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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun Dec 31
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      Lulie Retweeted Alexey Guzey

      I have no idea what the truth is about sleep. But this raises questions like: - How do you judge claims without doing 130hrs of research? - Given studies themselves can be similarly bad, how do we know anything? (Do we?) - how to tune your BS detector - Self-experiment = best?https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1195380402078265345 …

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      Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey
      For the last two months I've been sleeping for 4 hours a night, thinking about Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep". 130 hours of writing and research and 6000 words later: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ …
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    2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 1
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      I'm not sure. But I glanced at the book & reviews and it looked obviously... well, not wrong, but not very good.https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1176866638278184962 …

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      No, it doesn't.
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    3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 1
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @reasonisfun

      I think my answer is: spend thousands of hours reading papers, trying to sort wheat from chaff and learn as much as you can. At the end, you'll do it very quickly, mostly unconsciously. This isn't very helpful at a process level.

      2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 1
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @reasonisfun

      When I was a grad student I did a bunch of grad-level course work in molbio. The bio dept had a famous course on how to read a scientific paper and figure out whether to believe it. I tried to take it but they wouldn’t let me; it was for ingroup only.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 1
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      Replying to @Meaningness @michael_nielsen @reasonisfun

      They swore students to secrecy. I wonder if the contents have leaked since… Anyway, I’ve been thinking ever since about how to teach that for other fields

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    6. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 1
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      Replying to @Meaningness @reasonisfun

      I suspect the most important bits can't be reduced to process. You need to do it slowly and carefully a whole bunch of times, and all of a sudden you find yourself glancing at an abstract (or even a title) and going "That's BS", and pointing out likely failure modes...

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    7. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 1
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @Meaningness @reasonisfun

      It worries me a lot that I mostly developed this filter in certain fields, but apply it in other areas. The sleep book _looks_ wrong, but what the hell kinda business do I have rapidly judging a book on sleep?

      3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. Adam Strandberg‏ @The_Lagrangian Jan 1
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @Meaningness @reasonisfun

      asymmetry- most things are wrong so quickly judging something as wrong is typically fine

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 1
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      Replying to @The_Lagrangian @michael_nielsen @reasonisfun

      I think I read the abstract and think “yeah, nonsense” and then I look for confirmation :) But sometimes a quick skim does change my mind, do it’s not 100% confirmation bias

      5:22 PM - 1 Jan 2020
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