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Read Conjecture Institute Cofounder @astupple's essay The relationship-building power of explanations takingchildrenseriously.com/the-relationsh…

The real cost of enforcement is our relationship. When I genuinely persuade my child, I become a trusted consultant and even a defender of his interests. When I force him, I become an adversary who needs to be avoided, deceived or otherwise circumvented. My child needs to put his guard up when I’m around. ~Conjecture Institute Cofounder @astupple

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Listen to the entire conversation between Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf & Founding Donor @naval David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1 youtube.com/watch?v=YyxepL…

Criticism beyond experimental tests "A soon as you get outside science - for example, in mathematics or philosophy - then testability is not available in the same sense that testing is used in science. There are many other methods of criticism. Criticizability is the more general thing. If a theory immunizes itself against criticism...it can be rejected." "...it's the criticizability that's the important piece, not necessarily the testability. Although the closer you get to classic science, the more you look for experiments that can test it." ~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf & Founding Donor @naval

Get Conjecture Institute's fourth book The Farthest Reaches: Why People Are the Most Important Entities in the Universe by Conjecture Institute Ambassador Brett Hall a.co/d/0gv8Xm7T

The “unifying concept” allowing people to understand everything is a basic idea: explanatory universality. But, as I have learned, “basic” does not mean “simple”. I have spent many years now making use of this idea - that people are “universal explainers” - to pick apart a variety of problems. Rather often, my interlocutors seem a mixture of puzzled and frustrated about my focus on that basic idea. It has, therefore, at times puzzled and frustrated me that others do not see the significance of explanatory universality. This book is my attempt to remedy some of the confusion. ~Conjecture Institute Ambassador @ToKTeacher

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Seeking candidate working on quantum non-locality.

Watch the entire conversation between Conjecture Institute Senior Scientist Chiara Marletto and Fellow @maria__violaris Conservation Laws & the Future of Physics youtube.com/watch?v=JWIqXz…

We haven't thought of a theory of a universal programmable heat engine, which would be an upgrade on the way people were thinking about heat engines in the old days of classical thermodynamics. I see the universal programmable heat engine as a special case of what a universal constructor is. ~Conjecture Institute Senior Scientist Chiara Marletto with Fellow @maria__violaris

You cannot centrally plan an economy you cannot surveil. You cannot seize what you cannot see. This is why encrypted money at planetary scale is the machinery of freedom. ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @arjunkhemani

Get Conjecture Institute's fourth book The Farthest Reaches: Why People Are the Most Important Entities in the Universe, by Conjecture Institute Ambassador Brett Hall a.co/d/0aAVkarH

Watch the entire conversation between Conjecture Institute Fellow @tomhyde_ and Ambassador @ToKTeacher YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=R5gwwn… Podcast podbean.com/ew/pb-agmtu-18…

The emission of greenhouse gases does have hazards associated with it, but increased wealth decreases our vulnerability and increases our resilience to hazards. ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @tomhyde_ w/ Ambassador @ToKTeacher

Read Conjecture Institute Fellow @PaulRRobichaud's paper A local-realistic model for quantum theory arxiv.org/pdf/2010.14303

Hugh Everett's theory of the universal wave function led to the development of unitary quantum theory. Conjecture Institute Fellow @PaulRRobichaud summarizes the most important ideas entailed by the theory:

"Even if ideologies appeal to emotions...this is no insurmountable obstacle to abstract critical argument. Even the most violent and anti-intellectual ideologies are steeped in abstract theory and argument..." ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @Ray_S_Percival

Watch Conjecture Institute Fellow @dela3499's video Why Care about Epistemology? youtube.com/watch?v=3r6FIP…

Applied Epistemology If you're interested in systems that make progress, one of the things you'll want to do is compare systems in terms of: 1. limits 2. efficiency 3. speed 4. stability ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @dela3499