@gro_tsen 1/
The epistemic status of medicine is not clear.
Without any irony when you start to define what is to be sick, or what is a disease it is very hard to find non-circular definitions. Is it deviation from the mean ? How much ? Where is the frontier ? Why ? Etc.
@gro_tsen 2/
Now how can you have a scientific approach when you are not even able to precisely define the object of study ?
Hence how would you understand a word like "it is the cause of" etc. when you have a rough understanding at best ?
Sep 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ The whole issue of legacy is a problem I didn't expected with relation to digital culture.
#BTC and crypto in general illustrate this point: right now you have nothing essentially better than giving the keys to a lawyer and hope for the best.
2/ You can imagine a lot of schemes to tame this issue but, as the lawyer solution they are rather antithetical with the very idea of cryptocurrencies: you lose pseudonymity, you need to centralize again (going to see a lawyer is the most centralizing thing I can think about)...
Sep 1, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1/ This is a word salad.
There is a whole part of the report on ethics but it tells nothing.
What does it mean concretly ? It means that you have sentences in which you cannot write the opposite or a different thing than what is written.
2/ Example: "Public health action requires careful judgement and acceptance of responsibility
for the outcomes.". Can you imagine a document in which it is written that you are going have a "careless" action, and without accepting any responsability ? No: so this sentence is void
