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Showing posts with label superstition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label superstition. Show all posts
Friday, 17 November 2023
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Monday, 26 April 2021
Friday, 23 April 2021
Foreign Influence Campaigns
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Overcoming Foreign Influence in Social Media with Amy Zegart | Policy Ed > .Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, here: https://www.hoover.org/research/spies....
“Why Cyber Is Different,” https://www.policyed.org/intellection....
“How Cyber Attacks Threaten Our Security” https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... “Crowdsourcing and the Mobs,” https://www.hoover.org/research/crowd....
“Threats Never Sleep,” https://www.hoover.org/research/threa... .
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Post-Modernist Dismissal of Information
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24-5-25 Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained - Quillette > .⇑ Warning: poor sound quality, irritating muzak (better to read the original)
Jacques Derrida w
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2020 Myth of a Free Press: Media Bias Explained - TomN > .Project MKUltra: The CIA's Attempt at Psychedelic Mind Control - xplrd > .
What the Theory? - TomN >> .How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained areo
27/03/2017 17 minute read Helen Pluckrose
27/03/2017 17 minute read Helen Pluckrose
"Our current crisis is not one of Left versus Right but of consistency, reason, humility and universal liberalism versus inconsistency, irrationalism, zealous certainty and tribal authoritarianism. The future of freedom, equality and justice looks equally bleak whether the postmodern Left or the post-truth Right wins this current war. Those of us who value liberal democracy and the fruits of the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution and modernity itself must provide a better option." – Helen Pluckrose
Shorter version:
https://quillette.com/2024/05/07/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-foucault-lyotard-derrida/
https://quillette.com/2024/05/07/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-foucault-lyotard-derrida/
Sunday, 10 January 2021
Stupidity - Functional Underperformance
2010 Danger of science denial | Michael Specter > .
24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
DISinformation Explosion - Alētheiai >> .
DISinformation, Fakery - Fallax >> .
Unforseen Consequences - Fallax >> .
Unforseen Consequences - Fallax >> .
Truth-Telling >> .
Why some of the smartest [and most of the slower] people can be so very stupid:
In at least some cases, intelligence actively abets stupidity by allowing pernicious rationalisation.
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"What exactly is stupidity? How does it relate to morality: can you be morally good and stupid, for example? How does it relate to vice: is stupidity a kind of prejudice, perhaps? And why is it so domain-specific: why are people often stupid in one area and insightful in another?
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Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.
-Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.
In at least some cases, intelligence actively abets stupidity by allowing pernicious rationalisation.
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Stupidity will often arise when an outdated conceptual framework is forced into service, mangling the user’s grip on some new phenomenon. It is important to distinguish this from mere error. We make mistakes for all kinds of reasons. Stupidity is rather one specific and stubborn cause of error."
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Stupidity is also compatible with a kind of misguided innovation such as the [attempted imposition or] overly optimistic importation of conceptual tools from a very different place....
"Stupidity has two features that make it particularly dangerous when compared with other vices. First, unlike character flaws, stupidity [as used by the author] is primarily a property of groups or traditions, not individuals: after all, we get most of our concepts, our mental tools, from the society we are raised in. Once stupidity [such as religion] has taken hold of a group or society, it is thus particularly hard to eradicate – inventing, distributing and normalising new concepts is tough work.-
Dumbness alone is rarely the driving threat: at the head of almost every dumb movement, you will find the stupid in charge.
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Dumbness alone is rarely the driving threat: at the head of almost every dumb movement, you will find the stupid in charge.
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Second, stupidity begets more stupidity due to a profound ambiguity in its nature. If stupidity is a matter of the wrong tools for the job, whether an action is stupid will depend on what the job is; just as a hammer is perfect for some tasks and wrong for others. Take politics, where stupidity is particularly catching: a stupid slogan [MAGA, "Lock Her Up"] chimes with a stupid voter, it mirrors the way they see the world. The result is that stupidity can, ironically, be extremely effective in the right [a favorable] environment: a kind of incapacity is in effect being selected for. It is vital to separate this point from familiar and condescending claims about how dumb or uneducated the ‘other side’ are: stupidity is compatible with high educational achievement, and it is more the property of a political culture than of the individuals in it, needing to be tackled at that level."
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Monday, 23 November 2020
Fire & Brimstone
Fire and Brimstone: A Giant Space Rock Demolished an Ancient Middle Eastern City and Everyone in It:
About 3,600 years ago [~1,650 BCE] a giant space rock, travelling at about 38,000 mph (61,000 kph), demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city, now called Tall el-Hammam, killing everyone in it. Accounts of the disaster probably generated the Biblical myth of Sodom, which describes the devastation of an urban center near the Dead Sea – stones and fire fell from the sky, more than one city was destroyed, thick smoke rose from the fires and city inhabitants were killed.
The rock exploded in a massive fireball about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above the ground – a blast around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Air temperatures would have rapidly risen above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius). Clothing and wood burst into flames. Swords, spears, mudbricks, and pottery melted.
At the site, scientists found finely fractured sand grains called shocked quartz that only form at 725,000 pounds per square inch of pressure (5 gigapascals) – imagine six 68-ton Abrams military tanks stacked on your thumb.
The destruction layer also contains tiny diamonoids, as hard as diamonds, each smaller than a flu virus. Wood and plants were turned into this diamond-like material by the fireball’s high pressures and temperatures.
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea nature .
The rock exploded in a massive fireball about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above the ground – a blast around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Air temperatures would have rapidly risen above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius). Clothing and wood burst into flames. Swords, spears, mudbricks, and pottery melted.
Seconds later, a massive shockwave smashed into the city. Moving at about 740 mph (1,200 kph), it was more powerful than the worst tornado ever recorded. The deadly winds ripped through the city, demolishing every building. They sheared off the top 40 feet (12 m) of the 4-story palace and blew the jumbled debris into the next valley. None of the 8,000 people or any animals within the city survived – bodies torn apart and bones blasted into small fragments.
About a minute later, 14 miles (22 km) to the west of Tall el-Hammam, winds from the blast hit the biblical city of Jericho. Jericho’s walls came tumbling down and the city burned to the ground.
About a minute later, 14 miles (22 km) to the west of Tall el-Hammam, winds from the blast hit the biblical city of Jericho. Jericho’s walls came tumbling down and the city burned to the ground.
[Needless to say, religious nutters will attribute this natural phenomenon to "God" – punishment for activities of which they disapprove.]
The destruction layer also contains tiny diamonoids, as hard as diamonds, each smaller than a flu virus. Wood and plants were turned into this diamond-like material by the fireball’s high pressures and temperatures.
Friday, 13 November 2020
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Superstition vs Rationality
Religious beliefs can't all be right. Religious beliefs can all be wrong ...
Divisive Inventions - anffyddiaeth >> .
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23-11-3 Growing Threat Of Christian Nationalism - Second > .
20-2-12 BuyBull prophecy, DJT's Middle East fakery > .
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Why The Credulous Believe in Inventions > .Divisive Inventions - anffyddiaeth >> .
Friday, 23 October 2020
Frightened Racist Insurrectionists
Jan. 6 Insurrectionists: Startling Findings | Amanpour and Company > .
Ronan Farrow: Who Were the Rioters on Jan. 6th? | Amanpour and Company > .
A new study on the January 6 Capitol insurrection finds that of the nearly 400 rioters arrested or charged, 93% are white and 86% are male. [Mostly xenophobic, employed, middle-aged tRUMPsuckers from counties where Biden won = paranoid fear of "the Great Replacement". 45% are CEOs, business owners, doctors, lawyers, accountants, mid-level managers, a state department official. 7% are unemployed. Only 3% (leading from the front and coordinating) belong to notorious ultra-wrong militias, several are ex-military.] Michel Martin speaks to the study’s principal investigator, Professor Robert Pape, to discuss these findings and some surprising revelations about the attackers and their motives.
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Proselytizing Authoritarian Pseudo-Christians
Я How [American] Conservatives Co-Opted Christianity - 2nd Thought > .
"One of the reasons some modern Christians have such difficulty understanding the teachings of Jesus is that they rip these teachings out of their own, original context and pretend they were delivered just recently, somewhere in North America." ~ Bart D. Ehrman .
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