Teaching ignorance directly would require an honest assessment of things like religion, central banking, chiropractors, mathematical ability and pharmaceuticals. This would require strong tenure protection for an individual teacher, or it would likely devolve into trivialities and historical anecdotes that would lead students to assume that important questions are generally irrelevant or settled in modern times. One idea is that education exists to convey the certainty by which things are known, and to prepare students for critical thinking that will improve their estimates of factual certainty with time. Another idea is that education should firstly prepare students to be productive citizens. While these ideas are not always in conflict, knowledge and critical thinking will not be tolerated when money, ideology or power can be gained or preserved through ignorance.
Citation? I'd like to see a study of cognitive development that defines consciousness and shows the time course at which it is activated. Again, what's the evidence?
An interesting question, actually: they claim 99% of the brain's diverse cell types in their tissue, which would mean that they're getting all but maybe one of the (roughly) 60-80 cell types in retina. The diversity of these cell types varies by >1% between species, and probably among species. Color blindness is one example of this diversity. Would a brain with a cyclopean retina really have almost exactly the same diversity of cell types in retina, LGN and visual cortex? This, along with the press release preceding the data release, makes me wonder about the authenticity of these claims.
One scientific debate, if the data holds up, is whether this tissue can be called a brain or not. Is there another example of a brain that doesn't process sensory information? If not, how can you believe that this is a brain? What new definition of brain must be proposed in order to call this thing a brain?
Maybe not magical, but what's the evidence that consciousness doesn't get turned on like a switch? How fast would its emergence have to be? Different cognitive abilities come and go at different times in life, but consciousness is thought to be more constant than that. Without a good way to measure it, it's difficult to declare its absence due to lack of similarity to a behaving adult. And cockroaches may be conscious, but it's OK to kill them anyway.
Same here. I also hope that people will think of stuff like this when they're discussing new laws, and presupposing that, despite questionable language, they'll be enforced sensibly.
Sure it's safe, but it's not legal. There was a complaint and the guy was cited for breaking the law. Perhaps this case will provide an impetus for legalizing the practice of shooting drones with shotguns. I appreciate the guy's civil disobedience, but it's hard to blame the cops for enforcing the law.
It would be profoundly stupid if any of it could be traced to one person, but that's not how big corporate partnerships work. When you are a corporation you are not going to get arrested, and your lawyers will indeed advise you to risk killing people if the added revenue is likely to surpass the payout costs.
Step 1: Distract driver with advertisements
Step 2: Collect revenue from auto repair shops and lawyers
Step 3: Collect federal grant money to work with insurance companies to improve safety
Most good journals already publish a lay summary, and often a description of significance aimed at a wider audience. Sometimes even a video. That leaves us with the recommendation to either force the scientist to draft a press release OR let science journalists communicate the discovery. This is not helpful.
An average statistician would not likely have identified an error here. Their extrapolation was intended to be novel, and part of the results. An average statistician can catch an average statistical lie, but Markus Meister is no average statistician.
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Teaching ignorance directly would require an honest assessment of things like religion, central banking, chiropractors, mathematical ability and pharmaceuticals. This would require strong tenure protection for an individual teacher, or it would likely devolve into trivialities and historical anecdotes that would lead students to assume that important questions are generally irrelevant or settled in modern times. One idea is that education exists to convey the certainty by which things are known, and to prepare students for critical thinking that will improve their estimates of factual certainty with time. Another idea is that education should firstly prepare students to be productive citizens. While these ideas are not always in conflict, knowledge and critical thinking will not be tolerated when money, ideology or power can be gained or preserved through ignorance.
Citation? I'd like to see a study of cognitive development that defines consciousness and shows the time course at which it is activated. Again, what's the evidence?
An interesting question, actually: they claim 99% of the brain's diverse cell types in their tissue, which would mean that they're getting all but maybe one of the (roughly) 60-80 cell types in retina. The diversity of these cell types varies by >1% between species, and probably among species. Color blindness is one example of this diversity. Would a brain with a cyclopean retina really have almost exactly the same diversity of cell types in retina, LGN and visual cortex? This, along with the press release preceding the data release, makes me wonder about the authenticity of these claims.
One scientific debate, if the data holds up, is whether this tissue can be called a brain or not. Is there another example of a brain that doesn't process sensory information? If not, how can you believe that this is a brain? What new definition of brain must be proposed in order to call this thing a brain?
Maybe not magical, but what's the evidence that consciousness doesn't get turned on like a switch? How fast would its emergence have to be? Different cognitive abilities come and go at different times in life, but consciousness is thought to be more constant than that. Without a good way to measure it, it's difficult to declare its absence due to lack of similarity to a behaving adult. And cockroaches may be conscious, but it's OK to kill them anyway.
Well if you piss on a cop, you don't get charged with "urinating on a peace officer" or similar.
Same here. I also hope that people will think of stuff like this when they're discussing new laws, and presupposing that, despite questionable language, they'll be enforced sensibly.
Brilliant! Let's hope a jury will see it that way.
From TFA: "Hillview Police detective Charles McWhirter says you can't fire your gun in the city"
Those were the ordinances that the guy was charged with violating.
Sure it's safe, but it's not legal. There was a complaint and the guy was cited for breaking the law. Perhaps this case will provide an impetus for legalizing the practice of shooting drones with shotguns. I appreciate the guy's civil disobedience, but it's hard to blame the cops for enforcing the law.
Where do you think people in West Virginia go for fun?
city folk is city folk
Yes, the guy seems to have a legitimate complaint that went uninvestigated. That is unfortunate.
The shooter lives in a city where you can't legally fire guns into the air. Is that the law you'd like to see changed here?
What's on the memory card is irrelevant. You can't fire guns into the air in the city. At anything.
Nope, it would have been illegal to fire at a bird.
Except that you can't legally shoot ducks or anything else out of the sky in the city.
-1 Disagree. You're on here all the time, AC!
Exactly. Johnny 5 could write a better list than this one. He'd see right through Her cheesy emotional curiosities.
It would be profoundly stupid if any of it could be traced to one person, but that's not how big corporate partnerships work. When you are a corporation you are not going to get arrested, and your lawyers will indeed advise you to risk killing people if the added revenue is likely to surpass the payout costs.
Step 1: Distract driver with advertisements Step 2: Collect revenue from auto repair shops and lawyers Step 3: Collect federal grant money to work with insurance companies to improve safety
Most good journals already publish a lay summary, and often a description of significance aimed at a wider audience. Sometimes even a video. That leaves us with the recommendation to either force the scientist to draft a press release OR let science journalists communicate the discovery. This is not helpful.
An average statistician would not likely have identified an error here. Their extrapolation was intended to be novel, and part of the results. An average statistician can catch an average statistical lie, but Markus Meister is no average statistician.
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