Destroyed With Facts and Logic
The popular atheist case against religion was already shallow, and the same habits carried straight over to feminism.
RationalityA collection of 12 posts
Totschlagargument
There is a move in a conversation that doesn’t win the argument but ends it. In American constitutional debate, it has become the default. This is an essay about what that costs — not about guns.
Just Asking Questions: The Fallacy Nobody Commits
The problem is not questions. It is the question with a cause already inside it — a post hoc inference the speaker never performs, so it can never be pinned on them.
A Billion Is Not Just a Big Million
Our intuitions quietly give up somewhere past a few thousand. Here is what a billion actually looks like.
AI is not foolproof either.
Nine years ago, I wrote that search engines look for relevance, not truth. The box answers you directly now, and the problem didn’t go away — it got quieter.
The Line We Can’t Draw: The Orphan and the Pig
We already refuse to farm our most vulnerable. Consistency asks us to mean it.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence … Or is it?
You have probably encountered this slogan in an online debate, usually deployed with the air of someone…