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David Chapman @Meaningness
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If you want to find out how science works, you have to watch scientists doing it. (Not make plausible stuff up and rationalizing it.)

Learning an embodied know-how skill: getting the right amount of alcohol on the Q-tip used to clean a microscopy sample.

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You can also go into the lab and try doing science yourself. It’s not as easy as it looks!

When I developed robotics and analysis software for chemists and biologists, I insisted on doing some wet experiments myself, to get a *felt sense* of what their needs were.
Statistician @betanalpha, consulting for malaria vaccine development project, dissected salivary glands of mosquitos under a microscope and counted the parasites, to make sure he understood what the data he was analyzing meant. #respect

h/t Matt Simpson

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Trying to explain “mere reasonableness” to rationalists typically goes something like this…

It’s so hard to set aside the unthought cognitivist assumption that everyday human activity can only be the result of a machine that is a defective approximation to formal rationality.
Any field that seriously investigates what people actually do rediscovers this insight. Ethnomethodology has gone further than others.
Hmph, I see I already wrote a summary of this two years ago. (I haven’t had any time to write this year, so I’d forgotten.) Extracted from the summary (which is itself probably too short to explain much): meaningness.com/metablog/meta-…
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Could Twitter split into Interesting People Net and Hatred Mob Net, to serve each of its current constituencies better?

What features could they add/remove to make each branch naturally attract people of that sort?

I would love a “Politics!” button that would transfer the tweet to Machiavelli Net, whose users would probably enjoy it
Several excellent replies to this!

I meant my tweet mostly as as throwaway joke, but the responses make me think I should have been more serious. Feeling slightly ashamed.
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“You are at the bottom of a deep epistemic well.”

Phil Agre on the existential dilemma of the graduate student: you have no way of knowing that the field you have chosen—because the problem matters and there’s seeming progress—is total nonsense.
If you are smart and lucky, by the time you get your PhD, you have figured out that your research discipline is fatally flawed and no meaningful progress is possible.

Now you are stuck: unemployable except as an active colluder in obscuring this reality.
Institutional reforms to unlock smart people stuck in dead-end disciplines might dramatically increase research productivity

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Them:

“Born with a penis? You’re a MALE. Born with a vagina? You’re a FEMALE. If you have a penis I will refer to you as MALE. If you have a vagina I will refer to you as FEMALE. Don’t care how much this offends you snowflakes that try to identify as something you’re not.”

Us:
Aaaah, isn’t #science wonderful?

#FactsDontCareAboutYourFeelings
Oh, and for the record, we didn’t make that quote up.

Someone literally said that pretty much verbatim on here (see below).

Over 114,000 likes.

Maybe y’all should boost the top tweet in this thread to give Twitter a mass education on this topic, yeah?

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Hysterical!
A walk down memory lane. Democrats were looking in a mirror & describing themselves as they projected it on republicans.
They saw themselves as the Roadrunner. Turns out they are Coyote EXACTLY- even the cartoon image they chose fits today. progresstexas.org/blog/welcome-w…
In this article the Dems accuse the right of:
(you can’t make this stuff up)
1. Trying to steal the election.
2. Denying the president his right to pick a SC justice.
3. Anti social action.
4. Refusing to meet or vote on nominees.

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5. “Violating an unwritten rule that is of critical to the health of democracy: the to peaceably defer to a winning party or candidate

6. denying the wishes of majority American voters & the legitimacy of The presidency, they are ripping apart the social-political fabric.
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He wakes up once again to an empty room. He looks for his phone which he finds at the dresser with his car key. His shoes neatly arranged next to the closet and curtains drawn.

He checks the bathroom but there is no sign of the younger.

Failing to have his call picked up,
he sends a text and starts to feel anxious.

Did Kyungsoo run away?

He opens the closet and finds their bags with their wallets inside. It means the other only has his phone with him.

And he's not answering any calls and texts.

He's seriously getting worried.
If before, he could contact his cousin and ask of his whereabouts, right now he doesn't have anyone to turn to.

Just then the door opens, revealing a drenched Kyungsoo. The younger just stands there, at the doorway with a bashful smile.

"What happened to you? Why are you wet?"
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Shane is fangirling about meeting Rebekah and Kol, the Original vampires, and bragging about not being able to be compelled. Then Bex tells Kol to beat the location of the cure out of him. Lol. Imagine meeting your idols and they beat the shit out of you.
Back to this. "Truth or dare, Elena?"
"Dare." Damn that's brave.
"I dare you to tell Stefan the truth about Damon."
Sweetie, that's truth not dare, but I am here for this.
"Seriously?!" Caroline being there for Stefan again.
Bex is being really childish though
"Being with Damon makes me happy." HSHDFLK YES IT DOES.
"Makes you happy? Clowns make you happy Elena. Dig a little deeper."
Actually, clowns do quite the opposite of making me happy, but to each their own Rebekah. 🙈
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1/ #QAnon

#Fal$eFlag

Consider:
1. #Trump says he wants out of #Syria.
2. #Assad has essentially won. Why create an event to draw a response?
3. Immediately after Trump tweets about leaving Syria, there is a #ChemicalAttack.
4. #Israel attacks Syria last night.

Ask WHY??
2/ Anyone who has been following things can see that the #DeepState wants #War.

WHY?

Military-industrial complex.
Oil.
and worse (depopulation).

Too hard to believe? Look at the patterns (now and in the past)...do they fit?
3/ #Trump works out a deal w/#NK (back in November)...after our October bombing took out their major nuclear facility and 200 scientists.

As background, the #DeepState was using #NK as a puppet regime to hold us hostage...they wanted #WAR.

fleporeblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/wha…
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#Science vs #BJP

Bjp is party very educated party consisting of scientists , researchers,doctors , IITians , Oxford topper economist.
Here we have some of important theories nd reserch done by important organisation.
One of our very intelligent after a years of hard work in his lab with his Braille book found out dat natural calamities can b prevented by reading hanuman chalisa.

Another important member of our research team.after working yr on theory of evolution,he concluded dat theory is false. few of illiterate were unhappy about his remark.

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