Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

  • IT’S. NOT JUST SCIENCE THAT ADVANCES WITH GRAVESTONES – ITS EVERYTHING Friend: “

    IT’S. NOT JUST SCIENCE THAT ADVANCES WITH GRAVESTONES – ITS EVERYTHING

    Friend: “It’s shocking that people can live in the same era and have such diametrically opposite views on the facts going on”

    Me: “Yeah. Rate of change. Stability of environments despite change. Stability of ideas in those stable environments. The culture, academy, and knowledge advance or decline with gravestones. :(“


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-14 22:38:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657877995820818434

  • The goal of space? Or of energy capture and conversion in defeat of entropy, tha

    The goal of space?
    Or of energy capture and conversion in defeat of entropy, that’s achieved through field (space, scope, breadth, diversity) of resource availability?

    Sustainability = persistence vs decay.
    Simpler=less fragile due to external shocks and changes.
    Safer(positiva) is an odd term for anything in the universe, but also means less fragile (negativa).

    Your example applies, yes.

    If we construct from first principles those properties we use to describe causality are consistent across the physical, biological, sentient, and cooperative.

    It’s this consistency across domains that falsifies false, and half-truth claims that cause error, bias, or deceit by suggestion, association, inference, deduction.

    This is why we work with such precise terms in P-Law: Every word we use we define as an ordinal measure of a spectrum (dimensions), constructed from first principles that survive falsification by tests of consistency across domains, forming and equilibrium between limits, between (-)demand, (=) persistence, (+) supply, and (!=) collapse.

    It’s not obvious to readers or even those following us that everything we say is constructed from differences in charge that equilibrate sufficiently sustainable energy capture to resist decay back into the quantum background, and from there into entropy by expansion of space.

    We’re just as strictly constructing as math, but by ordinal rather than cardinal terms, specifically because cardinality isn’t a meaningful measure when there is no reducible quantity, only triangulation of more than less than equal to(marginally indifferent) and not equal to(marginally different).

    Reply addressees: @FernandoGLV1212


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-13 14:56:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657399484576419843

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657393450159943681

  • “COOPERATION” EVOVED BEFORE LIFE (riffing off sabine) Systems of molecules mutua

    “COOPERATION” EVOVED BEFORE LIFE
    (riffing off sabine)

    Systems of molecules mutually benefiting each other are the most likely origin of life. “Life is an inevitable consequence of a universe that’s biased to opportunistically increase complexity.”

    Our framing of this phenomenon as “cooperation” requires we distinguish between accidental interaction, physical cooperation, cellular cooperation, reproductive cooperation, productive cooperation, and voluntary cooperation, and systems of voluntary cooperation(institutions).

    We refer to that hierarchy as ‘evolutionary computation’ of persistence by the defeat of entropy through the capture and concentration of energy, producing ‘work’.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-13 14:19:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657390006925664257

  • MUST READ THREAD (suggested by a friend) –“the activist left, not the religious

    MUST READ THREAD
    (suggested by a friend)

    –“the activist left, not the religious right, that has most vigorously sought to undermine evolution-based scientific research”–

    Furthermore, the religious right does so to create an authoritarian and immutable foundation for moral… https://twitter.com/avidseries/status/1656702691257597958


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-12 16:59:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657067897145966592

  • BELIEVE WHAT SCIENCE? (I deal with this every single day.) –“Around a third of

    BELIEVE WHAT SCIENCE?
    (I deal with this every single day.)

    –“Around a third of studies published in neuroscience journals, and about 24% in medical journals, are β€œmade up or plagiarized,” according to a new paper.”–via Science

    Worse, that doesn’t account for the studies that are just bad science, bad statistics, logically ridiculous, or contain nonsense claims not supported by the evidence. And yes I’m talking about behavioral sciences here, as well as the non-sciences that dress up in costume and claim they’re sciences.

    Worse, even that doesn’t account for the *implications* the papers produce by means of suggestion.

    Worse, generally speaking, if a paper supports the “gated institutional narrative” you can nearly guarrantee it’s false.

    So trust the science? It’s like trusting politicians, advertizers, and financial advisors. For the same reason: malincentives.

    Scientific papers must be treated as court testimony. Meaning if one performs due diligence, then one can err, but not mislead by statement, inference, or suggestion.

    Thanks.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-10 23:55:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1656447994697334784

  • That presumes that the science of the physicial world is different from that of

    That presumes that the science of the physicial world is different from that of the bhavioral world, but the only differences is the time between cause and consequence.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-10 22:40:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1656428941983326211

    Reply addressees: @FernandoGLV1212

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1656428410804084738

  • THE CONVERSATION THE WORLD NEEDS πŸ˜‰ Stephen Wolfram (@stephen_wolfram) is more s

    THE CONVERSATION THE WORLD NEEDS πŸ˜‰

    Stephen Wolfram (@stephen_wolfram) is more sophisticated than he knows how to put into words, and the interviewers who try to help him can’t compensate for themselves and the audience. A similar problem is just as obvious during interviews with Joscha Bach (@Plinz).

    I’d love to participate with the two of them moderated by either Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) or Curt Jaimungle (@TOEwithCurt). If for no other reason than to demonstrate to an interviewer how to conduct this category of interviews. And educating that interviewer would allow him to reach the audience and produce the resulting public good: understanding.

    The other person of value is Jeff Hawkins. But, it’s hard to interview Jeff because he is too aggressively and impulsively trying to add precision to what he and others are saying instead of letting the audience gradually follow the breadcrumbs to bridge the gulf in their understanding.

    Why? I work in what you’d consider epistemology of logic, language, economics, and law but what Wolfram and Bach would consider the spectrum of computational grammars.

    And computational grammar (Doolittle), like computational linguistics, is the bridge that connects mathematics and computation (Wolfram) with artificial intelligence and philosophy (Bach).

    And it’s easier to explain to the public as a hierarchy that’s consistent across every scale of the universe from the background to the ideas of human beings.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @tysonmaly @lexfridman @stephen_wolfram


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-09 19:59:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1656026183769751554

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1656016483053387776

  • Aristotle, Galileo, and Darwin were fringe πŸ˜‰ General rule of acceptance of a th

    Aristotle, Galileo, and Darwin were fringe πŸ˜‰

    General rule of acceptance of a theory:
    The ratio between:
    (a) the opportunity generated by it
    vs
    (b) the adaptive costs of it.

    Humans avoid all adaptive costs, physical, emotional, cognitive. Ergo enumerate opportunities vs…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-04 19:38:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654208944414285824

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654198369059762177

  • I’m interested in science, I know the science, and I know what science requires

    I’m interested in science, I know the science, and I know what science requires – especially given that science is just the application of testimony outside of the courtroom which is why Europeans developed reason, logic, empiricism, science and rule of law. But you’re unaware that my specialization is cross disciplinary in cognitive science, epistemology, computation and linguistics, economics and law, where the net result is that I end up specializing in sex class and cultural differences in lying. And you’re lying by a failure of due diligence. You can’t defend against due diligence unless you understand your biases (mine are anglo libertarian) and therefore use extra due diligence against the expression of those biases. You clearly don’t understand the term science (vs empiricism) or mathematics (vs computation), or the epistemological necessity of constructive logic vs correlative description. And if you don’t understand those differences then you should before you render and opinion.

    Reply addressees: @Nick65979825 @KingBoru_ @UsingLyft


    Source date (UTC): 2023-05-04 17:15:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654172837937020943

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654171059111723029

  • MORE: RE: ~”IQ ISN”T A PHYSICAL MEASURE”~ (If I don’t know the science I say so.

    MORE: RE: ~”IQ ISN”T A PHYSICAL MEASURE”~
    (If I don’t know the science I say so. If I know the science then I make an argument within stated limits.) https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1654118007361138689