El Banco Central en una constitución post-capitalista — Introducción Una crisis múltiple aqueja al mundo moderno: injusticia social creciente, catástrofe ecológica inminente y disfuncionalidad de la democracia representativa. El fenómeno transversal a esta crisis sistémica es el capitalismo. Se concibe frecuentemente al capitalismo como un fenómeno emergente, inherente a cualquier sociedad que provea ciertas garantías mínimas de no intromisión…

We’ve come to strongly suspect that there’s a structural, circular causation between cognition and existence. In other words, one can only speak of cognitive beings, and that would actually be somehow redundant: only beings can have cognition; and, among all the worldly self-sustaining structures, only those that have cognition are…

El pueblo de Chile necesita en este momento de mucho diálogo, inteligencia y creatividad para enfrentar exitosamente el desafío de diseñar una nueva constitución, que debe ser capaz de producir las condiciones necesarias para enfrentar una crisis sistémica de proporciones. …

Yo creo que los hombres somos inferiores a las mujeres.¹ Creo que biológicamente evolucionamos para estar al servicio de ellas que, a su vez, están hechas para guiar la tribu. Nosotros somos como máquinas, optimizadas para perseguir objetivos unívocos; vacías y por lo tanto dispuestas a lo que sea, insensibles…

I’ve been recently involved in drafting a proposal for a project tender regarding the use of AI in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Incoming data will consist of ultrasound images. Now, medical equipment is not an expertise of mine, so in the process I learnt a couple of things about…

From divergences in log-likelihood calculations to the heart of renormalization theory — A few days ago I elaborated here on how points, due to their infinite precision nature, are no good as foundations for understanding space. As with all idealizations, they can be useful or not, depending on the situation. Here I’d like to present a simple, practical situation I recently run…

It is humbling to see how, after the demise of Pythagorean cosmology spelled by irrational numbers, we laboriously managed to prop up what was left via the infinitesimal calculus and Newtonian cosmology… Only to see it fall again for reasons that don’t seem too different: our notion of space as…