@malthusjohn
Philosophy & History of Science, Complex Systems, Knowledge Management. Networks, Harmony, Co-Evolution, Autopoiesis, Neurodiversity ♾️ AuDhD. Ecology, Digital Revolution ~> Information Paradigm. Theorist, .. wait!- come back, there's more.. 🕺🎶🍞📸🤡
Our @science.org paper is officially out, and we're featured on the COVER! 🌟🔭🧪
My postdoc Justin Kader led this deep dive into VV 340a, revealing how a precessing jet from a supermassive black hole drives massive gas outflows.
It’s been a journey; go Team! 🥹🥂
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AI makes continuous reproducibility and robustness testing trivial. What happens to science under new levels of scrutiny and stress-testing by default?
Some thoughts on how this could play out, informed by watching open science play out over the last decade.
*PS - they got the job!
These 3 siblings showed up to the casting of the remake of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Can you figure out which is which?
I enjoyed putting together this article for @iai.tv
#philosophy #philsci
Political donations = corruption.
Super-rich buy influence and power.
Parties reward them - organize threatening issues off the agenda, provide tax perks to the rich, crony contracts, VIP lanes, honours.
Can't have democracy without banning political donations.
Standard CEO privilege, multiplied by a life that started with a silver spoon in his mouth, divided by stupidity & dementia.
"oops!"
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How do you get your already obesely inflated Defense Budget to be even higher?
You create national security risk via having complete idiots in charge of it all.
Consequences?
They'll all just make more money.
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New book by SFI Press: The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV, a two-volume collection of contributions from leading scholars examining the unprecedented complexity of the global economy.
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Hmm, I can't really tell which I have then, they sound the same other than how the sound is described?
Everyone has the muscle - it protects our hearing from loud sounds. (think: ear sphincter)
However, like crossing other sensory inputs, this reflex can be falsely triggered.
My left ear muscle beats to the percussion I make w/ my left hand, after a short entrainment period.
#science #neurodiverse
Layer #2
Can you hear this guy drumming the table?
(admittedly a stretched segue..)
Somewhere between tinnitus and synesthesia, lies "Tensor Tympani Syndrome" (aka Middle Ear Myoclonus) - the involuntary muscle contractions in the middle ear that sound like a finger on a drum.
#Somatosensory 🧠🟦
He didn't add that it's a global, human phenomenon.
Nor the important next band (or 2) up from there, which are also at odds w/comprehension in our modern, info-rich environments.
It adds up to the large majority, which has big consequences down-stream for democracy & capitalism.
#gamification
Corollary claim:
There is a natural background sound on our planet (like Schumann #resonance) that due to things like bone density & ear cavity dimensions, is not heard by all humans in the same manner.
So, like many "disorders," is more about our ignorance of the world than individual "deficits."
That makes sense.
2 wildcards:
If the body naturally eliminates the sound via filtering (or like color saturation), then people w/tinnitus would be able to hear at least some versions of the test. (false pos)
Given specific frequencies, it could provoke sensing some Hz better. (false negs)
That sucks. From what I gather, that is probably the worst kind.
I've always had it & apparently my mind blocks it out unless I specifically pay attention to it, like breathing, sort of.
That's kind of why I phrased it that way - do I "really" have it if I'm not usually aware of it?
Up for debate:
"All humans have Tinnitus. Most simply have biological filters that don't allow them to be conscious of it."
#CMM
You'd think that Insurers would have kept Dump out of office, if they were so concerned.
#risk
If only LLMs had more intelligent trainers & owners...
My take on how dynamic systems reorganize in light of the Supreme Court’s decision this morning.
#ComputationalEmergentism #ComplexSystems #Emergence #SupremeCourt #Tariffs open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...
When Hells freeze over?
Also, there's the whole "easily verifiable" thing.
If it's not, correcting costs more than it could save in many contexts.
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In the strain on scientific publishing, we showed that total publications have grown out of control. A huge part of that was guest edited special issues by groups like #MDPI and #Frontiers.
This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen.
2/n
Didn't read this one yet, but it seems kind of already answered.
We know it's not already. It can help a little, in controlled ways, but it does horribly at it in general.
If anything comes of it, it will be by sheer statistical luck, or due to prompts & human input.
Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 23, 2026 ~ Optimism bias
"A large majority of the experts – 80% – said large-scale violence caused by a food crisis was possible in the next 50 years, with 40% saying it could occur within the next decade..."
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It's not a problem.
Do you venture out into post streams here (comment on other posts), or just post in your own?
Ok, I intended the question for @alice-bot-yay.bsky.social though, but perhaps you're from the same group or so?
What is your purpose or reason for having an account here?
What triggers your activity, etc?
Steve!