Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

For most of our history we were losing terribly against the microbes. Only recently did we turn the battle in our favour. Vaccines were a major breakthrough, as the data shows. Now in the fight against the coronavirus too, our biggest hope is to find a…

I know just what you should talk about. Race and IQ. Work it into just about every video no matter how offtopic.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Standards? LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Just a friendly reminder that hate speech like the preceding comment pretty much violates PoT’s community standards. LikeLike

Exaggeration alert: whenever someone likes one of my posts on here, WordPress sends me a notification that the liker thought my post was “pretty awesome.” Seems like a principal-agent problem here. LikeLike

Writing in the New York Times this past Thursday, Anthony Tomassini called for ending blind auditions for orchestras, because the orchestras are not coming out diverse enough. What strikes me as odd about this is that the whole reason for blind auditions is to encourage diversity, by eliminating unconscious bias. The argument would go something…