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The necessity (and complexity) of fixed points in measurement
Hasok Chang's "Inventing Temperature" offers an instructive example of epistemic iteration in practice.
Feb 11
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Sean Trott
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Healthy minds and sick souls
William James on two kinds of religious temperament.
Jan 31
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Sean Trott
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Calibrating expectations
The "habitability problem" never really went away.
Jan 17
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Sean Trott
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Evaluating empirical claims: practical advice
A conceptual framework for identifying the type and validity of empirical claims.
Dec 30, 2025
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Sean Trott
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Who's afraid of the null hypothesis?
A useful experiment should have an interesting null hypothesis.
Dec 22, 2025
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Sean Trott
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Is ChatGPT "grown, not made"?
What we do and don't know about large language models.
Nov 24, 2025
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Sean Trott
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On what to work on
Short-term decisions, long-term planning, and developing a sense of taste.
Nov 18, 2025
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Sean Trott
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The epistemology of lower-back pain (pt. 2)
Bad backs, healthy minds, and the art of not paying attention.
Oct 26, 2025
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Sean Trott
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