People have been misappropriating and misinterpreting Occam's razor for a long time. And the version of Occam's razor most often cited is problematic as it stands alone. In this essay, Kai Krause puts the razor and what he calls Einstein's Blade in very nice tension and synthesis.
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"I write to find out what I think." Joan Didion. "Qu'est ce que je sais"-What do you know? "a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog know one big thing" Archilochus I studied most of my life for credentials, now I study as a Polymath. This blog is my personal ruminations. I invite you along to explore many things. I won't promise that it will all be interesting, but I promise that the thoughts are honest. I realized, relatively late, that life is for the living. So, it was time to live.
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