froghorse
@froghorse@lemm.ee
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
Science is a method for getting knowledge. We have other methods for getting knowledge too. All have their pros and cons.
An advantage of science is that it delivers knowledge of high quality.
An advantage of authority is that it is convenient.
An advantage of personal experience is that it is not limited to abstraction.
There are other advantages, no doubt. And other methods.
The subject under discussion is called Epistemology. The philosophy of knowledge.
It isn’t as scary as it sounds.
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
Because I want alternative takes on the subject. Because I want to discuss it. Because the subject interests me. That’s what big brains do.
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
And yet you offer no actual argument. Hmmm.
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
Nice :)
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
Really?
Science is better than the alternative because it delivers higher quality models. But that’s just my opinion.
Alternatives to science are tradition, consensus, authority, personal experience. But there might be others.
There you go Einstein.
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
I’m talking about conversation here on social media. Where anything that strays too far from the mainstream (where adults are often inclined to wander) is labelled trollish.
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
Oh hello mr “I really like science but I don’t actually know diddly about science”.
- Comment on Reddit is a shithole 1 year ago:
Yes, you will. Maybe the mod is dumb. Maybe the mod is simply on another page. Either way it seems statistically inevitable.
I think that no body of rules will protect us.
Ask the wrong question, offer the wrong opinion, and they’ll call you a troll.
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
But who babysits the babysitter?
- Comment on How do we have an adult conversation when the children are in charge? 1 year ago:
Ahhh. I believe that technique was employed in the middle ages when the children were burning adults at the stake. Frame your forbidden discourse in allegorical terms. Homunculi and philosopher’s stones.
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- Comment on Reddit is a shithole 1 year ago:
Lemmy is getting to be a bit of a shithole too. Brainless, dictatorial moderators censor us without notice or warning here too.
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
If we go with “science is a method for getting knowledge” then
Authority, consensus, tradition, personal experience. Those are some alternatives to science.
Can you add to that list?
Be succinct.
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
For a fellow with such strong opinions about the subject you certainly don’t know your subject. Think on that.
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
Ok, so we have observation.
We might footnote that observation, offer how we made that observation. I’m not sure what the official term for such would be.
And, if some of our friends are in the same business, we can compare notes. That would also be implied.
I suppose there’s authority, consensus and tradition too. Not as good as science but there is an attraction there.
Any more?
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
So science is something we use for getting us knowledge about the universe?
We could call it a tool then. Right?
And it’s better because it delivers higher quality knowledge?
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
Possibly. Or maybe it’s you.
You could try just answering the question.
What exactly does science do?
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
Science gets us high-quality knowledge. Or at least that’s my personal take. I was hoping for a second opinion. But ok.
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
Better for what, exactly?
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
Really. What does science do, exactly?
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
Or, to put it plainly.
Science is a method for getting knowledge. Knowledge of remarkable quality.
It’s key component is a strong reference to observation. IE What you saw, how you saw it, and what your friends saw when they did it too.
So what are other ways of getting knowledge?
What are their pros and cons?
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
Ok, I’ll put it another way.
What does science do?
What is another way to do that?
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
Better for what, exactly?
- Comment on Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?) 1 year ago:
You could call science a method for crafting knowledge.
A method that insists upon a strong reference to observation.
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- Comment on Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds 1 year ago:
Studies, reports and beloved authorities.
Doesn’t anybody look with their own eyes and think with their own brain?
- Comment on How do you call a word that is so rudimentary that it can't be defined without being redundant? 1 year ago:
Maybe onomatopoeia. The word for the “crack” sound is “crack”.
- Comment on Do you feel manipulated? By whom (or by what)? 1 year ago:
I think that intent is a key point here. Maybe respect too.
I mean you could say that I influence my friend merely by being in his presence. But that’s quite different from trying to sell him something.
- Comment on Do you feel manipulated? By whom (or by what)? 1 year ago:
Sure. All the time. By advertising. Commercial is bad. Political seems to be the crassest. The bigger politicians seem to speak only to manipulate, which I find quite offensive.
It’s a kind of mental violence. Terribly socially unhealthy. Future generations will be appalled.
- Comment on Is it possible to influence your dreams the next night? 1 year ago:
Vipassana meditation makes me more likely to lucid dream.
Intense intellectual activity, like reading a book for a couple hours, makes me less likely to lucid dream.