isn't demonstrability the criterion of science? if it is, nothing could ever be "pseudo" scientific. it's either demonstrable or not.
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Science is epistemological fitness in a strictly Darwinian sense. It's earned through selection by a transhuman (or non-social) criterion. ...
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No. Ultimately, what I think
@Outsideness is saying is that if my tribe has figured out how to mix copper and tin together in a certain way and yours hasn't, you can kiss goodbye to your life, your cattle and your daughters. Enlightenment marches on!1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @coloniser_3000 @Outsideness and
Even better if, like phylum Arthropoda harnessing segmented modularity, enhancing evolvability, we harness a sophisticated social technology which sends minds off in all directions in search of useful truths. Sadly, monkey-brain consensus-status circuits tend to get in the way.
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For now. Leadership at all levels is preoccupied with the question of how to harness that for nobler ends.
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Replying to @0xa59a2d @Outsideness and
Who can forget Obama's noble new mission for NASA - making Muslims feel good about ScienceTM. "You see the level of trust, honesty and rationality among the tiny cognitive elite dedicated to finding inhuman truths? We can make everyone just like that! Free ice-cream for all!"
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Mathlets squealing about how much they fucking love science as propaganda for their soy-based equalist ideology goes back 250 years. Le enlightenment - a thoroughly reddit-tier endeavour.
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The positive aspect of the Enlightenment is it destroyed the last remnants of the Christian feudal order. The negative aspect is that it has enslaved people to the so-called ‘Real’.
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If you don't like reality, you should see the stupid shit monkeys flee to instead.
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