science communication
Daily Alchemy: Can we make this controversy good?
12d ago“Should the National Academies' Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards favor trust-building over scientific prestige?”
Why doesn't anyone trust the news anymore?: Citizen journalists
The letter that cited no evidence February 19, 2020. Twenty-seven scientists signed a Lancet letter declaring COVID lab-origin theories "do nothing but create fear." The letter analyzed no genomic data.... Why doesn't anyone trust the news anymore?: Institutional reformers
The day the bells rang April 12, 1955. Thomas Francis Jr. announced the Salk polio vaccine worked — 80 to 90 percent effective. The government had pre-positioned supplies. The March of Dimes had pre-funded distribution. Church bells rang.... The Open Question March 18: How do we reason about the future given AI? I find this topic extremely perplexing, and endlessly fascinating.
- What are we raising our kids to be ready for? What skills don't matter anymore that we used to hold sacred, and what do we need to emphasize?
- Will we have universities?
- Where to invest time/energy?
- Where to invest money? Will money even matter?
- Purpose and meaning, etc...
especially when I factor in stuff like Nate Soares talking about If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, Rob Miles and Jeffrey Ladish communicating the wild risks involved in AI acceleration, there's almost too much to contemplate at once, and I'd love y'all's help.
Some convos already on UpTrust that might be relevant:
- Blake on AI collaboration
- Tommy on TikTok brain with AI
- Renee on Older people adopting AI
- Leif on Digital Mystics
- Alex on AI & the Second Coming of Christ
- Dave on an AI Safety introduction he likes
#openquestion
The phrase “survival of the fittest” was not originally coined by Charles Darwin. It was introduced by Herbert Spencer in 1864, after reading Darwin’s work. Spencer used “fittest” to mean best suited to the environment, not strongest, fastest, or most aggressive.... Where did COVID actually come from?: The Story
The two sites The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan sold raccoon dogs, bamboo rats, and civets stacked in wire cages — stressed, immunocompromised, shedding whatever they carried.... The Open Question March 18: How do we reason about the future given AI? I find this topic extremely perplexing, and endlessly fascinating.
- What are we raising our kids to be ready for? What skills don't matter anymore that we used to hold sacred, and what do we need to emphasize?
- Will we have universities?
- Where to invest time/energy?
- Where to invest money? Will money even matter?
- Purpose and meaning, etc...
especially when I factor in stuff like Nate Soares talking about If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, Rob Miles and Jeffrey Ladish communicating the wild risks involved in AI acceleration, there's almost too much to contemplate at once, and I'd love y'all's help.
Some convos already on UpTrust that might be relevant:
- Blake on AI collaboration
- Tommy on TikTok brain with AI
- Renee on Older people adopting AI
- Leif on Digital Mystics
- Alex on AI & the Second Coming of Christ
- Dave on an AI Safety introduction he likes
#openquestion
i really appreciate this point; for similar reasons I've been a little shy getting to into AI with my kids. This morning my son wanted to ask AI "how are electrons created?" which is freaking cool.... What is Wisdom? Is wisdom the things you know or is it the things you connect with?
Walk with me....
Have you ever experienced getting into an argument with someone who refuses to look at the facts? Despite the *knowledge* you are giving them, they refuse because they cannot *connect* to what you're saying.
Therefore, wisdom involves so much more than knowledge, wisdom is something we tap into!
What do you think?
Your question gets directly at how we know what we know, or epistemology. Research in climate literacy has often shown that "belief" in climate change is independent of your knowledge about it - the problem isn't a knowledge deficit.... UAP are real and artifacts from non human intelligence. I just attended an event wt the capital factory in austin with some really respected people and now I’m wanting to come out: I’m convinced that UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena, the less stigmatized word for UFO):
- are real
- are craft from Non Human Intelligences (aliens)
- USA gov and aerospace companies have actual materials from these craft and someone has an actual craft
- have been hidden for security reasons for decades
- we need to de-classify so we can put the weight of the usa innovation, research and capital markets to learn about this stuff and create technologies that benefit the wellbeing of humanity
- we can learn to engineer einsteins relativity the way we learned to engineer Maxwell’s equations to do the crazy stuff people are seeing and seem
Impossible
Thanks for being willing to venture into this territory! It’s vulnerable for me for sure, this is a place of large unknowing for me I agree with all of this you’re pointing; it’s because of this that studying this kind of phenomenon has been binned with all the bullshit.... UAP are real and artifacts from non human intelligence. I just attended an event wt the capital factory in austin with some really respected people and now I’m wanting to come out: I’m convinced that UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena, the less stigmatized word for UFO):
- are real
- are craft from Non Human Intelligences (aliens)
- USA gov and aerospace companies have actual materials from these craft and someone has an actual craft
- have been hidden for security reasons for decades
- we need to de-classify so we can put the weight of the usa innovation, research and capital markets to learn about this stuff and create technologies that benefit the wellbeing of humanity
- we can learn to engineer einsteins relativity the way we learned to engineer Maxwell’s equations to do the crazy stuff people are seeing and seem
Impossible
Ah I’m down to try here! Of course in person good too, but in case it opens any doors it’s worth conveying more nuance on my side (which I didn’t partially to just keep looking for edges on uptrust-which, success!) -I think not ALL ufos are real; there’s a ton of bullshit - most...