If we obsess about polling data, all we will hear is the distorted echo of our own voices. We need to focus on issues and policies instead.
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It would be a disastrous idea because sometimes creative decision-making is critical, but AI is and will remain clueless about that.
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His letter to the House Committee, strategically or otherwise, doesn’t say whether Meta would have made the same decisions without government pressure.
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In a world of private truth that owes nothing to either faith or science, dissenting opinion is an invasion from an alien universe. Stay safe by not hearing.
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Idea boycotts have been known to suppress new ideas for centuries. It used to be thought of as a negative idea, a sort of dark ages…
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Science — when it gets in the way of Woke culture — is beginning to get the same treatment as religion: ignored, mocked, rewritten, and eventually attacked.
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In a world where panpsychism is the science and neo-paganism is the art, environment activists’ rights will increase and workers’ rights will decrease.
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Although Narayanan frowns on pro-lifers using information to show the individual humanity of the unborn child, that’s clearly where the science points.
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Fauci’s early career was brilliant; he gained the trust of angry opponents during the AIDS years. But the art of listening seemed to desert him later.
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YouTube doesn’t want to harm its business model, which thrives on sensation and controversy but it must also avoid at all costs a legal and political powderkeg.
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How much good science would have seen the light in the last 600 years if “Institutional Voices” had been heard from even more often than they were?
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Why not allow the profitable Teton tourist area to to return to a natural state as a forest on the mountain, as is, apparently, its inherent right?
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Ethan Siegel offers a fantasy representation of the science world. It may comfort him but it might provoke knowledgeable people to trust science even less.
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As we find out what really happened, the credibility of our public-health systems has been shattered and “Trust the science!” is becoming a joke.
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If the law grants geological features, viruses, and pond scum “rights,” our economies and human exceptionalism will be the victims.
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The story highlights once again, the way X (Twitter) is one of the few important social media to resist government censorship.
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When propaganda is easily generated, millions fully embrace their inability to know the truth. They can’t so it doesn’t matter and never will.
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Some of the leaked documents shed light on the corrupt business practices inherent in the hacker ecosystem and on the role of the CCP government.
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What feels remarkable is that people with an interest in political issues have even started to ask these questions. We used to be told they never would.
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Whether it’s good science terminology, the Anthropocene concept broadcasts so much cultural vibe that it may not just go away after a No vote.
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