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What a Proof Used to Prove
The crisis is in credentialing, not in mathematics.
 • David Mc
No One Has Shown We Are Universal Explainers
Open-ended reason leaves room for domains it cannot enter
 • David Mc
Hard to Explain Is Not Free to Vary
The gap in our theories doesn’t license a gap in the world.
 • David Mc
The Attachment Problem
BIP-110 and the limits of protocol purity
 • David Mc
Metaphysics Is Concept Engineering
Truth, coherence, usefulness, and understanding are constraints on one design problem.
 • David Mc
The Consciousness Detector We Don’t Have
Why AI consciousness may outrun our theories
 • David Mc
Faith Is a Frozen Update Rule
Why the opposite of faith is corrigibility, not evidence
 • David Mc
Where Choice Branches
Free will in a branching universe
 • David Mc
The Error-Correction Market
Why technological disruption is not an argument against decentralized value creation
 • David Mc
The Missing Moral Premise
Sean Carroll’s defense of affirmative action skips its own central premise
 • David Mc
The Error-Correction Gap
Why Darwin is not the only alternative to decay
 • David Mc
Who Should Rule Is the Wrong Question
The unexamined premise of political authority
 • David Mc
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