by orchaeus | Jun 27, 2021 | Shared Link
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…
by orchaeus | Jun 21, 2021 | Shared Link
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…...
by orchaeus | Jun 20, 2021 | Shared Link
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...
by orchaeus | Jun 16, 2021 | Shared Link
∞ 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...
by orchaeus | Jun 15, 2021 | Shared Link
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...
by orchaeus | Jun 3, 2021 | Shared Link