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In Politics, Religion And Other Areas Of Culture, People Disagree On The Worth Of Competing Ideas. There Is No Equivalent To The Scientific Method That Can Determine In A Robust Way Which Ideas Match The Real World, And Which Ones Can Be Ruled Out. So Conflicting Ideologies Persist Indefinitely.

Cooking Is For Chefs. Science Informs Us And Lets Us Cook While Knowing What We Are Doing, But It Is Not A Replacement For The Skills Of A Chef.

The Whole Hardware Industry Has Experienced The Phenomenon In Which Every Time Computers Get Cheaper, They Appeal To A New Set Of Users; Every Time They Get More Powerful, Old Customers Upgrade.

Words Can Hurt You. In The Larger World, It Frames How People Think About You, And It Can Hurt You In Lots Of Little, Subtle Ways.