Libre
@lotalibre.bsky.social
Making a haiku,
Doubting my syllable count,
Such a silly thing.
Doubting my syllable count,
Such a silly thing.
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Making a haiku,
Doubting my syllable count,
Such a silly thing.
Doubting my syllable count,
Such a silly thing.
Doing needs knowledge.
And yet knowledge needs doing.
Time to start doing.
And yet knowledge needs doing.
Time to start doing.
September 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Doing needs knowledge.
And yet knowledge needs doing.
Time to start doing.
And yet knowledge needs doing.
Time to start doing.
Data collected.
Theories formed into models.
The aim, to find truth.
Theories formed into models.
The aim, to find truth.
September 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Data collected.
Theories formed into models.
The aim, to find truth.
Theories formed into models.
The aim, to find truth.
What epistemic method does your field use to demarcate true theories from false ones?
I’m guessing some will be similar to the hard sciences, with reliance on error calculations, but I suspect most fields are essentially Kuhnian and rely on ‘consensus’ or the intuition of ‘leaders’ in the field.
I’m guessing some will be similar to the hard sciences, with reliance on error calculations, but I suspect most fields are essentially Kuhnian and rely on ‘consensus’ or the intuition of ‘leaders’ in the field.
August 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What epistemic method does your field use to demarcate true theories from false ones?
I’m guessing some will be similar to the hard sciences, with reliance on error calculations, but I suspect most fields are essentially Kuhnian and rely on ‘consensus’ or the intuition of ‘leaders’ in the field.
I’m guessing some will be similar to the hard sciences, with reliance on error calculations, but I suspect most fields are essentially Kuhnian and rely on ‘consensus’ or the intuition of ‘leaders’ in the field.
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If the washer/dryer were invented today:
This will free millions from backbreaking domestic labor! Think of the time gains for education, civic life, creative pursuits or simply rest.
The laundry industry will thrive! We’ll need technicians, factories, new soaps, supply chains. Everyone wins!
This will free millions from backbreaking domestic labor! Think of the time gains for education, civic life, creative pursuits or simply rest.
The laundry industry will thrive! We’ll need technicians, factories, new soaps, supply chains. Everyone wins!
July 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If the washer/dryer were invented today:
This will free millions from backbreaking domestic labor! Think of the time gains for education, civic life, creative pursuits or simply rest.
The laundry industry will thrive! We’ll need technicians, factories, new soaps, supply chains. Everyone wins!
This will free millions from backbreaking domestic labor! Think of the time gains for education, civic life, creative pursuits or simply rest.
The laundry industry will thrive! We’ll need technicians, factories, new soaps, supply chains. Everyone wins!
Excellent strategy: don’t beg incumbent institutions to change, just make their failures obvious.
Friends, I have news.
It is very good news.
You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.
jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...
It is very good news.
You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.
jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...
Introducing the Medical Evidence Project
And the quest to make less dead people
jamesclaims.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Excellent strategy: don’t beg incumbent institutions to change, just make their failures obvious.
The most important thing to remember as one listens to the buzz of the meta-science hive after Trumps nonsensical Science EO:
Putting literally all the arguments aside, no one should think the current US gov will improve any of this.
But yeah, I got your point.
But yeah, I got your point.
May 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The most important thing to remember as one listens to the buzz of the meta-science hive after Trumps nonsensical Science EO:
Peer review (the goalkeeper also has a peg leg and an eye patch.
Not sure I approve of the analogy, but I would definitely conclude a football team doesn't need a goalkeeper if he spent most of his time arguing with the players, just watched the ball get in more often than not, and demanded a 6-12 months pause every time he does something
May 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Peer review (the goalkeeper also has a peg leg and an eye patch.
Can one use an epistemic system to judge the epistemic value of itself? A brainstorm into the void of my Bluesky alt…
March 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Can one use an epistemic system to judge the epistemic value of itself? A brainstorm into the void of my Bluesky alt…
Mathematics and Philosophy underly every field of human knowledge. Deepening your understanding of either will deepen your understanding of any higher-level knowledge. They are the foundation, so make sure they’re deep enough to hold weight.
February 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Mathematics and Philosophy underly every field of human knowledge. Deepening your understanding of either will deepen your understanding of any higher-level knowledge. They are the foundation, so make sure they’re deep enough to hold weight.
Great paper containing a critique of theory using Lakatosian epistemology. Solid epistemology is the way out of our current scientific malaise.
Reread @lennertcoenen.bsky.social's great paper "lost in a maze".
Major takeaway: Hedges ("media effects occur only given a, b, c") should not be considered theoretical progress per se, but rather as part of a protective belt around the field's core hypothesis "Media effects exist".
Major takeaway: Hedges ("media effects occur only given a, b, c") should not be considered theoretical progress per se, but rather as part of a protective belt around the field's core hypothesis "Media effects exist".
January 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Great paper containing a critique of theory using Lakatosian epistemology. Solid epistemology is the way out of our current scientific malaise.