP
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...in the absence of a good rival explanation, an explanatory theory cannot be refuted by experiment: at most it can be made problematic. ~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf
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Get How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Conjecture Institute Advisor @peterboghossian & @ConceptualJames
https://t.co/584MiWvgLx
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From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert. In our current political climate, it seems...
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There are good and bad ways to change [minds]. Conversation is a good way. Force is a bad way... Conversation is inherently collaborative, and it creates an opportunity for people to reconsider... ~Conjecture Institute Advisor @peterboghossian & @ConceptualJames
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Get Conjecture Institute Fellow @Ray_S_Percival's book The Myth of the Closed Mind: Understanding Why and How People Are Rational https://t.co/8p51gBw8u5
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In a time when many people are cynical about truth and rational argument, Ray Scott Percival topples erroneous presuppositions behind notions such as a "Post-Truth" society. The Myth of the Closed...
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Although no moral position can be derived from factual statements alone, facts may undermine... If one advocates communism and communism...happens to be impossible, then one’s moral injunction is undermined by the facts. ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @Ray_S_Percival
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Read Conjecture Institute Fellow @maria__violaris' DPhil thesis Counterfactuals in Macroscopic Quantum Physics: Irreversibility, Measurement and Locality https://t.co/rgbsW4wuzZ
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Constructor-based irreversibility comes from the possibility to perform a transformation arbitrarily well in a cycle, which does not imply that the reverse transformation can be performed arbitrarily well in a cycle... ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @maria__violaris
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List of all Conjecture Institute Cofounders, Advisors, Ambassadors, and Fellows who are on X: https://t.co/angW5hNawf X handles: @astupple @DKedmey @ChipkinLogan @Sam_kuyp @PaulRRobichaud @sutherlandphys @maria__violaris @DavidDeutschOxf @DanielJHannan @yudapearl (cont'd below)
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Get Conjecture Institute's first book, The Sovereign Child (by Cofounder @astupple w/ President @ChipkinLogan) https://t.co/QJs53rMW9O
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Discover a transformative approach to parenting that liberates both children and parents. Learn how to raise children without rules while fostering their autonomy and creativity.
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A third fallacy is the idea that supposedly virtual experiences are less valuable than real-life experiences. By that logic, books should be restricted as well! In fact, so should all storytelling... ~Conjecture Institute Cofounder @astupple w/ President @ChipkinLogan
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Read Conjecture Institute Fellow @dela3499's post Compression is creative https://t.co/7L6IAsall9
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Compression is creative ...when we “compress” the complexities of the world, we aren’t just throwing out large parts of it because it’s too much to handle. We are introducing new, powerful ideas it never contained. ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @dela3499
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Read Conjecture Institute Advisor @DanielJHannan's book Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World https://t.co/19YJrlwaPE
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Common law vs. Roman law The Continental legal model is deductive. A law is written own from first principles, and then those principles are applied to a particular case. Common law...does the reverse. It builds up, case by case... ~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DanielJHannan
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Listen to the entire conversation between Conjecture Institute Fellow Eric Denton w/ Ambassador @ToKTeacher YouTube https://t.co/Npsvk9eK67 Podcast
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Karl Popper dispels the idea that people of different worldviews can't engage in productive dialogue. Even if disagreement remains, people may have learned something from the conversation. ~Conjecture Institute Fellow Eric Denton w/ Ambassador @ToKTeacher
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