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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Science departed from philosophy precisely when methodology about evidence and falsifiability of claims became involved. Without experiments to determine if a claim is false, a branch of study is really just one big session of just-so stori
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Astronomy and biology absolutely feature testable predictions. Science really can't happen without that feature. It's certainly not a myth. If you make a prediction that by its nature cannot be tested, you really can't do any
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
differentiating fact from speculation is a difficult and important venture that requires vigilance throughout one's entire lifetime. It's very hard, and we all slip up because it's not really how our brains like to work.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Museum model perhaps?
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
It happened, but they conglomerated back together. And they captured all the regulatory bodies this time. We are going to have to get creative or settle in and prepare for an eternal reaming.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I think a big part of it was that the internet still had a lot of artifacts from the pre-advertising model days. I think we're being blindsided by just how bad the side effects of the advertising model are for media. In general, not ju
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
If you're doing a larger project on it then I think you need to re-calibrate your expectations. It's more for educational play.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This really reminds me of a lot of Niklas Jansson's concepts over at https://androidarts.com/ I love the way he thinks and distills a design to give it so much character. He does lots of retro hardware re-designs too,
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
True, it's well known that engineers don't often have appreciation for the emotionality of marketing. But there's a limit here. We can't just have no-holds-barred hyperbole and outright lying to the point of unfairly dec
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I also think that even with advanced cognitive computing it would be difficult for a computer to interpret those songs meaningfully without having lived through those times. I don't think a competent human could interpret those songs w
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I think we're huge technological leaps and bounds--I mean light-years--away from AGI so advanced it requires some form of computer psychology. But I do think it might eventually happen. And I don't think people are going to do a g
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Is that not parsing and keyword searching? Once again there's no "cognitive computing" going on. Which is a really weird and nebulous thing to define, by the way. I think we aren't going to have super convincing cognitiv
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
It's interesting. I think we're at a strange period in history where personal speech can reach such a huge audience, thus new ways of suppressing speech are being invented. Youtube is a private service, thus they can remove conten
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
There should be a social network for lonely, security-obsessed linux people who refuse to partake in social media. Maybe we should start raising homing pigeons and send little notes to each other. I need to get my ham license one of these d
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I think the validity of exercise being beneficial to one's health is so thoroughly proven that nobody is going to remove those videos as "false medical claims." It's not the same as saying that an untested supplement wil
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
“Nothing illegal, no medical advice offered, I've always been incredibly careful about this.” The article then goes on to name several videos with titles like "increase energy," "improve concentration and memory," &
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
It's nice when you can define yourself as clever and everyone else as a loser with an arbitrary quote. It doesn't really carry any weight, though.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
That's utterly fascinating. What a bastard the human brain is. I'm going to try that.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
You just can't impress everyone.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I'm sure they control for that. I doubt the people doing the study are unaware of the most basic cognitive biases.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
Believe it or not, relying on other people to google your claims is not a good way to present evidence. I can find confirmations and denials of literally any concept in the universe on google. This is more a general rule when discussing med
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This is a real downside of the festival. Just how financially burdensome it is filters and restricts the kinds of perspectives and culture that can enter. It's not just the ticket cost. It's the travel, the ability to leave work,
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
I think successful people in STEM fields have a high risk of assuming they're competent in other unrelated fields. People shouldn't take medical advice from people on the internet, even if they say they are a doctor. Medicine is h
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This isn't evidence, this is marketing and anecdotes.
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by vertexFarm 8y ago
This kind of comment curating is a really terrible idea. We've seen what kind of problems the reddit system creates. It shouldn't be emulated.