Erik's Blog
I write about the following topics:
1. Mainstream epistemic delusions
The mainstream population is heavily afflicted with epistemic delusions. They are borderline epistemically insane. However, there is one ray of hope, because there is one important set of widespread knowledge beliefs that the mainstream population seems to understand surprisingly correctly.
2. The mathematics conundrum
Lacking a better term, I have baptized the following collection of math theorems "the mathematics conundrum":
- Carnap's diagonal lemma
- Gödel's first incompleteness theorem
- Gödel's second incompleteness theorem
- Tarski's undefinability of the truth
- Turing's halting problem
- Rice theorem
It is a framework of provable impossibilities that bedevil the world of mathematics and the wider world of knowledge. The consequences of the combination of these theorems actively seek to sabotage us. I love reading and writing about it. It is always a pleasant exercise in disaster-zone tourism.
3. Bitcoin security
Most of the Bitcoin community has got it wrong on security. What they generally believe about security is largely incorrect. They are delusional. By the way, that is going to cost quite a few users quite a bit of money. In this blog section I intend to savagely debunk some of the most infuriating myths that people believe about bitcoin security.
4. Software engineering
In my utmost humble opinion, there is so much wrong about what mainstream programmers believe, that I cannot shut my mouth about it.
5. Religious Jurisprudence is the admiralship of Islam
As a recent convert/revert, I initially thought that Islam is not particularly different from other religions, until I realized that other religions may not capable of generating a similarly large body of objective and almost mechanically-verifiable jurisprudence ("al-fiqh"). That cannot just be the consequence of having a sound epistemology ("usul") because on the wrong scriptures it would not work. Therefore, it must be feature of the scriptures themselves that effectively allow for a sound epistemology in its jurisprudence as an emergent property.
6. Islam and MGTOW/RedPill
In my opinion, 99% of what MGTOW/RedPill say, is what Islam has been saying for 1400 years already.