Open weight (read: free) models are widely available and good enough that most people probably couldn't tell the difference.
主流观点认为付费的云端LLM服务在质量上显著优于免费开源模型，但作者声称开源模型已经好到大多数用户无法分辨差异，这挑战了付费服务价值主张的核心，暗示AI行业可能面临价值重估。
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But those raising hue and cry about the government's unsurprising attempt to wield a technology for military purposes that all parties agree will define humanity's fate must at least attempt to justify why they believe someone else deserves that power.
这句话挑战了批评政府军事化AI技术的声音，要求他们提出替代方案。作者暗示在AI可能决定人类命运的情况下，简单地反对政府控制而不提供替代方案是不负责任的，反映了技术治理中的实用主义立场。
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Dissemination has historically been interpreted as unilateral communication of information. With the advent of the internet, and the explosion in popularity of online communities, social media has changed the information landscape in many respects, and creates both new modes of communication and new types of information",[36] changing the interpretation of the definition of dissemination. The nature of social networks allows for faster diffusion of information than through organizational sources.[37] The internet has changed the way we view, use, create, and store information; now it is time to re-evaluate the way we share and spread it.
Si bien, se define la comunicación de la información cómo algo "unilateral" -que está muy bien, dependiendo desde que arista se vea- cambiaría esto (Incluso con la mención "desde antes de la llegada del Internet") al hecho de que esto puede llegar a modificarse cómo algo BILATERAL en algunos o en la gran mayoría de casos.
Un caso puntual sería, donde un individuo difunde información y esta llega a un receptor o un espacio receptivo que está a la espera de este conocimiento para seguir difundiéndolo interactúa con este primer individuo y su conocimiento compartido creando y generando el famoso "intercambio de saberes".
Esto nace de que no es que haya un solo creador de conocimiento que simplemente se encarga de difundirlo y ya, sino que en su lugar, aparecería un agente externo que lo recibe e intercambia conocimiento con este
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The conservative media company behind the book and film “2,000 Mules,” which alleged a widespread conspiracy by Democrats to steal the 2020 election and was embraced by former President Donald Trump, has issued an apology and said it would halt distribution of the film and remove both the film and book from its platforms. In a statement posted to their website, Salem Media Group, Inc. apologized specifically to Mark Andrews, a voter from Georgia falsely depicted illegally voting in “2,000 Mules.”
The retraction of 2000 Mules by its distributor and the apology to falsely accused individuals...
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Affinity's public filings indicate that PIF's investment will generate $25 million in annual asset management fees for Affinity, in addition to a share of any profits made—representing a substantial windfall for Mr. Kushner, Affinity's sole owner.
$25m in annual asset management fees Affinity, owned solely by Jared Kushner
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The clear hidden wink and nudge is “clearly this means she’s obviously 100% a plant from that side!” What else was said in that speech? Maybe show a whole 3-4 minutes? But that would be boring and you can’t do the whole show a fast snip and then wink wink at your audience about “aha but we all know what this really means don’t we folks!
/u/Choperollo describes something for which we have no name and would not be accurately described as a dogwhistle but still shares some similarities and is now common/prevalent enough that we would perhaps benefit from being able to refer to it by name to discuss it.
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extensiblewebmanifesto.org extensiblewebmanifesto.org
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Developers can ramp up more quickly on new APIs, providing quicker feedback to the platform while the APIs are still the most malleable. Mistakes in APIs can be corrected quickly by the developers who use them, and library authors who serve them, providing high-fidelity, critical feedback to browser vendors and platform designers.
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clauswilke.com clauswilke.com
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More recently, Lior Pachter has argued that t-SNE and the related UMAP do not serve a meaningful purpose in data analysis and are only useful for producing art.
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Methods like t-stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) and uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) faithfully capture and reveal local and non-linear relationships in complex microbiome datasets, but their tuning is finicky
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magazine.rice.edu magazine.rice.edu
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By writing a paper, you’re going to have to take all these bits of evidence into account, weigh them and figure out how to articulate them correctly. That’s a process of character building
Why chatGPT can't replace writing
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In response, Yampolskiy told Business Insider he thought Musk was "a bit too conservative" in his guesstimate and that we should abandon development of the technology now because it would be near impossible to control AI once it becomes more advanced.
for - suggestion- debate between AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy and Musk and founders of AI - difference - business leaders vs pure researchers // - Comment - Business leaders are mainly driven by profit so already have a bias going into a debate with a researcher who is neutral and has no declared business interest
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“Building housing in existing communities is one of our best climate solutions, and paving over 17,000 acres of non-irrigated farmland is not,
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sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - Study by Preservation Green Lab in 2012 concluded that in most cases, reusing existing buildings is far lower carbon footprint than building new - Research study shows that we cannot expand human activity into intact nature any longer if we are to stay within planetary boundaries - Rockstrom - https://hyp.is/0dbJ4FQSEe-QxY8q4Y3yvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaboF3vAsZs
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for - Preserving old, existing buildings is greenest - from - California Forever - intentional community - green debate
from - California Forever - intentional community - green debate - https://hyp.is/DKpS7FQGEe-xvLfZC4U-7Q/www.truthdig.com/articles/californias-urban-dream/
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newsletter.weskao.com newsletter.weskao.com
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To establish a norm of rigorous thinking, you’ll want to encourage your team to speak up if they disagree, and to do so respectfully and openly. And when questions are asked of them, to react positively and see the questions as a gift. This part is important: A team member’s initial reaction may be to feel a little defensive, and that’s natural, but that’s not the reaction to act on. The way to react is to appreciate when a colleague cares enough to speak up.
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nobody's really pricing this in
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progress trap - debate - nobody is discussing the dangers of such a project! - Civlization's journey has to create more and more powerful tools for human beings to use - but this tool is different because it can act autonomously - It can solve problems that will dwarf our individual or even group ability to solve - Philosophically, the problem / solution paradigm becomes a central question because, - As presented in Deep Humanity praxis, - humans have never stopped producing progress traps as shadow sides of technology because - the reductionist problem solving approach always reaches conclusions based on finite amount of knowledge of the relationships of any one particular area of focus - in contrast to the infinite, fractal relationships found at every scale of nature - Supercomputing can never bridge the gap between finite and infinite - A superintelligent artifact with that autonomy of pattern recognition may recognize a pattern in which humans are not efficient and in fact, greater efficiency gains can be had by eliminating us
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In Frankreich beginnt in dieser Woche eine öffentliche Debatte um ein großes lithium-bergbauprojekt im zentralmassiv. Der umfassende Artikel beleuchtet eine Vielzahl von Aspekten des lithium-Abbaus und der zunehmenden Opposition dagegen, die eng mit dem Kampf gegen die individuelle motorisierte Mobilität verbunden ist. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/course-au-lithium-made-in-france-une-opportunite-a-saisir-ou-un-mirage-ecologique-20240310_FQOVXTBNKJC5NJ7EZI2UQKOAIY/in
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- expert: Judith Pigneur
- company: Lithium de France
- event: public debate on Emili
- institution: Observatoire français des ressources minérales
- project: Emili
- country: Argentina
- expert: Antoine Gatet
- research project: EuGeLi (European Geothermal Lithium)
- project: Montagne d'Or
- NGO: Négawatt
- Institution: Commission nationale du débat public (CNDP)
- fédération d’associations France nature environnement (FNE)
- country: China
- institution: IEA
- ressouce: water
- lithium
- company: Electricité de Strasbourg
- expert: Aurélien Gay
- ressouce: Lithium
- mode: government action
- Region: Allier
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- region: Massif central
- institution: Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRGM)
- by: Coralie Schaub
- expert: Ysaline Jean-Jacque
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- country: Australia
- actor: Imerys
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- country: Chile
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Der Finanzausschuss des amerikanischen Senats hat über einen Bericht zur Klima-Desinformation durch die Öl- und Gasbranche debattiert. Der Bericht führt detailliert auf, wie die Öffentlichkeit über Jahrzehnte manipuliert wurde. Inzwischen hätten „Täuschung, Desinformation und Doppelzüngigkeit“ die Klimaleugnung abgelöst. In der Debatte verwendeten republikanische Senatoren die traditionelle Rhetorik der Klimaleugnung. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/big-oil-danger-disinformation-fossil-fuels
Bericht; https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fossil_fuel_report1.pdf
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- NGO: Climate Defiance
- actor: Republican Party
- actor: American Petroleum Institute
- country: USA
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- report: Denial, Disinformation and Doublespeak
- event: Debate about climate disinformation in the US senate April 2024
- expert: Kert Davies
- institution: Center for Climate Integrity
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McLuhan (2005) once observed that the medium is the message
This is a complex topic that has significant implications for distance education.
Also of relevance here is M.G. Moore's Theory of Transactional Distace.
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suggestion - can we arrange an online debate between James Hansen and Michael Mann?
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generally derives from variations in filtering out spurious and low-abundant sequences (e.g. Edgar, 2017; Prodan et al., 2020).
DADA2 like ASV vs OTU?
Applying different workflows on the same data will always demonstrate a certain level of variation among pipelines. These variations are usually most obvious in terms of the reported number of features.
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Summary
- See the Dan Miller interview in the reference below
- The key point for SRG work in mobilizing and awakening the sleeping giant of the commons is summarized in the 3rd required action in the last sentence of his abstract:
- "Current political crises present an opportunity for RESET, especially if young people can grasp their situation." (Bold is from SRG)
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- James Hansen Dec. 2023 interview discussing this paper
- https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2F8Ag3UVSrlhE%2F&group=world
- Dan Miller, who interviews Hansen and who has coauthored a paper with him, states in the interview that May 2024 is a test date for validating the paper's claims:
- https://hyp.is/HRKEfqYAEe6lGJ_E57_9Mw/docdrop.org/video/8Ag3UVSrlhE/
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- Michael Mann's critique of the paper
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My impression is that human brains arevery much of a pattern, that under thesame conditions they react in the sameway, and that were it not for tradition,upbringing, accidents of circumstance,and particularly of accidental individualobsessions, we should find ourselves-since we all face the same universe-muchmore in agreement than is superficiallyapparent. We speak different languagesand dialects of thought and can even attimes catch ourselves flatly contradictingone another in words while we are doingour utmost to express the same idea.How often do we see men misrepresent-ing one another in order to exaggerate adifference and secure the gratification ofan argumentative victory!
We're far more alike than we imagine says Wells. Most of our difference is nitpicking for the sake of argument itself rather than actual meaning.
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discussion: effectiveness of community action to address climate crisis
- This is a good discussion on the effectiveness of community action to address the climate crisis.
- It offers a diverse range of perspectives that can all be mapped using SRG trailmark protocol and then data visualized within Indyweb via cytoscape
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library.scholarcy.com library.scholarcy.com
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uggested that it may socially determine what should be ‘normal’ sex for women and men.
porn acts as guidlines in a way for reality, which links to Baudrillard's impact of media, 2-way transformation
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sexual culture which emphasises the private
is porn a private or public (state) issue? against feminism as personal is political
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acceptance of the need to assert women’s sexual pleasure, and the increase of mediated sexual discourses, mean that agendas have shifted and diversified.
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feminists’ ‘sex wars’,
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individual and society or between freedom and control
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The debate over pornography within feminism has been polarized
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descriptions both disturbing and arousing
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It mentions that some feminists believe pornography harms women and perpetuates inequality, while others argue that it can provide opportunities for empowerment and self-expression.
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“Some women who do not support porn politically still enjoy watching it, but they feel conflicted about the contradictions between their beliefs and actions,”
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinions_(TV_series)
A British talk program on Channel 4 from the 1980s-1990s focused on the opinions of public figures.
A potential precursor to TED talks?
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- Jul 2023
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Si usted recibe un comentario, Hypothesis le enviará un correo electrónico notificándolo de dicha acción.
Esto es perfecto; el débate que se genera a partir de nuestros comentarios es la mejor forma de interactuar en la academia.
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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length of life is not by a million miles as important as the quality of that life and we will all die of something one day we must focus on quality not quantity of 00:12:55 life
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Luhmanns intent was to create an organic growing system – not to implement Folgezettel.
I have a separate theory here...
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Fast, Sascha. “No, Luhmann Was Not About Folgezettel.” Topical Blog. Zettelkasten Method, October 31, 2015. https://zettelkasten.de/posts/luhmann-folgezettel-truth/.
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I don’t think it is the best choice to realize Luhmann’s principles. Yet it is the best application adapting his techniques I know so far.
Sascha Fast appreciated Lüdecke's ZKN3 application as one of the best for adapting Luhmann's techniques to a digital space, but felt that it could have gone further in realizing Luhmann's principles.
Some of the tension in this debate is that between the affordances of analog (paper) versus digital information storage and tagging.
Paper lacks easy corpus text search while simultaneously requiring additional manual indexing to make up for it. Paper also doesn't have the discovery value of autocomplete. On the opposite end paper forces one to more regularly review physical associative trails through one's past work while digital allows one to skip over some of this review process.
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One piece of clutter was the concept of Folgezettel.
Sascha Fast felt in 2015 that the idea of Folgezettel within a zettelkasten was unnecessary "clutter".
Did he later change his mind after further discussion?
check this for further arguments: https://hypothes.is/a/xzuclLbBEe2Ov4viA3XOkQ
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Update 2020-04-15: The topic re-emerged after a couple of years. There is quite some discussions in the forum. For example: Here, here and here. See this new post from 2020 for an expansion on that topic.
For the folgezettel debate check the following through 2020-04-15: - https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/928/hierarchical-branched-note-taking-and-the-archive-app-is-topography-important - https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/978/is-there-a-benefit-to-luhmann-ids-vs-date-time-ids - https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/976/the-case-for-a-digital-folgezettel - https://zettelkasten.de/posts/understanding-hierarchy-translating-folgezettel/
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Not sure I completely follow the logic of the debate between Sascha and taurusnoises (Bob Doto) here. I'll have to look closer.
Perhaps mapping out the 1-1 distinctions between the digital and the analog here would be helpful. What structures would be needed to make them 1-1?
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fz is less about the tree (though that is important) and more about the UX.
I do like the framing of folgezettel as a benefit with respect to user experience.
There is a lot of mention of the idea of trees within the note taking and zettelkasten space, but we really ought to be looking more closely at other living systems models like rhizomes and things which have a network-like structure.
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Part 1: What Do We Need? Denote as a Zettelkasten, 2023. https://share.tube/w/mu7fMr5RWMqetcZRXutSGF.
It starts and ends with Denote, but has an excellent overview of the folgezettel debate (or should one use Luhmann-esque identifiers within their digital zettelkasten system?)
Some of the tension within the folgezettel debate comes down to those who might prefer more refined evergreen (reusable) notes in many contexts, or those who have potentially shorter notes that fit within a train of thought (folgezettel) which helps to add some of the added context.
The difference is putting in additional up-front work to more heavily decontextualize excerpts and make them reusable in more contexts, which has an uncertain future payoff versus doing a bit less contextualization as the note will speak to it's neighbors as a means of providing some of this context. With respect to reusing a note in a written work, one is likely to remove their notes and their neighbors to provide this context when needed for writing.
(apparently I didn't save this note when I watched it prior to number 2, blech....)
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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So have you developed such a hierarchy of 00:20:37 the things that we're absolutely going to need? Simon Michaux: Yeah. So I started thinking about it. If I have a plan, that's okay. But we've got to put it in the arena, and we've all got to discuss it, rip it apart, and put it back together. So my plan becomes our plan. So I'm putting forward some ideas, but I see this as the start of the conversation, not the actual solution.
!- summary : open, inclusive debate required! - indyweb can be perfect space
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The Gish gallop /ˈɡɪʃ ˈɡæləp/ is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments. In essence, it is prioritizing quantity of one's arguments at the expense of quality of said arguments. The term was coined in 1994 by anthropologist Eugenie Scott, who named it after American creationist Duane Gish and argued that Gish used the technique frequently when challenging the scientific fact of evolution.[1][2] It is similar to another debating method called spreading, in which one person speaks extremely fast in an attempt to cause their opponent to fail to respond to all the arguments that have been raised.
I'd always known this was a thing, but didn't have a word for it.
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zephoria.medium.com zephoria.medium.com
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A lot has changed about our news media ecosystem since 2007. In the United States, it’s hard to overstate how the media is entangled with contemporary partisan politics and ideology. This means that information tends not to flow across partisan divides in coherent ways that enable debate.
Our media and social media systems have been structured along with the people who use them such that debate is stifled because information doesn't flow coherently across the political partisan divide.
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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Trope, trope, trope, strung into a Gish Gallop.
One of the issues we see in the Sunday morning news analysis shows (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) is that there is usually a large amount of context collapse mixed with lack of general knowledge about the topics at hand compounded with large doses of Gish Gallop and F.U.D. (fear, uncertainty, and doubt).
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www.smithsonianmag.com www.smithsonianmag.com
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When it comes to understanding our planet and its future, can novelists reach people in ways that scientists cannot?
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Dolgin, E. (2021). Omicron is supercharging the COVID vaccine booster debate. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03592-2
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Kulldorff, M. (2021, October 12). Covid, lockdown and the retreat of scientific debate | The Spectator. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/covid-lockdown-and-the-retreat-of-scientific-debate
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Mehdi Hasan to share tips on “How to Win Every Argument.” (2021, December 2). Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mehdi-hasan-to-share-tips-on-how-to-win-every-argument/2021/12/02/e15f658a-5374-11ec-83d2-d9dab0e23b7e_story.html
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www.snopes.com www.snopes.com
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What did Franklin himself think about abortions? In 1728 during his early years as a printer, he generated controversy over something he would end up doing himself. According to “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” by Walter Isaacson, he “manufactured” an abortion debate, largely because he wanted to crush a rival, but his own opinions may not have been too strong about it. Franklin wrote a series of anonymous letters for another paper to draw attention away from Samuel Keimer’s paper: The first two pieces were attacks on poor Keimer, who was serializing entries from an encyclopedia. His initial installment included, innocently enough, an entry on abortion. Franklin pounced. Using the pen names “Martha Careful” and “Celia Shortface,” he wrote letters to Bradford’s paper feigning shock and indignation at Keimer’s offense. As Miss Careful threatened, “If he proceeds farther to expose the secrets of our sex in that audacious manner [women would] run the hazard of taking him by the beard in the next place we meet him.” Thus Franklin manufactured the first recorded abortion debate in America, not because he had any strong feelings on the issue, but because he knew it would help sell newspapers.
Benjamin Franklin manufactured the first recorded abortion debate in America to help sell his newspapers and to crush a rival.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Sir Karam Bales ✊ 🇺🇦 [@karamballes]. (2021, July 25). Have wondered about Ladhani for a while. Interesting to note he’s retweeting links to UsForThem and T4recovery https://t.co/PedcJJIr3P [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1419324738694959105
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gidmk.medium.com gidmk.medium.com
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Nerd, G. M.-K. H. (2021, December 22). Of Course Unvaccinated People Should Get Medical Care. Medium. https://gidmk.medium.com/of-course-unvaccinated-people-should-get-medical-care-34b26ae7eaa4
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Health Nerd. (2021, August 29). Fascinating stuff, a whole thread of people saying weird shit about me (and a poem that I’ve said many times was idiotic in hindsight) [Tweet]. @GidMK. https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1431828103416877058
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Brianna Wu. (2021, June 5). MRNA is unbelievably fragile. The enzymes that degrade it are literally everywhere. That’s why they had to develop specialized lipid nanoparticles to deliver it. It would last two seconds in a sewer system. Also, it gets separated from the delivery system after it’s injected. Https://t.co/35dZ6r6UAq [Tweet]. @BriannaWu. https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1400998163968933888
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James Heathers. (2021, October 26). Perish the thought I would be as peremptory as @GidMK. No, I’m going to hector, mock, or annoy those replies, THEN ask for money, THEN block you when I get bored. See, these aren’t rebuttals. No-one’s said anything about the actual work. Nothing. Not a sausage. [Tweet]. @jamesheathers. https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1452980059497762824
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Mullins, M. (2021, November 1). Opinion: The Problem with Preprints. The Scientist Magazine®. https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/opinion-the-problem-with-preprints-69309
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Gregg Gonsalves. (2022, January 30). Once again @DouthatNYT misframes a debate for his own partisan goals. 1/ https://t.co/Hi7r4HcoAl [Tweet]. @gregggonsalves. https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1487772523420954625
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘surprising how the logic of argument around C19 has not updated to the fact that reinfection is a big thing, as are new variants. Delay = a round of infection you never got...’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 13 February 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1483716840316706824
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ReconfigBehSci. (2022, January 20). @timcolbourn @OmicronData I’m sorry but I genuinely do not see how this is a response to what I said about the presuppositions in the ‘delay framing’? This reply is about your views on disease burden, not -as mine is- how choice of terminology implicitly shapes the argument space [Tweet]. @i. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1484191657318879234
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hackmd.io hackmd.io
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Argument quality and fallacies. (n.d.). HackMD. Retrieved January 17, 2022, from https://hackmd.io/@scibehC19vax/argumentquality
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learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com
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It was largely the speakers of Iroquoian languages such as theWendat, or the five Haudenosaunee nations to their south, whoappear to have placed such weight on reasoned debate – evenfinding it a form of pleasurable entertainment in own right. This factalone had major historical repercussions. Because it appears tohave been exactly this form of debate – rational, sceptical, empirical,conversational in tone – which before long came to be identified withthe European Enlightenment as well. And, just like the Jesuits,Enlightenment thinkers and democratic revolutionaries saw it asintrinsically connected with the rejection of arbitrary authority,particularly that which had long been assumed by the clergy.
The forms of rational, skeptical, empirical and conversational forms of debate popularized by the Enlightenment which saw the rejection of arbitrary authority were influenced by the Haudenosaunee nations of Americans.
Interesting to see the reflexive political fallout of this reoccurring with the political right in America beginning in the early 2000s through the 2020s. It's almost as if the Republican party and religious right never experienced the Enlightenment and are still living in the 1700s.
Curious that in modern culture I think of the Jesuits as the embodiment of rationalist, skeptical argumentation and thought now. Apparently they were dramatically transformed since that time.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @SciCommPSU: Today at 4! “COVID-19 Vaccines: Science versus Anti-Science” with @PeterHotez. Presented by @huckinstitutes https://t.co…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 14 January 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1450591196653314051
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Sabina Vohra-Miller. (2022, January 7). The ’with’ or ‘because of’ Covid hospitalization argument is intentionally politicizing data. Https://t.co/oXcCQoFcZw [Tweet]. @SabiVM. https://twitter.com/SabiVM/status/1479591658845052929
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Timothy Caulfield. (2021, December 30). #RobertMalone suspended by #twitter today. Reaction: 1) Great news. He has been spreading harmful #misinformation. (He has NOT contributed to meaningful/constructive scientific debate. His views demonstrably wrong & polarizing.) 2) What took so long? #ScienceUpFirst [Tweet]. @CaulfieldTim. https://twitter.com/CaulfieldTim/status/1476346919890796545
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 2). The current JCVI minutes debate clearly illustrates the problems with Twitter and scientific debate: Meaning glossed, hedges and distinctions left behind, claims about arguments conflated with claims about people, paving the way to ramped up, emotive soundbites and claims. 1/7 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1455458854637117440
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 1). 2/2 from the paper ‘We speculate that the extraordinarily high antibody titers observed in vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections may lead to subsequent long-term protection in those individuals.’ [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1455104597454954497
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- Oct 2021
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, October 27). I must confess I do not understand these arguments. Testing would not cause anxiety if it weren’t discovering lots of cases [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1453323966093873152
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Dance, A. (2021). The shifting sands of ‘gain-of-function’ research. Nature, 598(7882), 554–557. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02903-x
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www.statnews.com www.statnews.com
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Politics derails debate on immunity you get after recovering from Covid-19. (2021, October 19). STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/19/politics-is-derailing-a-crucial-debate-over-the-immunity-you-get-from-recovering-from-covid-19/
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- Sep 2021
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twitter.com twitter.com
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People with weak immune systems may need COVID booster shots: Infectious disease expert. (n.d.). Fox Business. Retrieved 17 September 2021, from http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6272871561001/
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nymag.com nymag.com
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If you have always wanted to know what it feels like to get stuck in a nonconsensual, one-way conversation with a libertarian high-school debate captain who’s more in love with his own brain than you will ever be with anyone or anything, Greenwald has just done you a great service. (I can already hear the debate captain shouting “point of personal privilege,” so I’ll try to steer clear of ad hominem from here on out.)
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www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk
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Editor, L. J., Health. (2021, August 22). Hundreds of doctors sign open letter to PM: Need debate on “flawed covid guesses.” Express.Co.Uk. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1480245/coronavirus-news-doctors-sign-letter-boris-johnson
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- Aug 2021
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Pilditch, T. (2021). Why scientific evidence is no longer enough in public debate [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/98v2n
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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‘Analysis | People Are More Anti-Vaccine If They Get Their Covid News from Facebook than from Fox News, Data Shows’. Washington Post. Accessed 4 August 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/27/people-are-more-anti-vaccine-if-they-get-their-covid-19-news-facebook-rather-than-fox-news-new-data-shows/.
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thebulletin.org thebulletin.org
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We’ve analyzed thousands of COVID-19 misinformation narratives. Here are six regional takeaways—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://thebulletin.org/2021/06/weve-analyzed-thousands-of-covid-19-misinformation-narratives-here-are-six-regional-takeaways/
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The incontestable principle of inclusion drove the changes, which smuggled in more threatening features that have come to characterize identity politics and social justice: monolithic group thought, hostility to open debate, and a taste for moral coercion.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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CovidCallOut on Twitter: “Vaccines work or they don’t…. If they do…. Opening up… let them do there job… If they don’t…. You have to return to normality at some stage… Otherwise then what… restrictions on who you see, what you do and where you go until when…. Forever.. It’s one or the other…” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2021, from https://twitter.com/Covid_CallOut/status/1416078635266609152
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- Jun 2021
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Maxmen, A. (2021). Divisive COVID ‘lab leak’ debate prompts dire warnings from researchers. Nature, 594(7861), 15–16. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01383-3
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- May 2021
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science.sciencemag.org science.sciencemag.org
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García-Fiñana, M., & Buchan, I. E. (2021). Rapid antigen testing in COVID-19 responses. Science, 372(6542), 571–572. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi6680
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Robert Saunders on Twitter. (2020). Twitter. Retrieved 1 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1326802784168124416
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Ira, still wearing a mask, Hyman. (2020, November 26). @SciBeh @Quayle @STWorg @jayvanbavel @UlliEcker @philipplenz6 @AnaSKozyreva @johnfocook Some might argue the moral dilemma is between choosing what is seen as good for society (limiting spread of disinformation that harms people) and allowing people freedom of choice to say and see what they want. I’m on the side of making good for society decisions. [Tweet]. @ira_hyman. https://twitter.com/ira_hyman/status/1331992594130235393
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘@timcolbourn alongside dubious relationships with parties that in other contexts would require declarations of interest or that have independent hallmarks of being bad faith actors’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 3 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1351197722104258560
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 19 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1356525692700291072
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- Apr 2021
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Broniatowski, D. A., Jamison, A. M., Qi, S., AlKulaib, L., Chen, T., Benton, A., Quinn, S. C., & Dredze, M. (2018). Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate. American Journal of Public Health, 108(10), 1378–1384. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567
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github.com github.com
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Please do not directly email any Sidekiq committers with questions or problems. A community is best served when discussions are held in public.
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www.thelancet.com www.thelancet.com
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Moros, María José Sierra, Susana Monge, Berta Suarez Rodríguez, Lucía García San Miguel, and Fernando Simón Soria. ‘COVID-19 in Spain: View from the Eye of the Storm’. The Lancet Public Health 6, no. 1 (1 January 2021): e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30286-3.
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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That said, I wish more people would talk both sides. Yes, every dependency has a cost. BUT the alternatives aren't cost free either. For all the ranting against micropackages, I'm not seeing a good pro/con discussion.
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- Feb 2021
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www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
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Humphrys, J. (2021, January 22). JOHN HUMPHRYS: Let’s not kid ourselves - NHS puts price on ALL lives. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9178171/JOHN-HUMPHRYS-Lets-not-kid-NHS-puts-price-lives.html
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github.com github.com
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Here's the last issue where source maps were discussed before the beta release.
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trailblazer.to trailblazer.to
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So, whenever you hear the medieval argument “Trailblazer is just a nasty DSL!”, forgive your opponent, you now know better. The entire framework is based on small, clean Ruby structures that can be executed programmatically.
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unix.stackexchange.com unix.stackexchange.com
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so again, what, precisely, is false? Do you deny that a Control+C goes to the foreground process group?
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Experts unconvinced by Lord Sumption’s lockdown ethics. (2021, January 19). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/jan/19/less-valuable-experts-unconvinced-by-lord-sumptions-lockdown-ethics
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- Dec 2020
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor (2020) Here you go, debunking debunked - though I'm not wasting any more of my time on this twaddle! Twitter. Retrieved from: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1306270671887101954
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hacks.mozilla.org hacks.mozilla.org
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The exact form of the platform is yet to be finalized, and we want to involve you, the community, in helping to provide ideas and test the new contribution workflow!
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- Nov 2020
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github.com github.com
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In Rust, we use the "No New Rationale" rule, which says that the decision to merge (or not merge) an RFC is based only on rationale that was presented and debated in public. This avoids accidents where the community feels blindsided by a decision.
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I'd like to go with an RFC-based governance model (similar to Rust, Ember or Swift) that looks something like this: new features go through a public RFC that describes the motivation for the change, a detailed implementation description, a description on how to document or teach the change (for kpm, that would roughly be focused around how it affected the usual workflows), any drawbacks or alternatives, and any open questions that should be addressed before merging. the change is discussed until all of the relevant arguments have been debated and the arguments are starting to become repetitive (they "reach a steady state") the RFC goes into "final comment period", allowing people who weren't paying close attention to every proposal to have a chance to weigh in with new arguments. assuming no new arguments are presented, the RFC is merged by consensus of the core team and the feature is implemented. All changes, regardless of their source, go through this process, giving active community members who aren't on the core team an opportunity to participate directly in the future direction of the project. (both because of proposals they submit and ones from the core team that they contribute to)
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- soliciting feedback
- welcoming feedback
- have discussion/feedback/debate in public (transparency)
- open-source projects: allowing community (who are not on core team) to influence/affect/steer the direction of the project
- change proposal workflow: RFCs
- allowing sufficient time for discussion/feedback/debate before a final decision is made
- build concensus
- attracting contributors
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- Oct 2020
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twitter.com twitter.com
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David Rothschild on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved October 17, 2020, from https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/status/1316429651988877312
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medium.com medium.com
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Feldman, J. (2020, October 11). The “herd immunity strategy” isn’t part of a scientific debate about COVID-19. Medium. https://medium.com/@jmfeldman/the-herd-immunity-strategy-isnt-part-of-a-scientific-debate-about-covid-19-abddf6bc7c13
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tech.ebayinc.com tech.ebayinc.com
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And as an aside, I’m definitely in favor of more debates than sessions in future conferences, since we actually learn more by hearing multiple viewpoints.
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- Aug 2020
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twitter.com twitter.com
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James O’Brien on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved August 30, 2020, from https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1299248453416083456
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Barnes, B. (2020, July 8). Disney World Draws Excitement and Incredulity as Reopening Nears. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/business/coronavirus-disney-world-reopening.html
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- Jul 2020
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www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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Ecker, U. K. H., Butler, L. H., Cook, J., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Lewandowsky, S. (2020). Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101464
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critical-analysis.org critical-analysis.org
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Project background – Critical Analysis Project. (n.d.). Retrieved July 10, 2020, from http://critical-analysis.org/project-background/
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arg-tech.org arg-tech.org
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Bex, F., Lawrence. J., Snaith. M., Reed. C., (2013) implementing the Argument Web. Communications of the ACM. (56). (10). Retrieved from chrome-extension://bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=http%3A%2F%2Farg-tech.org%2Fpeople%2Fchris%2Fpublications%2F2013%2FbexCACM.pdf
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- Jun 2020
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Un planteamiento semejante impulsa a tener en cuenta la posibilidad de consecuencias imprevistas, a hacer explí-citos los aspectos normativos que se esconden en las decisiones técnicas, a reconocer la necesidad de puntos de vista plurales y aprendizaje colectivo
Esta idea está relacionada con la referencia a la novela Hyperión, la inteligencia artificial que determinó que para seguir evolucionando necesitaba un par que lo confrontara en debate.
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blogs.bmj.com blogs.bmj.com
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Sebastian Walsh: We are asking the wrong questions about easing lockdown. (2020, June 2). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/02/sebastian-walsh-we-are-asking-the-wrong-questions-about-easing-lockdown/
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- May 2020
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www.nyteknik.se www.nyteknik.se
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Forskare: ”Se upp med komplexa coronamodeller – de kan överträffa verkligheten”. (2020 April 24). Ny Teknik. https://www.nyteknik.se/opinion/forskare-se-upp-med-komplexa-coronamodeller-de-kan-overtraffa-verkligheten-6994339
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Social Media & Well-being. (n.d.). Retrieved May 13, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSV8GT7y3_E&feature=youtu.be
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- Jan 2019
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Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence
This one is a pretty bold statement to make, in general.
Mike Johansson, at Rochester Institute of Technology, makes the case that curiosity is the key to enabling both Creative and Critical Thinking for better problem solving, in general.
What are some of your ideas?
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Although IQ is hard to coach, EQ and CQ can be developed.
This one is an interesting phrasing -- there's a lot of debate going on about IQ being an outdated metric already.
For example, N. Taleb is very vocal that IQ simply does not make sense in today's society.
What do you think? Is IQ overrated?
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- Apr 2018
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wisc.pb.unizin.org wisc.pb.unizin.org
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In contemporary debates, gun control advocates often respond to assertion of second amendment individual rights to gun ownership by emphasizing the amendment’s reference to a “well regulated militia.”
Hopefully this suggestion will be accepted in the spirit it is offered (gently!) and if acted upon, would not lengthen the intro too much, but rather help clarify the "anticipatory set" of the reading. Although the first sentence is quite accurate, as someone who has been doing extensive reading on the 2nd Amendment lately, I had to re - read this to be sure I understood the assertion. Bouncing back & forth from references to 1) gun control advocates 2) individual rights to gun ownership and back to 3) reference to a well regulated militia is likely to confuse H.S. readers who may have little interest or grasp of the ideas.
Suggest: First of all - since it is so brief, it might be useful to actually provide the complete wording of Amendment Two. (Perhaps above the green "About this text" box.)
Secondly - a note suggesting that gun control advocates tend to focus upon the "militia" clause while gun owner rights advocates often prefer to focus on the second clause re: right to own.
Thirdly - a (brief) suggestion that the two sides do not even agree upon what constitutes a "militia" and that the context and historical evidence for each side's arguments are lengthy and complex.
The second sentence beginning " In the excerpt below, is critical to help set the context of the reading, however, there seems to be room to minimize the verbiage without losing meaning.
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gretchenrubin.com gretchenrubin.com
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A person with oppositional conversational style is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.
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- Oct 2016
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Clinton says Trump has called the election ‘rigged’, while Trump says he won’t necessarily accept the election results All available evidence shows that in-person voter fraud is exceedingly rare: you are more likely to be struck by lightning in the next year (a one in 1,042,000 chance, according to Noaa) than to find a case of voter fraud by impersonation (31 possible cases in more than a billion ballots cast from 2000 to 2014, according to a study by Loyola Law School). The man who cried rigged: the problem with Trump’s election claims Whenever Donald Trump is cornered, he accuses his opponents of fighting dirty. This time, he might be right to say there’s voter fraud – but for the wrong reasons Read more Voter fraud would have to happen on an enormous scale to sway elections, because the electoral college system decentralizes authority: each of the 50 states has its own rules and local officials, not federal ones, run the polls and count the ballots. This complexity makes the notion of a “rigged” national election, at least in the US, logistically daunting to the point of practical impossibility. Thirty-one states have Republican governors, including the swing states of Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Nevada and Ohio; Pennsylvania only elected a Democratic governor in 2015. Polls show Trump losing even in some states where governors have strongly supported him. In Maine, for instance, the Real Clear Politics average shows him down five points. About 75% of the ballots cast in federal elections have paper backups, and most electronic voting machines are not connected to the internet – though they have other flaws and may be vulnerable to tampering. But voter fraud to swing a major election, whether by tampering, buying votes or official wrongdoing, would quickly attract attention by its necessarily large scale. AdvertisementIf Trump loses the presidential election, it will be because American voters do not want him in the White House, not because of a conspiracy involving Republicans and Democrats alike at state and city levels around the nation – a conspiracy for which Trump has provided no evidence.
Analysis of Trump's claim that the election is rigged.
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www.jstor.org.proxyau.wrlc.org www.jstor.org.proxyau.wrlc.org
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his has certainly been the tendency in rhetoric and composition, whose primary debate has been between two opposing methods for simplifying the complexity of writ ing.
On-going debate
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- Apr 2016
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blog.jonudell.net blog.jonudell.net
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Jon Udell on productive social discourse.
changeable minds<br> What’s something you believed deeply, for a long time, and then changed your mind about?
David Gray's Liminal Thinking points out that we all have beliefs that are built on hidden foundations. We need to carefully examine our own beliefs and their origins. And we need to avoid judgment as we consider the beliefs of others and their origins.
Wael Ghonim asks us to design social media that encourages civility, thoughtfulness, and open minds rather than self-promotion, click-bait, and echo chambers.
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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Twitter is an "argument machine"
Maybe annotation could put "tweet" sized things into context and thereby avoid the "argument machine."
Rashly assuming anyone will actually take time to read the context and the comment...
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- Feb 2014
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s3.amazonaws.com s3.amazonaws.com
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For instance, if a certain individual owns the idea for airplanes, there are always ideas for gliders, helicopters, and devices yet unknown for other individuals to own. On the other hand, each idea is unique, so the taking of any idea as private property leaves none of that idea for others (Locke, 1690, Chap. V, Sect. 27). The first perspective would assert that there are always other ideas, while the second perspective would assert that ideas build upon each other, and that just because ideas are similar in one respect does not mean they are similar in other respects. Under the first perspective, the taking of intelle ctual property passes the Lockean Proviso, and under the second perspective, it fails.
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This is understatement to be sure, but the debate has been principally between two theories: a utilitarian policy theory, and a rights - based , non - utilitarian property theory (Long, 1995, n.pag.) .
The debate in intellectual property law has centered around utilitarian policy theory and a rights-based non-utilitarian property theory.
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- Jan 2014
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www.cbc.radio-canada.ca www.cbc.radio-canada.ca
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est bien présente
Mais qu'est-ce que ça veut dire, au juste?
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- Dec 2013
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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But even those accomplishments could be thwarted by a basic political calculation: Many Republicans believe they are getting such good traction from their attacks on President Obama’s stumbling health care law that they feel less compelled to produce results. Any public fight over legislative compromises could take away from the focus Republicans have kept on the health care law.
Interesting
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- Sep 2013
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.netGorgias2
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I am one of those who are very willing to be refuted if I say anything which is not true, and very willing to refute any one else who says what is not true, and quite as ready to be refuted as to refute; for I hold that this is the greater gain of the two, just as the gain is greater of being cured of a very great evil than of curing another. For I imagine that there is no evil which a man can endure so great as an erroneous opinion about the matters of which we are speaking; and if you claim to be one of my sort, let us have the discussion out, but if you would rather have done, no matter;—let us make an end of it.
Socrates is willing to accept when he is wrong, he just wants to understand what Gorgias is saying. He thinks Gorgias is inconsistent and wants clarity.
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SOCRATES: And will you continue to ask and answer questions, Gorgias, as we are at present doing, and reserve for another occasion the longer mode of speech which Polus was attempting? Will you keep your promise, and answer shortly the questions which are asked of you?
What might Socrates be doing here?
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