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CTO | @NDMAssn | @VAusability Maker of the decision practice experience - The Plot Thinkens - https://t.co/B5AIjjmizQ
Virginia, USA
Joined February 2014
.@DavidDeutschOxf - I've written a critique of your explanation of the evolution of culture and creativity contained in The Beginning of Infinity. My critique is based in the social science methodological argument advanced by Karl Popper in The Poverty of Historicism. I dissect your explanation to argue that: 1) it is nothing but a modern exposition of the historicist doctrine -- sheer mythology, as Popper put it; and 2) failure to recognize it as such – despite its Popperian overcoat – may result in tacit solidarity with the very situations you genuinely seem to want to avoid. It takes a bit of time to read (~40 minutes) and requires a free sign up see full screen (sorry about that, but it's free). But I hope that you will read it and offer your own public critique in whatever format and venue suites you best. Thank you for your consideration. ****** By extension, the critique is also critical of works from the following, whose comments I also invite: @astupple
@ConjectureInst
@ChipkinLogan
@Ray_S_Percival
@FitzClaridge
@arjunkhemani
@ToKTeacher
@DeutschExplains
@reasonisfun
@metaLulie Given their financial support of some of the above producers, the essay might also be of interest to, who I also invite to respond: @naval
@jposhaughnessy Given their expressed interest in the topics under discussion, I'm also tagging the following and inviting their remarks: @JedLeaHenry
@InformReligion
@JonGuze
@WiringTheBrain
@rveulacia
@LSEPhilosophy
@LSEsociology
@MatjazLeonardis
@michaelshermer
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A more balanced understanding of the study is available here. I found it using Google. @astupple @ChipkinLogan @naval
Did you know about the fascinating study where orphaned children were allowed to choose their own diets from a variety of whole, unprocessed foods? Back in the 1920s and 1930s, a researcher named Clara Davis set up an experiment to see what would happen if kids were left to their own devices when it came to eating. The results were pretty mind-blowing.
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@Ronxyz00 @Diana_Chumley My general strategy is to let people talk first, for as long as they’d like. If they have a reasonable position, it will come out. In my experience, other positions come out quicker.
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@sbkaufman There’s a deeper, older explanatory structure in use. No disease explanation necessary. Happy to chat about it!
.@DavidDeutschOxf - I've written a critique of your explanation of the evolution of culture and creativity contained in The Beginning of Infinity. My critique is based in the social science methodological argument advanced by Karl Popper in The Poverty of Historicism. I dissect your explanation to argue that: 1) it is nothing but a modern exposition of the historicist doctrine -- sheer mythology, as Popper put it; and 2) failure to recognize it as such – despite its Popperian overcoat – may result in tacit solidarity with the very situations you genuinely seem to want to avoid. It takes a bit of time to read (~40 minutes) and requires a free sign up see full screen (sorry about that, but it's free). But I hope that you will read it and offer your own public critique in whatever format and venue suites you best. Thank you for your consideration. ****** By extension, the critique is also critical of works from the following, whose comments I also invite: @astupple
@ConjectureInst
@ChipkinLogan
@Ray_S_Percival
@FitzClaridge
@arjunkhemani
@ToKTeacher
@DeutschExplains
@reasonisfun
@metaLulie Given their financial support of some of the above producers, the essay might also be of interest to, who I also invite to respond: @naval
@jposhaughnessy Given their expressed interest in the topics under discussion, I'm also tagging the following and inviting their remarks: @JedLeaHenry
@InformReligion
@JonGuze
@WiringTheBrain
@rveulacia
@LSEPhilosophy
@LSEsociology
@MatjazLeonardis
@michaelshermer
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@Ray_S_Percival @astupple @AW43755181 @VadenMasrani @B_Vanderhaegen @BennyChugg @GadSaad While @GadSaad grossly misapplies a biological metaphor to account for his “mind viruses,” credit where credit is due - at least he seems to recognize the autonomy of World 3.
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@emollick I have used ChatGPT more for posts on this site than anywhere else. It is tremendously useful checking logic , even if I have to keep reminding it of the premises. Like here:
For those interested in logic, below is the URL for a ChatGPT session I just ran. It started with three premises drawn from @DavidDeutschOxf's The Beginning of Infinity (premise #1) and @astupple & @ChipkinLogan's The Sovereign Child (premises #2 and #3). Given that LLMs produce different outputs each time they run, I encourage everyone to run their own sessions. As you'll see, ChatGPT needs help along the way, but only to be reminded of the original premises and its own conclusions, and to be pressed to produce more. Note that none of my prompting suggested Method #72. I welcome any critique of my selection of the premises and my prompts, or any other critique folks might have. @Ray_S_Percival @ToKTeacher @naval @jposhaughnessy @JonGuze
#World3
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@JohnNosta Maps have never worked that way either. They've always been snapshots. They can't be anything else because that which they represent is perpetually changing.
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@justinskycak If learning necessarily follows failure, and success necessarily follows learning, then, by definition, failure is a key to success. Learning may also follow success. In those cases, success must be either known prior to the learning event, or guessed.
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Terrific work, Todd.
How the world has changed over the last century. A compilation of some of our greatest accomplishments as a species. Credit: @toddrjones
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Well said. And in the meantime we can do some pretty slick things with dominos.
man there's one thing ik for sure everything can be questioned in science. which makes the definition of ground truth almost arbitrary. which feels very weird at first. then it feels kinda existentially based. befriending the uncertainty about how you exist feels kind of good. it makes scientific discovery beautiful 'standing on the shoulders of giants' can mean 'standing on a stack of dominoes' for some theories we happily believe today. which is fine
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.@DavidDeutschOxf - I've written a critique of your explanation of the evolution of culture and creativity contained in The Beginning of Infinity. My critique is based in the social science methodological argument advanced by Karl Popper in The Poverty of Historicism. I dissect your explanation to argue that: 1) it is nothing but a modern exposition of the historicist doctrine -- sheer mythology, as Popper put it; and 2) failure to recognize it as such – despite its Popperian overcoat – may result in tacit solidarity with the very situations you genuinely seem to want to avoid. It takes a bit of time to read (~40 minutes) and requires a free sign up see full screen (sorry about that, but it's free). But I hope that you will read it and offer your own public critique in whatever format and venue suites you best. Thank you for your consideration. ****** By extension, the critique is also critical of works from the following, whose comments I also invite: @astupple
@ConjectureInst
@ChipkinLogan
@Ray_S_Percival
@FitzClaridge
@arjunkhemani
@ToKTeacher
@DeutschExplains
@reasonisfun
@metaLulie Given their financial support of some of the above producers, the essay might also be of interest to, who I also invite to respond: @naval
@jposhaughnessy Given their expressed interest in the topics under discussion, I'm also tagging the following and inviting their remarks: @JedLeaHenry
@InformReligion
@JonGuze
@WiringTheBrain
@rveulacia
@LSEPhilosophy
@LSEsociology
@MatjazLeonardis
@michaelshermer
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