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17:49, 13 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Hoffer true believer quote (Created page with "All mass movements deprecate the present by depicting it as a mean preliminary to a glorious future: a doormat on the threshold of the millennium. :— Eric Hoffer, ''The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements'', 1951.")
17:46, 13 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:EA as Calvinism (Created page with "In the original Christian utopian state, paradise was indefinitely ''postponed'' to a point beyond an impassible threshold. No one this side of it could see paradise; no one beyond the threshold could report back about it. It was like the event horizon of a black hole. This meant those striving for, but not yet ''at'' a utopian state must carry on in blind faith that it will be there, and in knowledge that their pre-threshold life must be o...")
16:55, 13 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Wp (Created page with "{{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}}}")
16:10, 13 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Externalities (Redirected page to Externality) Tag: New redirect
16:09, 13 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Stakeholders (Redirected page to Stakeholder capitalism) Tag: New redirect
16:48, 12 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Deep Utopia to Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
16:48, 12 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Nick Bostrom (Created page with "An Oxford tenured philsopher of scandinavian ancestry—for whatever that is worth—who has brought to the world both the simulation hypothesis and the book {{br|Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World}} and is therefore responsible for two of the stupider and more dangerously reductive ideas to have graced the intellectural life of the planet. He joins academics like William MacAskill and Brian Klaas, therefore as members of the “must get out mor...")
16:44, 12 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Deep Utopia (Created page with "{{a|book review|}}{{drop|I|am no}} great fan of the “simulation hypothesis” the sophomore thought experiment by which Nick Bostrom became world famous, and from which, I fancy, he has built his subsequent career as a public intellectual. Nor have I got much time for utopian ideas. The very notion seems to me to come at the problem of existence from precisely the wrong point, backwards, reverses over all that is nice about it and then steers off into...")
09:18, 12 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Hedgie (Redirected page to Hedge fund manager) Tag: New redirect
09:17, 12 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Performance guaranty (Redirected page to Performance guarantee) Tag: New redirect
08:32, 12 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Boilerplate Performance guarantee (Created page with "'''Performance guarantee''': Provider guarantees Customer’s satisfaction with its Services. Should Customer or any of its Relevant Personnel be dissatisfied with Provider’s Services, and if Customer reasonably believes such dissatisfaction is justified, Customer shall notify Provider. Provider shall either: {{L3}} Take steps to resolve Customer’s dissatisfaction; or<li> Co-operate with the Relevant Personnel to extend appropriate additional Services to the indi...")
08:27, 12 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Performance guarantee (Created page with "{{boileranat|Performance guarantee}}")
18:08, 10 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Gartner hype cycle (Redirected page to Gartner peak inflated expectations curve) Tag: New redirect
17:37, 10 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:DK whoopsie.jpg
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17:37, 10 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page File:DK Shocker.png (content was: "", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
14:46, 10 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:DK overuse.jpg
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14:30, 10 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:DK Shocker.png
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14:40, 6 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Means of production (Created page with "{{a|devil|}}{{drop|T|he world seems}} in a right old pickle. Earnest hopes that the liberal cosmopolitan order had fully and finally prevailed, that forces of darkness and illiberalism had been vanquished, and that all that remained was for Deep Thought to complete the necessary calculations and the planet would bask in a warm saline solution")
17:11, 1 March 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Steven Pinker (Redirected page to The Language Instinct) Tags: New redirect Visual edit: Switched
14:40, 28 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Pquote (Created page with "{{pullquote|{{subst:small|500}}“</div>|{{{1}}}}}")
12:05, 28 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Murray Rothbard (Redirected page to Fractional reserve banking) Tag: New redirect
12:00, 28 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Full reserve banking (Redirected page to Full reserve banking) Tag: New redirect
11:59, 28 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Fractional reserve banking system to Fractional reserve banking
11:59, 28 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Transfer of title (Redirected page to Title transfer) Tag: New redirect
08:35, 28 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Wp3 (Created page with "{{subst:Wp2}}")
08:35, 28 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Wp1 (Created page with "{{subst:Wp2}}")
08:34, 28 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Wp2 (Created page with "{{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{{1}}}_{{{2}}}|{{{1}}} {{{2}}}}}")
13:22, 27 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Reductio ad absurdum (Created page with "{{a|troll|}}{{d|Reductio ad absurdum|/rɪˈdʌktiːəʊ æd əbˈsɜːdˈəm/ |Latin'') (''n|}}{{drop|A|logical reasoning}} technique that ripostes an opponent’s claim by extrapolating to show that if it were true, at the limit, it would lead to extreme or unwanted outcomes. This is to reduce the argument to absurdity. It does depend on your opponent — or at least, the audience — sharing your view of what is absurd. A reductio argument also may sit at the top...")
13:02, 27 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Information theory (Redirected page to Shannon entropy) Tag: New redirect
13:02, 27 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Robomorphise (Redirected page to Robomorphism) Tag: New redirect
13:15, 26 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Backfire effect (Created page with "{{a|troll|{{wmc|Rear of a vintage car (Unsplash).jpg|}}}}{{drop|T|he “backfire effect”}} gets its name from the counterintuitive way agitants often respond to being contradicted. Rather than mending their misconceptions, being put indubitably right with sound argument and evidence can induce an opponent to double down: To strengthen their original position: the rebuttal therefore “backfires”. Why is it that trying to change someone’s mind with facts produces...")
08:59, 26 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters to Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
08:30, 26 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (Created page with "{{a|review|}}JC has been grappling for some time with what is so troubling about the modern techno synthesis and the struggled to put his finger on it but Brian class is new book {{br|Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters}} sets it all up nicely")
22:31, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Strawman (Created page with "{{a|troll|}}Most effectively reached through generalisation, the Strawman complements the no true Scotsman as a way of holing any opponent’s argument by reference to a weak of fanciful argument that is readily imputed to the other sidew but which the other side did not make. This is especially popular where either side has a provocateur or polemicist loudly advocating for their side. The Lucy Letby debate — long may iot rage — has any number of totemic stra...")
22:23, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page No true Scotsman (Created page with "{{A|troll|}}The "no true Scotsman" fallacy is committed when the arguer satisfies the following conditions: {{L1}} Asserting something then refusing to resile from it despite a clear counterexample.<li> Modifying the assertion to exclude by definition that unwanted counterexample.<li></ol> {{sa}} {{gb|Trollery}}")
22:00, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Ad hominem (Created page with "{{a|troll|}}{{drop|T|hough it is}} one of the traditional trolls, and among classicists has its cachet, these days the plain old studs-up legbreaking ad hominem is a bit easy to spot and pick off.")
15:02, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Background IP (Redirected page to Intellectual property) Tag: New redirect
15:02, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Foreground IP (Redirected page to Intellectual property) Tag: New redirect
14:54, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Intellectual property background (Created page with "{{c|Intellectual property}}")
14:48, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Linklist (Created page with "{{subst:sag}}")
14:48, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa ip intellectual property (Created page with "{{linklist|Copyright|Patent|Confidentiality}}")
14:43, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Ip - Essay (Created page with "Intellectual property background")
14:42, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium summary ip intellectual property (Created page with "{{pjchotlink|On the difference between copyright and confidence}}<li>{{pjchotlink|Remedies for breach}}<li>{{pjchotlink|Foreground and background IP}}<li>{{pjchotlink|As a paradigm in crisis}}")
14:41, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro ip intellectual property (Created page with "{{drop|N|ot to be}} confused with {{confiprov|confidential information}}, intellectual property covers copyrights, patents, trade marks, property rights that arise at common law (or under statute ) which can be enforced against all comers, and not simply as a result of any {{t|contract}}. For intellectual property rights to arise there needs, as the name suggests, to be some application of someone’s intellect to the creation of the info...")
14:36, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page Template:M intro isda closeout (content was: "{{essay|isda|Closing out an ISDA}}", and the only contributor was "Amwelladmin" (talk))
12:55, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Trollery (Redirected page to Trolling) Tag: New redirect
12:54, 25 February 2025 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Dunning-Kruger effect (Created page with "{{a|troll|}}Or, ''a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A lot of knowledge is a worrying thing.'' A basic principle that explains much of the experience of life as a modern professional: People with limited knowledge in a given area tend to overestimate their understanding and ability to apply that knowledge. People with a lot of knowledge in an area underestimate how much they understand and tend to be less confident in their predictions. ====Role in trollery====...")