Quotes About Reality

La persona a quien se atribuye la difusión de esta idea del semiescepticismo tendencioso es sir Doktor Professor Karl Raimund Popper, posiblemente el único filósofo de la ciencia a quien leen y de quien hablan los actores del mundo real (aunque es posible que los filósofos profesionales no lo hagan con tanto entusiasmo).

Out of sight, out of mind: we harbor a natural, even physical, scorn of the abstract.

Let us remember that economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality.

Nero, seu otário. Não se deixe iludir pelo dinheiro. São apenas números. Ser dono do próprio nariz é um estado de espírito".

Have you ever wondered why so many of these straight-A students end up going nowhere in life while someone who lagged behind is now getting the shekels, buying the diamonds

that is often associated with classroom knowledge that may get in the way of understanding what's going on in real life.

Notice that close to two centuries ago people had an idealized opinion of their own past, just as we have an idealized opinion of today's past.

one is more likely to be drinking poison in a golden cup than an ordinary one.

Randomness, in the end, is just unknowledge. The world is opaque and appearances fool us.

Indeed, people tend to fool themselves with their self-narrative of "national identity," which, in a breakthrough paper in Science by sixty-five authors, was shown to be a total fiction. ("National traits" might be great for movies, they might help a lot with war, but they are Platonic notions that carry no empirical validity—yet, for example, both the English and the non-English erroneously believe in an English "national temperament.")

What matters, in the end, is what they pay for goods, not what they say they "think" about them, or the various possible reasons they give you or themselves for that.

Most people in the real world don't obsess over it.

We respect what has happened, ignoring what could have happened.

Platonicity is what makes us think that we understand more than we actually do.

Universal behavior is great on paper, disastrous in practice.

BaÅŸar? olsun ya da olmas?n aya??n?z yere bast???nda, insanlar?n düÅŸünceleri kar??s?nda kendinizi daha kay?ts?z ve dayan?kl?, daha özgür, daha gerçek hissedersiniz.

The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind-set enters in contact with messy reality, where the gap between what you know and what you think you know becomes dangerously wide. It is here that the Black Swan is produced.

We are built to be dupes for theories. But theories come and go; experience stays. Explanations

Recall that the Platonic fold is where our representation of reality ceases to apply—but we do not know it.

So we are living in a more and more fragile world, while thinking it is more and more understandable.

He provides the example of a philosopher who puzzles about the reality of time, but who nonetheless applies for a research grant to work on the philosophical problem of time during next year's sabbatical—without doubting the reality of next year's arrival.

Which of these two statements seems more likely? Joey seemed happily married. He killed his wife. Joey seemed happily married. He killed his wife to get her inheritance.

first central assumption leading to the Gaussian bell curve fails in reality. In games, of course, past winnings are not supposed to translate into an increased probability of future gains—but not so in real life, which is why I worry about teaching probability from games. But when winning leads to more winning, you are far more likely to see forty wins in a row than with a proto-Gaussian.

reality doesn't care about winning arguments: survival is what matters.