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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p>[2/3] It's not showing how remote viewing can explain <a href="https://me.dm/tags/UFOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UFOs</span></a>. It's not showing remote viewing at all, so far.</p><p>Post <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Newton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newton</span></a>, <a href="https://me.dm/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://me.dm/tags/philosophical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophical</span></a> thought require <a href="https://me.dm/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> &amp; other <a href="https://me.dm/tags/technologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technologies</span></a> that extend our <a href="https://me.dm/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> senses &amp; capabilities — <a href="https://me.dm/tags/radioastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioastronomy</span></a> for example. These methods reach beyond our <a href="https://me.dm/tags/biases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biases</span></a>, <a href="https://me.dm/tags/intuitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intuitions</span></a> &amp; other limitations. </p><p>The show asks us to be <a href="https://me.dm/tags/skeptical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skeptical</span></a> of official agendas, but then clouds its own <a href="https://me.dm/tags/agenda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agenda</span></a>. It knows a few things, but does it reveal hard <a href="https://me.dm/tags/truths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>truths</span></a> about <a href="https://me.dm/tags/UFOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UFOs</span></a>?</p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>Distinguishing the Genuinely <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rational</span></a> From the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Irrational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Irrational</span></a>; <br>How our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intuitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intuitions</span></a> about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> can lead us astray. </p><p><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rationality-judgment-and-decision-making/202409/distinguishing-the-genuinely-rational-from-the" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ra</span><span class="invisible">tionality-judgment-and-decision-making/202409/distinguishing-the-genuinely-rational-from-the</span></a></p>
Kent Pitman<p>I'm wrongly relieved,<br>More each day crops haven't failed.<br>Not harvest time yet.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShortPoem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallPoem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FoodInsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodInsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CropFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CropFailure</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CropHarvesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CropHarvesting</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/harvest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harvest</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>famine</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/intuitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intuitions</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FoodSupply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodSupply</span></a></p>
Gregory B Sadler<p>We're now moving into the first part of Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics with this Sadler's Lectures podcast episode looking at what he means by a priori intuitions and what they have to do with mathematics </p><p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/immanuel-kant-prolegomena-a-priori-intuitions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/</span><span class="invisible">immanuel-kant-prolegomena-a-priori-intuitions</span></a><br><a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Kant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kant</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Intuitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intuitions</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphysics</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>There's a <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/debate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debate</span></a> in <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/ExperimentalPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalPhilosophy</span></a> (<a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/xPhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xPhi</span></a>) about whether <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/intuitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intuitions</span></a> about philosophical thought experiments are "stable" (vs. manipulable).</p><p>Some (e.g., <span class="h-card"><a href="https://zirk.us/@xphilosophy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>xphilosophy</span></a></span>) seem convinced of stability—e.g., because some replications of instability results and new experiments find <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/pValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pValues</span></a> &gt; 0.05.</p><p>Alexander &amp; Weinberg express a different view (<a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/ALEPMP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">philpapers.org/rec/ALEPMP</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>). I agree that the debate needs parties to agree on a smallest effect size of interest.</p><p>Page images attached.</p>
New Submissions to TMLR<p>Machine Explanations and Human Understanding</p><p><a href="https://openreview.net/forum?id=y4CGF1A8VG" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openreview.net/forum?id=y4CGF1</span><span class="invisible">A8VG</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/intuitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intuitions</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/explanations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>explanations</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/intuition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intuition</span></a></p>