Bruce Long

Dec 3, 2024 | medium.com | Bruce Long

Epistemic updating and the nature of semantic information: a confab…Bruce Long·FollowPublished inNaturalistic·4 min read·--Epistemologists talk a lot about the Platonic or classical conception of knowledge: justified true belief or JTB. There’s a famous paper by Edmund Gettier which many think killed JTB some time ago, but some epistemologists just aren’t having it!(“Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” by Edmund Gettier.

Jun 18, 2024 | harpermacleod.co.uk | Cameron Walker |Bruce Long |Euan Pirie |Lesley Montague

Scotland faces a crucial moment in its journey towards achieving a sustainable future as it acknowledges that 2030 net-zero targets are unlikely to be met, albeit with a commitment to reach the long-term 2045 targets. Within this challenge lies a significant opportunity for transformation. Enter… green hydrogen power. Green hydrogen is a fuel produced through electrolysis, where water is split into hydrogen and oxygen using renewable energy sources such as wind, tidal or solar power.

Apr 10, 2024 | naturalistic.medium.com | Bruce Long

Any information source produces stochastic patterns with ‘codes’David Chalmers thinks we probably would not — perhaps in-principle — be able to determine if we’re in a simulation. Everything in it — even ‘the physical’ — would be simulated. No amount of reductionist physics could get to the bottom of the ontology and find the simulator and its structure. It’s a pretty convincing idea, and I am not about to assert it is definitely wrong. It might be.

Apr 9, 2024 | medium.com | Bruce Long

Or: Where are all the alien AGI-enabled, super-powered, Von Neumann probe swarms? We know that, due to cosmic scales of spacetime, it’s likely there are no other alien civilisations existing now who are accessible to us. There are lots of factors called ‘filters’ explaining why advanced civilisations might not make it and why their existential timelines would not overlap with our own civilisational timeline.

Apr 2, 2024 | naturalistic.medium.com | Bruce Long

It’s not a bad repository for storing one’s writing, but if you’re writing to earn it’s completely useless due to built-in bias, bigotry, bad algorithms, and terrible behaviour by staff who pander to cancelly sociopaths. Medium provides a fairly tidy and usable repository for one’s writing, but:The algorithms are greedy and biased. The staff pander too much to religious nuts who complain about articles and people. The staff pander to any lying, nutjob sociopath who complains about a writer.