Bulverism

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Bulverism is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 04, 2022 and October 31, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “this process is pretty much the same thing as Bulverism and bias arguments”; “I usually hate this kind of thing (cf. Bulverism)“. It most often appears alongside ACX, ESP, A Mind Without Craving.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: August 04, 2022
• Last seen: October 31, 2022

Appears In

• Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition
• Highlights From The Comments On Jhanas

Related Pages

• • ACX (2 shared issues)
• • ESP (2 shared issues)
• • A Mind Without Craving (1 shared issues)
• • AI risk (1 shared issues)
• • Alexandros (1 shared issues)
• • Alexandros M (1 shared issues)
• • Andres Emilsson (1 shared issues)
• • Andres Gomez Emilsson (1 shared issues)
• • anāgāmī (1 shared issues)
• • Argentus (1 shared issues)
• • Artist-Tyrant (1 shared issues)
• • Beck Stein (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://beverlypress.com/2024/05/uptick-in-graffiti-paints-a-bleak-picture/
• • https://biblehub.com/greek/3646.htm
• • https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-the-2024-US-presidential-election
• • https://x.com/AppSpartacus

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition

August 04, 2022 · Original source

Examine why a belief has even come to your attention in the first place. If you inexplicably decide to investigate the possibility that a random number between one and a million will come up as 282,058, then you can dismiss it with little thought, because you had no reason to believe it in the first place. The only reason “Neom is possible” deserves scrutiny is because the Saudi government claims that it is; in order to dismiss it as absurd, I need to explain why the Saudi government would waste $500 billion on an obviously absurd idea. This is easy: their king is a megalomaniac, plus people are afraid to voice dissent. I admit this process is pretty much the same thing as Bulverism and bias arguments, which I hate and which always fail. Too bad, there is no royal road. Sometimes there isn’t even a muddy goat path.

Inline links: Bulverism, bias arguments

Highlights From The Comments On Jhanas

October 31, 2022 · Original source

A few people have started speculating on why people are so reluctant to believe jhanas. I usually hate this kind of thing (cf. Bulverism), but it does describe some of my own previous reluctance so I’m going to embarassedly signal-boost it anyway. Andres Gomez Emilsson has a Twitter thread about this, but the one that stood at most to me was:

Inline links: Bulverism, a Twitter thread about this

Backlinks

• Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition
• Concepts: B
• Concepts: E
• Concepts: L
• Concepts: T
• ESP
• Highlights From The Comments On Jhanas
• Organizations: R
• Organizations: S
• People: A
• People: L
• Places: T
• quantum mechanics
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