Her delivery on terraforming is not quite so deadpan. But I say build that fusion reactor and the superconducting ring!
> On Oct 16, 2021, at 9:28 AM, David Eric Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Very nice line in Hossenfelder's podcast, which works because of her rather > Aspergers delivery. > > What one hears (with a fully sincere affect): > > The society of truth-loving men no longer exists. > > Had there been a written version, one might have found: > > The “Society of Truth-Loving Men” no longer exists. > > Both acceptable. > > God Bless Sabine. > > Eric > > >> On Oct 14, 2021, at 7:03 PM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, it seems obvious to me (admittedly at risk of imputation or >> Dunning-Kruger) that we all have both modes in our repertoire. Maybe there >> are subsets of us who lean hard one way or the other. But I guess that just >> kicks the can down the road. Too much soldier ⇒ not recognizing when to >> switch to scout mode. And vice versa, like those pitiful truth-s[uc|ee]kers >> stuck in a conversation with a zero-sum logicbro. >> >> It's error-correcting self-attention loops all the way down ... and up. And >> if you're not exercising your low/fast interrupts (capsaicin , yoga, LSD, >> whatever), then you're probably not exercising your high/slow interrupts >> (active listening, abandoning pet theories, etc.). The idea that we can >> strengthen the high/slow interrupts without also strengthening the low/fast >> ones seems fideistic to me ... like telekinesis or somesuch. >> >> Tangentially, I'm somewhat of a fan of Goertzel. But this worries me: >> >> Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports >> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbookshop.org%2fbooks%2fevidence-for-psi-thirteen-empirical-research-reports%2f9780786478286&c=E,1,wzGTnONTUzfmGhmFisinj17cKD_FmLSmg1C_jkpPC7sVOugtqwM01wfgiWVMy-REH2Uh3iTdPDVZkxoyLD6KgPMA7EaeZbFT9W3s1xBj8TYNWS7w&typo=1 >> >> Maybe one of you has read it? I'm told it contains some fantastic nuggets >> about statistics, which makes me want a copy. And this video presents a good >> argument, regardless of the gist: >> >> How I learned to love pseudoscience >> https://youtu.be/bWV0XIn-rvY >> >> But I worry about my own ability to switch from scout to soldier ... which >> is why the right-wing morons I talk to at the pub don't immediately murder >> me. Once they get to know me, they don't love me anymore. >> >>> On 10/14/21 3:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >>> Even with a scout mentality there is the problem of modeling the deck of >>> alternative scenarios that arise from uncertainty in a map. The tendency >>> to take imputed values for a set of unknown variables is a practical >>> cognitive resource limitation that one can acknowledge or fail to >>> acknowledge. To challenge a person’s gut feeling -- all those imputed >>> values -- and to observe the exasperation (even perceived persecution) that >>> may result from the challenge is how I distinguish scouts from soldiers. >>> There are surely some tactical benefits to soldiers running toward the >>> enemy with their bayonets to not spend a lot of time reflecting on how >>> confident they are that the person they are running toward is their enemy. >>> >>> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale >>> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 1:17 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [dis]integrated >>> >>> >>> The Scout Mindset >>> >>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbookshop.org%2fbooks%2fthe-scout-mindset-why-some-people-see-things-clearly-and-others-don-t%2f9780735217553&c=E,1,3zlCRFjEuJJ-3kftNjvHchMqPeKe3NJ4etshrs4wu1bDoHn8FPIwjT3EQFSkYEwhrezzsXzlJpEUMPqu_LqT9xQCWzVTwu7FDuKwHQQxyx1k8f12UsFnn-dT&typo=1 >> >> >> -- >> "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." >> ☤>$ uǝlƃ >> >> >> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe >> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,oNtv9anMskayIBdLCUMVDec4kd4ozgMKDNHurar3RKqaQhwv5YOofhHy4BbEQGtyRR_FQLlJzsSFsVNYGsVEJCwGuBk-Q01arZUUD03AjKxgVMMSLQoVQQ,,&typo=1 >> FRIAM-COMIC >> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,OMYM_NLjhTJjiLSukn3KsxvnPIlWBajEFAUrL-6Fl7SdPJhWLLUYZVs3u4_d0L4-YFO_riHzQNoMjW7YrqTfC0_V4T-XAYsMbJ8y9AiHrg,,&typo=1 >> archives: >> 5/2017 thru present >> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fpipermail%2ffriam_redfish.com%2f&c=E,1,k6sThdrRks9BGfx_CNvhzlmJTeSeZYCYEL7pAA1WpyBGUi56FUmsz9yrHitTpn4522wc9qDeCkMJmK1FAFG6t00XORfgvR3njkt-8kNzHZ03&typo=1 >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . 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