Pavel ChvykovFeb 711 minBS3Quantum Darwinism, social constructs, and the scientific methodTL;DR: All three of these are centered around the idea of consensus reality – that reproducibility, or redundancy of consistent records,...
Pavel ChvykovJan 224 minBS3Values DarwinismTL;DR / summary: Can we objectively define "progress"? A Darwinian definition seems plausible. But when referring to cultures,...
Pavel ChvykovJan 9, 20234 minBS3Against the Paradox of Tolerance[The ideas here followed from some great discussion with Jerome Warren in Brussels 2022] Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance argues that...
Pavel ChvykovJun 28, 202218 minRattlingA physicist's approach to Origins of LifeI spent the 6 years in my Ph.D. thinking of the broad topic of origins of life, or “abiogenesis”: how does non-living matter turn into...