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Sam Harris speaks with Nate Silver about cultural attitudes toward risk and the state of American politics. They discuss the erosion of trust in liberal institutions, polling and political narratives, different camps of cultural elites, the influence of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of FTX, Gell-Mann amnesia, Christopher Rufo, why Kamala Harris can't admit to having changed her views, a problem with strict utilitarianism, AI and existential risk, what people misunderstand about election forecasting, which news events have affected the 2024 race, how current polls might be misleading, public vs. private polling, undecided and marginal voters, Gen Z, the gender divide, the likelihood that Trump won't accept the election results if he loses, election integrity in the swing states, the chance of a landslide, the prospect of public unrest, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe. Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That's why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life's most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

Share this episode: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/389-the-politics-of-risk Sam Harris speaks with Nate Silver about cultural attitudes toward risk and the state of American politics. They discuss the erosion of trust in liberal institutions, polling and political narratives, different camps of cultural elites, the influence of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of FTX, Gell-Mann amnesia, Christopher Rufo, why Kamala Harris can’t admit to having changed her views, a problem with strict utilitarianism, AI and existential risk, what people misunderstand about election forecasting, which news events have affected the 2024 race, how current polls might be misleading, public vs. private polling, undecided and marginal voters, Gen Z, the gender divide, the likelihood that Trump won’t accept the election results if he loses, election integrity in the swing states, the chance of a landslide, the prospect of public unrest, and other topics. Nate Silver is a statistician, writer, and poker player. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and author of the New York Times best sellers The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don't and On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything. He writes the Substack Silver Bulletin. Twitter: @NateSilver538 Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

Photo by Karol Stefański on Unsplash Support me at patreon.com/bionicplanet Related Links to Follow In episode 108 of Bionic Planet, I delve into a recent article published by the Washington Post that is riddled with inaccuracies, false premises, and misleading information. The episode serves as a critical analysis of the article, highlighting the importance of fact-checking and the credibility of mainstream media in reporting on complex issues such as climate change and carbon finance. The episode begins with a passionate rant about the Washington Post's story, titled "How Carbon Cowboys Are Cashing In on Protected Amazon Forest," which misrepresents the reality of carbon credits and their role in combating climate change. The host points out the flaws in the article's framing of the issue of nebulous land titles in the Brazilian Amazon and its failure to provide a nuanced understanding of the complexities involved. Throughout the episode, the host emphasizes the difference between uncertainty and inaccuracy, drawing on examples from the article to illustrate the importance of distinguishing between the two. The host also references the concept of Gell-Mann amnesia, highlighting the tendency for readers to overlook inaccuracies in one area while trusting the same source on other topics. The episode delves into the challenges of reporting on climate finance and the need for accurate and nuanced coverage in mainstream media. The host critiques the Washington Post's oversimplification of the issue of tangled land titles in Brazil and highlights the importance of understanding the nuances of carbon finance and climate solutions. In conclusion, the host calls for a more informed and critical approach to reporting on climate issues, emphasizing the need for accuracy, accountability, and progress in media coverage. The episode ends with a call to support the podcast through Patreon and sponsorship opportunities, highlighting the importance of amplifying legitimate debates and challenging misinformation in the climate realm. Overall, episode 108 of Bionic Planet offers a thought-provoking analysis of the Washington Post's misleading story, shedding light on the complexities of climate finance and the challenges of reporting on environmental issues in mainstream media. Timestamps 00:00:00 - Introduction to Rant about Washington Post Article 00:05:30 - Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect 00:11:30 - Critique of Washington Post's Misleading Claims 00:17:45 - Misrepresentation of Carbon Market 00:20:59 - Importance of Voluntary Carbon Market 00:23:10 - Criticism of The Guardian's Perspective 00:25:28 - Examination of World Rainforest Movement 00:29:12 - Issues with Independent Auditing Groups 00:30:14 - Conclusion and Call to Action Quotes "The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia." - 00:05:21-00:05:32 "We chase the immediate, the ephemeral, and ignore the seismic, the fundamental." - 00:18:37-00:18:48 "Let's not forget that we're here because we failed." - 00:20:59-00:21:10 "The fact is that many, and perhaps most, project developers were bleeding red ink for most of the past 15 years." - 00:17:45-00:17:55 "The Washington Post seriously overstates the prices that developers have received over the past 25 years." - 00:19:38-00:19:48 "The impetus for this Washington Post piece was a seriously flawed bit of blather called Neocolonialism in the Amazon, Red Projects in Portal, Brazil." - 00:24:46-00:24:57 "The problems with this Washington Post piece go on and on, but it also raises a few points that could be serious if they turn out to be true, and that's what's so frustrating." - 00:30:14-00:30:24 "Given the reporter's failure to get even basic premises right, and to insist on presenting an old, gray, intractable problem as a new, simple story complete with heroes and villains, I'm inclined to disbelieve those parts that seem to offer answers where I've only found questions." - 00:30:24-00:30:36 "I'm not here to balance negative stories with positive ones. I'm here to balance half-baked simplistic gibberish with contextualized complex truth." - 00:31:39-00:31:49

O jornalista se consagra ao contar grandes histórias, mas não é fácil: é preciso encontrar essas histórias, apurá-las e depois escrevê-las de um jeito interessante. O que acontece quando uma dessas etapas não dá certo? A história do alemão Claas Relotious trata do que é e do que deveria ser o jornalismo. Este é mais um episódio do Escuta Essa, podcast semanal em que Denis e Danilo trocam histórias de cair o queixo e de explodir os miolos. Todas as quartas-feiras, no seu agregador de podcasts favorito, é a vez de um contar um causo para o outro. Não deixe de enviar os episódios do Escuta Essa para aquela pessoa com quem você também gosta de compartilhar histórias e aproveite para mandar seus comentários e perguntas no Spotify, nas redes sociais , ou no e-mail escutaessa@aded.studio. A gente sempre lê mensagens no final de cada episódio! ... NESTE EPISÓDIO -O jornalista Claas Relotious nasceu em Hamburgo em 1985 e se formou na Universidade de Bremen. Escreveu para diversas publicações em língua alemã além da Der Spiegel, como a Cicero e o Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagzeitung. Ele ganhou (e depois teve que devolver) os prêmios “oJournalist of the Year” da CNN em 2014, o European Press Prize em 2017, e o Deutscher Reporterpreis em 2013, 2015, 2016 e 2018. -A Der Spiegel concentra neste texto as respostas para as principais questões sobre o caso Claas Relotious. -É possível baixar um arquivo em alemão com todas as matérias de Claas na Der Spiegel e os comentários da redação da revista. -Um texto de 2018 escrito por moradores de Fergus Falls, nos EUA, foi um dos primeiros a denunciar erros de Claas Relotious. -Em 2017, um ano antes da matéria ‘A última testemunha', o The New York Times contou a história de Gayle Gaddis, que tem história bem parecida com a de Gayle Gladdis, da história de Claas. -O encontro de jornalismo que o Denis cita no episódio é o International Journalism Festival de 2019. Uma mesa com Swantje Dake, Jeff Jarvis, Tanit Koch e Jay Rosen discutiu o caso Claas Relaotious e as consequências do jornalismo baseado em histórias. -O El País conta com detalhes como o jornalista Juan Moreno desvendou as farsas do colega. -O livro ‘The Hitler Diaries', de Charles Hamilton, conta a história de como Konrad Kujau produziu os diários de Hitler e enganou a Stern. -O Art Newspaper conta como foi o roubo da Monalisa em 1911 por Vincenzo Peruggia. -Cem anos depois do roubo de Monalisa, o Saturday Evening Post escreveu sobre o artigo de Karl Decker publicado por eles que dizia que um tal Eduardo de Valiferno havia planejado o roubo do quadro. - O fato de que especialistas percebem incoerências em uma reportagem jornalística mas se esquecem da possibilidade de incoerências quando leem reportagens de outras áreas leva o nome de "efeito de amnésia de Gell-Mann". - O episódio do The Daily sobre solidão no Japão, lembrado pelo ouvinte Michael Burt, chama-se "A shrinking society in Japan" e é de 2021. ... AD&D STUDIO A AD&D produz podcasts e vídeos que divertem e respeitam sua inteligência! Acompanhe todos os episódios em aded.studio para não perder nenhuma novidade.

Dr. Paul Springs joins Alan again to talk about journalism, Matt Yglesias and the Gell-Mann effect.  Matt Yglesias wrote an article called "Dentists are bad" on his Substack. Instead of talking about some real "bad" things in our profession, he went straight to the lowest common denominator. Paul and Al talk about how journalism typically talks about dentistry and maybe how they could be more interesting and ask better questions. Matt thinks oral health is important Matt has a very limited understanding about dental disease in our population Matt thinks that regulation that allows dental hygienists to practice independently would fix the high costs of dentistry. Never read the comments. NEVER READ THE COMMENTS. Mead's law: journalism about dentists will inevitably devolve into comments about anecdotes featuring horrible experiences with dentists Health care that's not really health care (Stretch Center/monthly air polish/blow out bar) Primary and secondary health care  The overhead of an independent hygiene office Is there a way to screen for disease before seeing a hygienist or dentist? Gell-Mann amnesia What is informed consent? Al's podcast on communication and trust The informed consent Al got for his surgery The difference between "predatory dentistry" and hindsight The transparency of talking about money They hate us because we give them shots, talk about money and we do surgery on people who are awake "Dentists are rich and often shady" Fibromas R' Us and the regulatory state of dentistry Where do midlevel providers fit? Some links from the show: Matt Yglesias' Substack "Slow Boring" Do we need to take out wisdom teeth so often? How about tongue ties? Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy," "Papa Randy" or "Lipscomb!" The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you'd like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! -- Crazy Dental has everything you need from cotton rolls to equipment and everything in between and the best prices you'll find anywhere! If you head over to verydentalpodcast.com/crazy and use coupon code “VERYDENTAL10” you'll get another 10% off your order! Go save yourself some money and support the show all at the same time! -- The Wonderist Agency is basically a one stop shop for marketing your practice and your brand. From logo redesign to a full service marketing plan, the folks at Wonderist have you covered! Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/wonderist! -- Enova Illumination makes the very best in loupes and headlights, including their new ergonomic angled prism loupes! They also distribute loupe mounted cameras and even the amazing line of Zumax microscopes! If you want to help out the podcast while upping your magnification and headlight game, you need to head over to verydentalpodcast.com/enova to see their whole line of products! -- CAD-Ray offers the best service on a wide variety of digital scanners, printers, mills and even  their very own browser based design software, Clinux! CAD-Ray has been a huge supporter of the Very Dental Podcast Network and I can tell you that you'll get no better service on everything digital dentistry than the folks from CAD-Ray. Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/CADRay!

Al recently read an article by Matt Yglesias called "Dentists are bad." (sic) Even worse...he read the comments.  As these things tend to do, it devolved into a bunch of horrible anecdotes about terrible things that dentists have done to innocent patients.  So, why do they hate us? And more importantly, what are dentists doing wrong to make them hate us?  Al has thoughts. Some links from the show: "Dentists are bad" (sic) by Matt Yglesias (it's probably behind a paywall the Gell-Mann effect Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy," "Papa Randy" or "Lipscomb!" The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you'd like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! -- Crazy Dental has everything you need from cotton rolls to equipment and everything in between and the best prices you'll find anywhere! If you head over to verydentalpodcast.com/crazy and use coupon code “VERYDENTAL10” you'll get another 10% off your order! Go save yourself some money and support the show all at the same time! -- The Wonderist Agency is basically a one stop shop for marketing your practice and your brand. From logo redesign to a full service marketing plan, the folks at Wonderist have you covered! Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/wonderist! -- Enova Illumination makes the very best in loupes and headlights, including their new ergonomic angled prism loupes! They also distribute loupe mounted cameras and even the amazing line of Zumax microscopes! If you want to help out the podcast while upping your magnification and headlight game, you need to head over to verydentalpodcast.com/enova to see their whole line of products! -- CAD-Ray offers the best service on a wide variety of digital scanners, printers, mills and even  their very own browser based design software, Clinux! CAD-Ray has been a huge supporter of the Very Dental Podcast Network and I can tell you that you'll get no better service on everything digital dentistry than the folks from CAD-Ray. Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/CADRay!  

Why do we continue to trust the media even after they've been proven wrong so frequently? Michael Crichton called it “Gell-Mann Amnesia.” “In short: when we actually possess expertise in the subject under examination, we almost invariably find media representations of that subject are lacking at best and outright lies at worst,” summarizes James Corbett. “But, for some reason, once we turn the page or flip the channel, we go right back to believing that the other journalists and authors out there actually know what they're talking about.” 「 SPONSORED BY 」• CBDISTILLERY – Targeted CBD formulations made from the highest quality CLEAN ingredients. No fluff, no fillers – just pure, effective CBD solutions. Use code DREW for 20% off at https://CBDistillery.com James Corbett is an award-winning investigative journalist who founded The Corbett Report in 2007 as an outlet for news and information from an independent perspective. He has lectured on geopolitics and journalism at the University of Groningen, the French Institute for research in Computer Science and Automation, and Kyoto's Ritsumeikan University. Find him online at https://corbettreport.com Jordan Schachtel is an independent investigative journalist and publisher of The Dossier on Substack at https://dossier.substack.com. Follow him at https://twitter.com/jordanschachtel 「 SPONSORED BY 」 Find out more about the companies that make this show possible and get special discounts on amazing products at https://drdrew.com/sponsors • PROVIA - Dreading premature hair thinning or hair loss? Provia uses a safe, natural ingredient (Procapil) to effectively target the three main causes of premature hair thinning and hair loss. Susan loves it! Get an extra discount at https://proviahair.com/drew • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at https://drdrew.com/paleovalley • GENUCEL - Using a proprietary base formulated by a pharmacist, Genucel has created skincare that can dramatically improve the appearance of facial redness and under-eye puffiness. Get an extra discount with promo code DREW at https://genucel.com/drew • COZY EARTH - Susan and Drew love Cozy Earth's sheets & clothing made with super-soft viscose from bamboo! Use code DREW for a huge discount at https://drdrew.com/cozy • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at https://twc.health/drew 「 MEDICAL NOTE 」 Portions of this program may examine countervailing views on important medical issues. Always consult your personal physician before making any decisions about your health. 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (https://kalebnation.com) and Susan Pinsky (https://twitter.com/firstladyoflove). This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. 「 ABOUT DR. DREW 」 Dr. Drew is a board-certified physician with over 35 years of national radio, NYT bestselling books, and countless TV shows bearing his name. He's known for Celebrity Rehab (VH1), Teen Mom OG (MTV), The Masked Singer (FOX), multiple hit podcasts, and the iconic Loveline radio show. Dr. Drew Pinsky received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College and his M.D. from the University of Southern California, School of Medicine. Read more at https://drdrew.com/about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's solo podcast Vance describes how the human mind will overlook massive mistakes made by the media in subjects you understand as you read about subjects that are foreign to you.Vance offers some suggestions for podcasts that are outside of the typical corporate media that may give you new ways to understand the world around you.The Shaun Newman Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2sday-mashup-75/id1453077533?i=1000630014650Part of the Problem (episode on becoming a libertarian): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-anatomy-of-a-libertarian-ft-keith-knight/id833706616?i=1000629246966Your Welcome with Michael Malice: (episode with two people from totally opposite political perspectives having a conversation about corporate media): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cenk-uygur-episode-276/id1389660155?i=1000627768171To learn more about Legacy Interviews: https://legacyinterviews.com

Support me by becoming wiser and more knowledgeable – check out Murray Gell-Mann's collection of books for sale on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/4aiklsw If you purchase a book through this link, I will earn a 4.5% commission and be extremely delighted. But if you just want to read and aren't ready to add a new book to your collection yet, I'd recommend checking out the ⁠⁠⁠Internet Archive⁠⁠⁠, the largest free digital library in the world. If you're really feeling benevolent you can buy me a coffee or donate over at ⁠https://ko-fi.com/theunadulteratedintellect⁠⁠. I would seriously appreciate it! __________________________________________________ Murray Gell-Mann (September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles, and the renormalization group as a foundational element of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. He played key roles in developing the concept of chirality in the theory of the weak interactions and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the strong interactions, which controls the physics of the light mesons. In the 1970's he was a co-inventor of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) which explains the confinement of quarks in mesons and baryons and forms a large part of the Standard Model of elementary particles and forces. Gell-Mann received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, a distinguished fellow and one of the co-founders of the Santa Fe Institute, a professor of physics at the University of New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California. Gell-Mann spent several periods at CERN, a nuclear research facility in Switzerland, among others as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow in 1972. Audio source ⁠here⁠⁠ Full Wikipedia entry ⁠here⁠ Murray Gell-Mann's books ⁠here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support

The interest in anti-gravity by two private investors, Roger Babson and Agnew Banhson, changed the course of general relativity.  Sponsor: Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early ad-free audio podcasts) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch THANK YOU: Thank you to David Kaiser, Eric Weinstein, Jeremy Rys, David Chester, and Jesse Michels for helping bring this to my attention. LINKS MENTIONED: - The Price of Gravity (Kaiser, Rickles): https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/HSNS4803_03_Kaiser.pdf - Chapel Hill Conference's Report (The Role of Gravitation in Physics): https://edition-open-sources.org/media/sources/5/Sources5.pdf - Behind the scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference: https://royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/journal/154-2-Rickles.pdf - Gell-Mann's Shelter Island Notes: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/files/Gell-Mann_ShelterIslandII_1983.pdf - Louis Witten's Recollections (video): https://youtu.be/iH8btReqv4c?t=6448 - Louis Witten speaks to Rickles: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/36985 - Physical Interpretation of Antigravity by Bars: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.05128.pdf - Garry Nolan's podcast on TOE: https://youtu.be/g3bk1UXjKLI TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Roger Babson & Agnew Banhson 00:07:09 - Gravity Research Foundation's "Essay Contest" 00:12:22 - Anti-gravity and Amendments to General Relativity 00:16:43 - Operation Moonwatch and UFOs 00:18:36 - Ed Witten's father (Louis) and Burkhard Heim 00:25:43 - Summary 00:26:32 - Chapel Hill Conference 00:27:58 - Revival of General Relativity (Hawking & Penrose) 00:30:44 - String Theory and the Legacy of Babson & Banhson 00:33:01 - Dean Rickles, David Kaiser, and Other Documentaries CLARIFICATIONS: - Technically it was George S. Trimble who started the RIAS. Witten's supervisor was someone named Welcome Bender. I had this in the original script but it was becoming extortionately bloated with various names, and since Trimble was the CEO of Glenn Martin, I decided to phrase it the way I did in the script. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew explains Gell-Mann amnesia and Adam shares a theory of how people become defensive when they know they are lying. They get into democrats being forced into a weird position where they go against their own agenda and the odd meeting where 6 feet was chosen randomly to be the social distancing norm. Please Support Our Sponsors: Simplisafe.com/ADAM2

Today, Dee and Anand discuss a variety of topics impacting the business world. They start with the news that China's CCP is warning Elon Musk against sharing the Wuhan lab leak report. They also talk about how as Americans work from home, Europeans and Asians are heading back to the office, and how this impacts the global economy. In addition, they touch on the current state of the rental market as apartment rents fall due to a crush of new supply. The hosts also dive into how hybrid work is hurting big city restaurants and bars, according to a recent study. Finally, they discuss several interesting developments in the retail sector, including Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz calling new olive oil coffee drinks "transformational," Ye and Adidas reportedly reaching an agreement to sell remaining $500 million USD in YEEZY sneakers, and McDonald's Cardi B and Offset promotion drawing pushback from some restaurant owners. Plus, they also examine how the parent company of AT&T SportsNet is discontinuing regional sports networks. - written by ChatGPT Connect with Group Chat! Watch The Pod #1 Newsletter In The World For The Gram Tweet With Us Exclusive Facebook Content We're @groupchatpod on Snapchat  

The Field Guide to Particle Physics : Season 2https://pasayten.org/the-field-guide-to-particle-physics©2022 The Pasayten Institute cc by-sa-4.0The definitive resource for all data in particle physics is the Particle Data Group: https://pdg.lbl.gov.The Pasayten Institute is on a mission to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers! Get in touch.The Omega BaryonIntroductionThe Omega Baryon is the strangest particle we have encountered so far. It may also be the strangest particle known to Science, literally.With a mass of 1672.4 MeV, the Omega Baryon is heavy. As well it should be. It is comprised of three, strange quarks. The three strange quarks gives the Omega an electric charge of three times minus one third, or minus one. Those strange quarks also gives it the unusually long lifetime of about 8% of a nanosecond. While short by our standards - even a bit shorter than some other strange particles - a solid fraction of a nanosecond is an enormous lifetime for a particle with such an enormous mass.The Decay of Strange QuarksAs if on brand, this strangest of the strange particles lives for so long precisely because its made from only strange quarks. The strange quarks, you might recall, struggle to decay. They wouldn't decay- actually - if not for a mild identity crisis.The strange quarks talk to other particles both by photon, gluon and by W boson. That is, in addition to the electromagnetic force, strange quarks communicate via both the strong and weak nuclear forces. From the strong force's perspective, strange quarks are distinct. Just like the up and down quarks. Nobody is confused, all that that subnuclear gu respects their identity as strange quarks.The weak force hedges a bit. The W-boson in particular is a little confused on who is who, and from its perspective down and strange quarks are a little mixed. Just like North and West mean slightly different things to a compass or a cartographer, down and strange quarks appear slightly different to the strong and weak forces. They're almost aligned, but not quite.As a result, the strange quark decays by W boson as if it were a down quark. That decay is amplified by the strange quark's heavy mass, but its still a small effect. The weak nuclear force is… well… weak.Being made of three strange quarks, the Omega baryon decays once one of its constituents does.Omega Baryon Decay ChannelsThe Omega minus decays when one of its strange quarks throws out a W boson, changing its identity to an up quark.  Typically the W-boson then decays to a pair of quarks itself, an antiup and a down quark. This all happens quickly inside the baryon itself, which subsequently explodes into a pair or triplet of particles. There there are a number of possible results.Two-thirds of the time, that anti-up quark SCORES and runs away with one of the Omega's other strange quarks, creating one of those tricky K minus mesons that we've discussed previously. What's left over? An up, a down and a strange quark, which manifests as a Lambda zero baryon.Twenty-three percent of the time, that anti-up quark isn't so lucky. It remains stuck so the down quark that came from W boson, which together run away as a negatively charged pion.  The quarks that remain - two strange and an up - comprise the neutral cascade or Xi baryon, which of course leads to its own cascade of particle decays.Almost all the rest of the time - that's about 8% for you bean counters out there - the Omega baryon spits out a neutral pion, decaying to a Xi minus instead.  For this to happen, that down quark has to hold on tight to that pair of strange quarks that didn't decay.On extremely rare occasions, instead of a neutral pion, the Omega decays to Xi minus by spitting out a pi+ pi- pair. This could happen, for instance, the resulting up and antiup quarks happened to find a down-anti down pair inside the subnuclear goo.Spin and the DecupletIn addition to having three strange quarks, the Omega baryon also has three times the angular momentum of most baryons we've encountered so far. Inside the baryon, those three strange quarks are all zooming around each other, extra fast.We've seen this behavior before, when we looked into the Delta baryons. The Delta Plus Plus baryon, you might remember had three up quarks. And the Delta Minus baryons, which had three down quarks.In a sense, the Omega baryon is the strange version of those beasts. Because of that simple, three strange quark arrangement, the Omega baryon was predicted to exist well before it was found. Well, that's… not exactly right. In fact, it's exactly backwards. Back in the 50s and early 60s nobody knew what a quark was, or how baryons were even organized. They just had all those wild names: Delta. Sigma. Xi. This zoo of strange particles was something of a mystery. The physicist Gell-Mann (and, independently Ne'eman) chased the patterns of all the particles and their decays and divsed the quark model to fit those data. There was only one problem: one particle was missing.  The Omega baryon was discovered as a short stub of a line which appeared on a photographic plate at Brookhaven national Lab. It had essentially the same mass, spin and charge that Gell-Mann predicted, ushering in the first of many experimental verifications of the quark model of subnuclear physics.And that concludes our second - STRANGE - season of the Field Guide to Particle Physics! We've got a few bonus episodes, stories and other extras in store, including a bonus series on Gell-Mann's Eightfold Way and more details on how particles like the Down and Strange quarks mix. So please stay tuned and subscribe for more!

Original Air Date: Monday 7 February, 9 pm EasternDescription:Season 1 of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour ended in November of 2019 after 652 episodes. Season 2 ended last week after 113 episodes. This week, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness launch Season 3 as they make the move to Subspace Radio! They will "re-set" their topics, bringing back the "Explanation of the Week" while discussing something called the "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" and the "Wingnut of the Week" while discussing sci-fi novelist and filmmaker Michael Crichton. In "Celebrity Deaths", they will remember the legendary improviser who played "Dr. Johnny Fever”. All that, plus a deep dive into what made season 2 of "Ted Lasso" so divisive for viewers and a big award hopeful this Oscar season: Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos.

Reading something you know is wrong makes you more likely to believe the next thing you read even if it's from the same source. Hosts: Peter Lowe (@pgl) Jon Cohen (@jonnisec) Mike Sutton (@zenmike)

L'effetto dell'amnesia Gell-Mann ci fa credere a quello che leggiamo, anche se nella stessa pubblicazione abbiamo letto poco prima un articolo che noi sappiamo essere zeppo di errori. Ascoltate se la cosa è poco chiara. (Cose di cui ci si accorge riascoltandosi dopo aver registrato senza preparazione e senza editing: Michael Crichton scriveva di spionaggio, non di fantascianza; il quark è stato scoperto, non inventato. Non vogliatemene troppo.)

Read: https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbase-fact-check-decentralizing-truth-in-the-age-of-misinformation-757d2392d61a Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoZG89pDzzY (33mins in) Coinbase Fact check: https://blog.coinbase.com/factcheck/homeAnnouncing Coinbase Fact Check: Decentralizing truth in the age of misinformationEvery tech company should go direct to their audience, and become a media company.Whether traditional, social, or corporate media, we're all just typing words on the internet.As Coinbase and the cryptoeconomy grow, we've seen more interest from the media, government, and the general public in our business and in crypto overall. This increased awareness has been great. Unfortunately, we also see misinformation published frequently as well, whether in traditional media, social media, or by public figures.This doesn't always come from negative intentions. Our business, and crypto, can be difficult to understand, and often people are rushed to post first impressions online, making mistakes in the process. At other times, misinformation comes from people pushing their own agenda, or from those who have a conflict of interest.This is not unique to our business or industry of course. Every company experiences this to some degree, and it can be incredibly frustrating.So how should companies respond to misinformation?The choicesOption 1: turn the other cheekThe most common advice you'll hear from PR firms and boards is to work behind the scenes to correct misinformation, but never engage in public fights. This might mean working with journalists to fact check a story, or to send internal emails to employees when misinformation is spreading on social media.Pejoratively, one could call this the pacifist's approach. Yes, you're taking regular beatings from a bully, but don't fight back. Just focus on building a great product and helping the industry grow, and everything will work out in the long run.On the surface, this approach makes a lot of sense. Why pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, or with internet trolls who have too much time on their hands. After all, most of your customers probably never see the misinformation, and it can just draw more attention to respond publicly. Companies should never lose focus on the primary objective: building great products.On the other hand, it can be very damaging to a company's brand to let misinformation spread unchecked, and working through third parties to share your side of the story rarely is effective. You might, at best, get a short quote in a narrative that someone else controls.If you look at companies like Facebook, they suffered enormous brand damage when traditional media coverage of them went south (although their business metrics seem to be unaffected). Accurate or not, traditional media has a conflict of interest when covering this topic, as they are in the process of being disrupted by tech. Yet to a large degree, Facebook turned the other cheek and didn't respond or point out this conflict.Option 2: fightThe opposite end of the spectrum is to actively fight back. Any time someone posts false information about your company, it's war. Come out swinging and never back down.This is a legitimate strategy that some companies have engaged in. Amazon's recent responses to Andrew Yang or Elizabeth Warren are in this direction, along with FedEx's CEO aggressively pushing back on a story they found inaccurate. And Peter Thiel's takedown of Gawker may be the canonical example.The advantage of this approach is that you are standing up for yourself. The downside is that warfare can be time-consuming, taking your energy away from building. You need to be prepared to go all the way, and it needs to be in line with your brand. There is an old quote which says “never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it”.Option 3: publish the truthI believe there is a reasonable middle ground between these first two options, which is to simply publish the truth, in a thoughtful and respectful way, and build a direct relationship with your audience. Companies no longer need to go through biased intermediaries to communicate with their customers and stakeholders. They often have equal or greater reach via their blog, podcast, YouTube channel, or through their own product. In many cases, the only organization that knows what really happened is the company itself.Tesla is a great example of this middle ground approach, in their Most Peculiar Test Drive blog post. Other examples include Apple debunking the claims of a cover piece or our own post correcting facts in the New York Times. These examples take a reasonable middle ground of trying to just share the facts.This “fact check” approach is not about antagonizing or embarrassing others, but simply sharing what happened through your own channels. It also means sharing the good along with the bad, with radical transparency. Companies are often reticent to share negative facts, in their inherent desire to look good, and therefore also have a conflict. To become a source of truth, companies will increasingly need to be comfortable sharing facts which paint them in a negative light as well. There is nothing like sharing mistakes, to build trust.Every company is becoming a media companyTraditional media has been a powerful source of accountability for centuries. In more recent years, social media has as well, as any individual can share what is actually happening. The power of both these institutions is staggering, and they serve an important function. But traditional media and social media each come with a healthy dose of misinformation, and I believe people's trust in these institutions has been in decline in recent years.Companies are now emerging as a third source of truth, and can create accountability when misinformation is spread via other channels.Amazon and Netflix built their own studios, Hubspot acquired the Hustle, a16z is going direct, Stripe has Stripe Press, and many more tech companies are quickly ascending the stack from mere “content marketing” to full-on media arms, complete with editors-in-chief and original content. As Balaji Srinivasan points out, this is the mirror image of legacy media corporations hiring engineers and declaring their aspiration to become world-class tech companies. There is no distinction anymore between app, distribution, and content — everyone is going full stack.What we're launchingToday we're announcing a section of our blog called “Fact Check”. We will use this section of the blog to combat misinformation and mischaracterizations about Coinbase or crypto being shared in the world.We're seeding the Fact Check section of our blog with these articles: A response to misinformation about the effect bitcoin mining has on the environment Some social media misinformation that spread on our executive share sales An old post we did rebutting misinformation in traditional media on an employee matter A more recent post we did correcting false statements by folks in government and industry about illicit activity in crypto Currently, these fact checks have been more reactive, responding to misinformation in the news as it happens. However as we build this out, we will get more proactive in helping dispel myths in the crypto space in order to be a powerful source for people just coming in and learning about the cryptoeconomy.We will continue to update this section of our site over time and when new misinformation appears that is materially incorrect and being distributed broadly.Here are a few guidelines we've created for ourselves in publishing Fact Check articles: Be respectful, don't antagonize. Assume ignorance over malice, unless proven otherwise. Share our mistakes just as candidly as our successes. Don't respond to everything. Don't get distracted from the main goal: building great products. There is too much misinformation in the world for us to respond to everything. A lack of us posting should not be considered an indication that an external statement is true. We will only tackle misinformation that reaches some materiality threshold.The futureIn the future, we will need to move beyond fact checking, and start creating more of our own original content to communicate with our audience, and tell the stories of crypto that are happening all over the world. Many of these stories are not being told by traditional or citizen journalists. Fact checking is still largely reactive, but we need to move to a more proactive stance on content creation to have a true media arm.Distribution of our content will happen through podcasts, YouTube, our blog, Twitter, and every other channel we own. But in the future, it will also likely move to more crypto native platforms, like Bitclout, or crypto oracles. Long term, the real source of truth will be what can be found on-chain, with a cryptographic signature attached.ConclusionMany readers have probably experienced the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: you read an article about something where you have first-hand knowledge, find it to be half true at best, and then turn the page to the next post/article and resume assuming it must be true. It takes this happening a number of times to change one's estimates of what they are reading on every topic.Crypto is a rapidly emerging space with growing attention and focus on it right now. Unfortunately, with this attention comes a lot of misinformation that is damaging, not only for companies like Coinbase, but for the space broadly. We want to do our best to ensure that when a customer, a regulator, or another important stakeholder is doing their research on crypto that they're seeing information that is accurate and objective.Over time, my prediction is that more and more companies will go direct, building their own media arm, while remaining focused on their primary goal of building great products. The tools for distribution have become democratized, and every company can become a source of truth.

On our 6th installment we discuss the popular Netflix documentary "Seaspiracy" and its trustworthy-ness. We also react to what we've been watching recently, and as always give our recs.

Gell-Mann Amnesia: Despite having this searing experience with media articles where we actually have meaningful personal knowledge, we believe without hesitation the next story we read where we don’t! https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

Subscribe to the podcast We all know how bad the media is, but just how bad is it?  We recently came across a concept called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect (thanks, Vake), which just about perfectly sums up how poorly a lot of us take in information given to us by the media.  How do we deal with this? Items mentioned Michael Crichton's explanation of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect UN Women tweet Sponsor Liberty Mugs Keep in touch with us everywhere you are Join our Telegram group Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter: @RolloMcFloogle @Slappy_Jones_2 Check us out on Patreon Learn everything you need to know about Bitcoin in just 10 hours 10HoursofBitcoin.com

Tim, Ian, and Lydia take some time to talk technology pitfalls with Breitbart Tech writer Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue on Twitter), including the ways Google censors conservative search results, sock puppet accounts, Wikipedia, Gell-Mann amnesia, anonymity and whether it is a net positive for internet denizens, Alex Jones, the misleading polls, and finally, net neutrality. Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate)

Thank you for joining us! On today’s episode Nick discusses the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect and the role that it plays in the media. We all should question what we see in the news and also remember to take a break from media/social media. Nick talks about how your perception is your reality and just how subjective it truly is.

Står din tvilling verkligen och viker tvätt just nu i ett parallellt universum? Helena Granström funderar över hur fysikens teorier förhåller sig till verkligheten. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Essän sändes första gången 2017. Vill du förstå universums expansion? Föreställ dig en bulldeg. Degen är späckad med russin och håller som bäst på att jäsa placera dig nu i ett av dessa russins ställe, och fråga dig vad du ser. Svaret är oberoende av vilket russin du väljer: Om bulldegen inte är alltför ogenomskinlig, ser du hur alla omkringliggande russin rör sig bort från dig. Poängen med den här analogin är alltså att alla russin rör sig bort från varandra, men att detta inte beror på att russinen är i rörelse i degen, utan på att själva degen expanderar. Degen, det vill säga rymden. Russinen, det vill säga galaxerna. Okej? Låt oss, när vi ändå är igång, försöka förstå den allmänna relativitetsteorin. Föreställ dig en studsmatta. Visst, där är den, platt och fin. Lägger du till exempel en pingisboll någonstans på ytan ligger den alldeles still. Men! Pröva nu att placera ett bowlingklot i mitten av mattan. Vad händer? Jo, förstås, ytan kommer att bukta nedåt, ungefär som på en skål, och lägger du nu dit en pingisboll kommer den ofrånkomligen att rulla in mot mitten. Sådärja! Allmän relativitetsteori: Rummet talar om för massa hur den skall röra sig, massa talar om för rummet hur det skall krökas, för att citera den amerikanske fysikern John Wheeler. Faktum är att massa talar om inte bara för rummet utan också för tiden hur den skall krökas studsmattans tvådimensionella yta i exemplet representerar alltså i själva verket en 3+1-dimensionell rumtid, och någon motsvarighet till den tredje dimensionen som mattan kröker sig i finns egentligen inte. I exemplet med studsmattan är det dessutom gravitationen som drar ned bowlingklotet mot marken och skapar buktningen i gummiytan, och som får pingisbollen att rulla ned längs den. I verkligheten är gravitationen ingenting annat än rumtidens krökning i närvaro av massa det är alltså ingen annan yttre kraft som får kroppar att söka sig till varandra, bara ett slags minsta motståndets princip hos kroppar i rörelse, och deras egen krökning av rumtidsväven. Det är någonstans här vi tvingas inse att verkligheten är komplicerad det som gör den begripliga bilden begriplig, är att den är förenklad. Richard Feynman, en av 1900-talets främsta fysiker, yttrade en gång sin motvilja mot att likna den elektromagnetiska kraft som skapar attraktion mellan två magneter vid ett gummiband. Visst, den drar ihop dem precis som ett gummiband skulle göra men, invände han, vad är det egentligen som får ett gummiband att bete sig som ett gummiband? I sista instans, samma elektromagnetiska kraft som vi ville förklara med gummibandsliknelsen resonemanget går i cirkel! Är det då ens i princip möjligt att genom enkla bilder förmedla subtila fysikaliska fenomen som rumtidens krökning? Det enkla svaret är förmodligen: Nej, inte utan att tänja på sanningen. Men hur sanningen faktiskt ser ut är heller inte uppenbart låt oss ta Einsteins speciella relativitetsteori som exempel. Den här teorin, som är mycket väl bekräftad, framställer rumtiden som en sorts fyrdimensionell limpa, med skivor som var och en svarar mot ett nu. Eftersom olika observatörer definierar sitt nu på olika sätt finns det många sätt att skiva limpan på och av det skälet gör den här modellen ingen skillnad mellan förflutet och framtid. Men, hur ser egentligen korrespondensen ut mellan den teoretiska modellen och den verklighet den avbildar? Skall det anses fastslaget att framtiden är fullständigt bestämd och existerar i lika hög grad som det förflutna? Eller, är teorin ingenting annat än en användbar bild en metafor som förmår fånga viktiga aspekter av tillvaron, men inte dess helhet? Om bulldegen och studsmattan i första hand är oprecisa, pedagogiska liknelser avsedda att förmedla något av fysikens smak och doft till lekmannen, är relativitetsteorin, liksom fysikens övriga modeller, en matematiskt väldefinierad konstruktion, som tillåter oss att träda in i den och därifrån genom beräkningar utvinna ny kunskap om världen; kunskap som sedan kan mätas mot observationer och experiment. Men, bara för att en modell förmår producera korrekta förutsägelser, måste den då vara sann? Den amerikanske fysikern Murray Gell-Mann fann vid 1960-talets början ett matematiskt argument för att partiklarna i gruppen hadroner, däribland protoner och neutroner, borde vara uppbyggda av mer fundamentala beståndsdelar. Om man antog existensen av sådana partiklar, med laddning av en typ man aldrig tidigare sett, förenklades teori och beräkningar avsevärt. Gell-Mann kallade de hypotetiska partiklarna för kvarkar, ett ord lånat från James Joyces nydanande roman Finnegans wake. Kvark, på engelska quark, inte långt ifrån quirk som i något udda udda, men likafullt användbart. Och det var också så Gell-Mann själv betraktade sin upptäckt som ett matematiskt redskap, utan motsvarighet i den fysiska verkligheten. Den konkreta kvarkmodellen den är för dumskallar!, lär han vid något tillfälle ha slagit fast. Några år senare kom de första experimentella beläggen för kvarkarnas existens från en accelerator i Stanford. Även med realistens övertygelse om att det finns en objektiv verklighet att upptäcka, inser vi att kunskap om denna verklighet endast kan nå oss genom den mänskliga erfarenhetens raster, om det så är i form av sinnesintryck eller matematik. Hur skall man veta vad som är bild, och vad som är verklighet? Om modellerna är liknelser, exakt vad är det som de efterliknar? I och med kvantmekanikens framväxt under 1900-talets första hälft, skapades en medvetenhet hos fysikerna om att relationen mellan matematik och naturligt språk, liksom mellan matematik och verklighet, är långt ifrån okomplicerad. Inom kvantfysiken, menade den danske fysikern Niels Bohr, kan språket på sin höjd användas som i diktkonsten. Är partikel en meningsfull bild? Ibland. Är våg en meningsfull bild? Ibland. Är det begreppet fält vi bör använda oss av för att förstå hur krafter och materia interagerar? Tja, vem vet det har i alla fall hjälpt oss att göra mycket exakta förutsägelser om verkligheten. Det vardagliga språkets metaforer betonar någon eller några aspekter av det de gestaltar, men utelämnar andra detta gäller även de matematiska modeller som vi upprättar för att beskriva verkligheten. Matematiken har en anmärkningsvärd förmåga både att beskriva den fysiska världen, och att hjälpa oss finna ny kunskap om den men den har också förmågan att lika övertygande beskriva världar som bevisligen inte är våra. Kanske är detta något att hålla i minnet, när vi låter ekvationerna leda oss fram till existensen av parallella universum och dolda dimensioner. Framför allt bör vi minnas det när vi använder kategorier och bilder förankrade i vår sinnliga erfarenhet, för att beskriva de aspekter av verkligheten som undflyr våra sinnen. Som Bohr framhöll kan den språkliga poesin etablera fruktbara associationer och antyda djupa sanningar men den bör inte alltid läsas bokstavligt. Det finns goda skäl att tro att samma sak gäller för de vetenskapliga modellerna. Helena Granström, författare med bakgrund inom fysik och matematik

The highly prolific Youtuber; Tim Pool recently mentioned the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. This sounded interesting and I decided to explore it a bit more. Links below: Tim Pool video: How Wikipedia Is Used To Smear People And Me, Media Lies Becomes Historical Fact Article by Howard Wetsman: A New Corollary to the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/justus-frank/message

La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Cromodinámica cuántica y el legado de Gell-Mann (1:32:30); La controversia de la galaxia sin materia oscura (7:00) ¿Está desapareciendo la gran mancha roja de Júpiter? (57:30); Emisiones clandestinas de CFC-11 deterioran la capa de ozono (1:13:30); Resultados científicos de la misión china a la Luna (1:19:30); Demostrada la "conjetura de Sheldon": Ciencia y Big Bang Theory (2:10:30); Aprendiendo sobre el aprendizaje mediante redes neuronales (2:23:00); Más comentarios sobre Starlink, la megaconstelación de satélites de Space X (16:30). En la foto, de arriba a abajo y de izquierda a derecha: Sara Robisco, Francis Villatoro, Alberto Aparici, Ángel López-Sánchez, Carlos Westendorp, Héctor Socas. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace… y a veces ni eso. CB:SyR es una colaboración entre el Área de Investigación y la Unidad de Comunicación y Cultura Científica (UC3) del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos de Tenerife.

La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Cromodinámica cuántica y el legado de Gell-Mann (1:32:30); La controversia de la galaxia sin materia oscura (7:00) ¿Está desapareciendo la gran mancha roja de Júpiter? (57:30); Emisiones clandestinas de CFC-11 deterioran la capa de ozono (1:13:30); Resultados científicos de la misión china a la Luna (1:19:30); Demostrada la "conjetura de Sheldon": Ciencia y Big Bang Theory (2:10:30); Aprendiendo sobre el aprendizaje mediante redes neuronales (2:23:00); Más comentarios sobre Starlink, la megaconstelación de satélites de Space X (16:30). En la foto, de arriba a abajo y de izquierda a derecha: Sara Robisco, Francis Villatoro, Alberto Aparici, Ángel López-Sánchez, Carlos Westendorp, Héctor Socas. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace… y a veces ni eso. CB:SyR es una colaboración entre el Área de Investigación y la Unidad de Comunicación y Cultura Científica (UC3) del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos de Tenerife.

A tribute to the life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Murray Gell-Mann, who died on May 24. Gell-Mann discovered the subatomic particle the Quark, and worked in many disciplines, including linguistics, archaeology, history and economics.

Torturing Sex Workers, with Melanie Ken's guest is Melanie, a self-identified active consensual adult sex worker, discussing various issues surrounding the sex trades, badly needed decriminalization, and holes in the law that create “viminals”, i.e., making criminals out of victims of sexual abuse.Found in this episode:What's in the Mail Bag? 00:03:00-00:16:45• Illogical education for Millennials• Gell-Mann amnesia when reading the news• Saving Glen Onoko Falls near Jim Thorpe• The decline of youth• More problems with the roads• Game Commission and Sunday huntingA Conversation with Melanie 00:19:00-00:45:10• Introduction• Definition of “sex workers”• Sex Workers' Outreach Project (SWOP)• SWOP Behind Bars, championing incarcerated sex workers• Decriminalizing sex workWhat Sticks in Ken's Craw? The Abortion Debate! 00:47:00-00:57:30• Both sides deeply entrenched• Defuse the abortion debate with Pre-Natal Adoption• Simultaneously Pro-Life and Pro-Choice:• Saves babies while preserving a woman's right to choose• Worst case: defaults to what we have nowMore Information:Guests:Abortion and Pre-Natal Adoption: https://www.kenk4pa.com/issues/abortion/Fetters Mill Bridge: https://www.lowermoreland.org/images/Fetters_Mill_Road_Bridge_Closure_PR.pdfGell-Mann amnesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effectGlen Onoko Falls: https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-glen-onoko-trail-20190416-iqnee4cukfahjnjcoceodapleq-story.htmlPennsylvania Game Commission: https://www.pgc.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx Pennsylvania Survivors Workers Community Clearinghouse: https://sexualpolitixxx.blogTeedyuscung, the magnificent Lenni Lenape Indian: https://www.fow.org/archives-indian-statue-wissahickon/Commercials:Amendment 16: http://AmendmentSixteen.comFreedom Financial Tax: 866-401-1090Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania: http://LpPa.orgIron Will Tattoo Club: https://ironwilltattoo.clubSteven Werley Digital Marketing: https://www.stevenwerley.comToastmasters International: http://toastmasters.orgWallace Automotive: https://www.wallaceautoservice.com

“A Martian scientist with no understanding of visual perception could understand the rainbow, or lightning, or clouds as physical phenomena,  though he would never be able to understand the human concepts of rainbow, lighting, or cloud, or the place these things occupy in our phenomenal world.” In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and Nat critically discuss the article What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel. This is the most famous piece on the mind-body problem. In it Nagel explores the mind-body issue, freedom, knowledge, meaning and value of human life. This article was penned down at an era where physicalism and materialism were prevalent, the idea that you can reduce all aspects of the mind to simply firings in the brain. However, Nagel was unpersuaded that physicalism of materialism gives an all-encompassing account of human experience. “Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting with consciousness it seems hopeless.” We cover a wide range of topics, including The mind-body consciousness problem Creating an objective interpretations of reality. Learning skills to overcome reporters biases Consciousness in animals Artificial intelligence (AI) and hacking of consciousness And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure to grab a copy of What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel! If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out our book episodes on consciousness like Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, Sapiens by Yuval Harari, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett, and The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. Be sure to join our mailing list to find out about what books are coming up, giveaways we're running, special events, and more. Links from the Episode Mentioned in the show The Beginning of Infinity on Wikipedia [04:52] (book episode) Pod Save America Podcast [19:20] HARO Help A Reporter Out [22:14] Fox News [23:30] CNBC [23:30] Turing Test [30:53] Chinese Room [31:13] Chess [32:00] Go game [32:40] Watson AI [39:53] Joe Rogan interviews Elon Musk [47:34] The Man in the High Castle Television TV series [54:08] Hardcore History ep 62 – Supernova in the East I [54:42] Books mentioned What it is to be like a bat? By Thomas Nagel Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter [00:39] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Way of Zen by Alan Watts [01:02] (Nat’s notes) (Neil’s notes) (book episode) Homo Deus by Yuval Harari [01:06] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett [1:11] (book episode) The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch [01:16] (book episode) The Riddle of the Gun by Sam Harris [16:53] (article episode) How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff [24:30] The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson [36:08] (Neil’s notes) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari [56:40] (Nat’s notes) (book episode part 1 & part 2) Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday [23:01] The Man in the High Castle Novel by Philip K. Dick [54:08] Plato's Republic [20:10] People mentioned David Deutsch [05:25] (Infinity episode) Daniel Dennett [08:25] (Darwin’s episode) Bobby McMullen – Blind Bike Rider [09:44] Donald Trump [12:23] Charles Darwin [30:15] Pepper the Poochon [33:40] Sam Harris [37:19] (Guns episode) Yuval Noah Harari [37:19] Douglas Hofstadter [43:36] Nick Bostrom [43:53] Karl Marx [46:02] Elon Musk [47:34] (on this podcast) Hiroo Onoda [55:17] Show Topics 01:00 – Consciousness. The article is about the theory of mind and consciousness, looking into the mind-body problem. Aspects of the mind can be linked to how the brain responds. 01:58 – Challenge to physicalism rather than refute reductionism. Reductionism and physicalism cannot be fully understood; thus, making these two theories flawed. “Every reductionist has his favorite analogy for modern science. It is most unlikely that any of these unrelated examples of successful reduction will shed light on the relation of mind to brain”. Nagel seems not to refute reductionism but rather exposing a big whole in it and saying you can't take reductionism seriously until you fill this hole. 03:43 – Mind-body consciousness problem. Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting with consciousness it seems hopeless. “It seems unlikely that any physical theory of mind can be contemplated until more thought has been given to the general problem of subjective and objective”. 05:27 – All problems are soluble given enough intelligence in time. 06:08 – Subjective filter for any information. Physicalism and reductionism create an objective interpretation of reality. Physicalism and reductionism in some ways rely on creating an objective interpretation of reality. All the thoughts human beings have are grounded from the subjective view of the world. 08:00 – Humans cannot understand a “what it is like aspect” because they are not in that very situation. A bat was used to demonstrate this concept. Human beings cannot comprehend how a bat moves and survives by echo-location thus this highlights human cannot understand subjective experience from human data. 09:04 – Humans can learn to echo-locate. An excellent example is Bobby McMullen, who is a blind mountain biker; he uses echolocation and his senses to mountain bike. 10:14 – However, according to Nagel, even if a human could echo-locate, that is still not equivalent to how bats echo-locate. 10:35 – Subjective interpretation of reality cannot be stepped out. This means something outside of one’s understanding cannot be fully grasped or comprehended. This concept applies to understand to someone who is totally different from you. You can never know exactly what they went through or understand what they do why they do some things; it is easy to judge someone thinking they are making irrational actions without viewing their actions from the subjective experience. 12:12 – How would look post-Trump era discussions. Urban Democrats have different interests and value systems than rural Republicans. Where to draw the line for life? Understanding pro-life people. Pro-gunners point of view. Having a gun in Texas is a must. 18:28 – Divided political sphere. Humans choose a side that will agree with their preconceived opinions. 19:58 – Decentralization makes it really hard to create a cohesive story and narrative for a population. 20:20 – Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Phenomenon where one will believe about something they know not about because it has been reported. Journalists are almost never trained to actually understand what they are reporting on, not confirming the authenticity of their sources and misunderstanding statistics. 24:00 – Learning how to read research articles is an important skill these days as we can't rely on media anymore. Famous bad reporters interpretations. Bacon is bad for you as smoking. Coconut oil is bad because saturated fats. 26:26 – Hanlon's Razor. Applying that to even news reporters, they are not doing it necessarily maliciously, they are doing it for one of two reasons- it works, people click on it and read it; the second thing is a lot of these sites are effectively content firms. This circles up to what Nagel is saying about subjective character of experience which we cannot step outside of and not understanding what it is like to be someone else. 28:20 – Test for consciousness. Mirror test for animal self awareness. 30:38 – AI discussion. What means a computer is conscious? Turing test is not enough. Reaching intelligence by brute force. Computers that don't want to play chess. 33:33 – Consciousness in animals. Every animal has a level of consciousness and awareness in the same fundamental way a human does. Dogs dreaming. 35:30 – The self is not necessarily an actual thing. Nagel is trying to keep the sense of self and the potential challenge to him is this thing you are trying to hold on to the mind, the sense of self is an illusion; there is not really anything special for what we think about this consciousness. 37:47 – Challenging reductionism. Nagel is challenging reductionism by pushing for a more helpful theory of mind that says it’s all mental- making it hard to comprehend any one’s mind. 38:43 – Subjective phenomena cannot be explained. Questions that arise with a conscious AI: can you unplug it? Can you reset it? Is it a slave? Riding horses and animals that work for humans. 40:26 – Artificial intelligence (AI) and consciousness. That will just reach a point where it is so competent that it is indistinguishable from interacting with another human. 43:05 – AI scare. An AI is sufficiently intelligent to be a threat to us all, it is sufficiently intelligent to know it shouldn't let us know it exists. AI that optimizes for paperclips can destroy the world. 43:38 – Use of the term is. E = mc2. Knowing that something is true without necessarily understanding why it is true. Consciousness and intelligence exist within its closed system. 50:10 – Knowledge is a justified true belief, based on theoretical understanding. “You can know that something is something without understanding what it means for it to be that thing.” 53:41 – Tangent. Japanese soldiers fighting after the war was over. 57:47 – Subscribe to Patreon to get our book notes, highlights, bonus material and support us without the need of ads. Sign up before october to participate to the next live hangout! Also, recommend us books (even via Instagram), and participate of our private community. Find us on Twitter @Neil Soni (@TheRealNeilS) and @Nat Eliason (@nateliason). Leave us a review on iTunes to get possible guests on the show. You can just write “Love this podcast! Neil and Nat are super fun.”. 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