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https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/26/22550981/carl-bergstrom-joe-bak-coleman-biologists-ecologists-social-media-risk-humanity-research-academicsIt is imperative that we re-engineer the internet… intelligently. Now. Actually, we are 20 years too late…

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https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sun-is-stranger-than-astrophysicists-imagined?utm_source=pocket-newtabWe’re about to discover that a lot of what we call science is actually just bias, + hubris, + failure to examine our own bias and hubris…...

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https://youtu.be/uagBr-Dds3II am seeing more and more claims in the media that begin or end with “There’s no evidence that (append some concern or assertion about something here)”. But absence of evidence != evidence of absence. This is a rhetorical...

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∞ Paradoxes are presented as novelties and contradictions. In point of fact, however, their originators had an entirely other intention: to direct us to the collapse of orders, restore them, and with them… our hope of something resembling intelligence. Paradoxes...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/brain-mind-cognition.htmlI am a big fan of the idea of cohort-sensemaking. Evolutionarily, humans almost always sought answers and made sense of things »in groups rather than in isolates. However, some forms of...