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David Chapman

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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. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 25
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      Replying to @literalbanana @KevinSimler

      science is fake

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 25
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      Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana @KevinSimler

      Jokes aside, the task now imo is to understand why science works when it does. Which means putting aside the rationalist fairy tales and doing the hard work of analyzing lots of specifics and coming up with new, quite different understandings

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    3. Welp Banana‏ @literalbanana Jan 25
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      Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler

      back to honest postage stamp collecting maybe

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 25
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      Yeah that’s discussed in the podcast. It’s boring and the @fourbeerspod guys say they don’t want to do it; they want to have Big Ideas, that’s what they signed up for in the Olde Days. I totally sympathize, which is why I am an internet crackpot, not a scientist

      3 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
    5. Brian Marick‏ @marick Jan 26
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      Do they discuss that Darwin's 8-year-long exhaustive study of both living and fossil barnacles was important to both his development of theoretical ideas and his reputation as a careful observer whose wacky ideas should therefore be given credence?pic.twitter.com/EL3BVxnNiP

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    6. Brian Marick‏ @marick Jan 26
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      See http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Richmond_cirripedia.html … Maybe science is composed of "physics and stamp collecting", but stamp collecting has led to some damn impressive results.

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    7. Brian Marick‏ @marick Jan 26
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      The single time I was invited to an NSF "directions in research" meeting, my impassioned position paper that software research needed more Darwin-style stamp collecting met with a "that's not right; that's not even wrong" reaction. Alas.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 26
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      Early-20th-C physics lingers as the ideal model for all science. This distorts everything hideously, because nothing else works similarly. The Stanford Disunity School usefully pointed to alternative models of successful sciences. Has had little effect on practice unfortunately.

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    9. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Jan 26
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      What are some examples of alternative models David? The main one I can think of right now is anthropology, which I suppose is kinda stamp-collecty.

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    10. vape resort‏ @mmultiplier Jan 26
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      Mark Wilson is a big philosophy of science guy and draws from the history of engineering as more idiomatic of how science works (i would say he thinks computational problems as being more obvious here)https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/physics-avoidance-essays-in-conceptual-strategy/ …

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 26
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      Replying to @mmultiplier @KevinSimler and

      Thanks! This has been on my shortlist for a while. Looks to be an excellent corrective. The approach he advocates is probably not currently suitable for soc psych, although cog psych does use multi-level models of this sort:pic.twitter.com/qCui9egChU

      8:38 AM - 26 Jan 2020
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        2. vape resort‏ @mmultiplier Jan 26
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          oh nice, yea i previously tweeted to you about him bc it seemed up your alley, im slowly going through physics avoidance and will hopefully do a summary soon and ofc will be @'ing you in when i do

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 26
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          Thanks!

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