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Understanding Value

Some items are valuable and some are not. For example, an antique dresser used by Churchill is valuable. An old dresser lying on some street corner is not valuable, even if it happens to be the very same dresser.
There lies the fundamental misunderstanding of value by many people - that value is intrinsic to [...]

We need more philosophy without facts

Modern intellectualism is flawed in a fundamental manner - there is too much dependence on ‘facts’ and pre-existing opinions, and too little tolerance for ideas that have not been previously researched.
And the really terrible part is that these ‘facts’ usually are not. If a researcher publishes some soft research in some area - for example, [...]

A solution for the “send email to relatives when I die” problem

We all have a bunch of data online, and I know I have asked myself a few times - what would happen to all that when I die? Some information, I would like to be sent to my family, for example, my Bank Account details. There are a bunch of services that do this death [...]