Conjecture Institute

Register for our upcoming online conference When: June 17th Advances in Physics Attendees are welcome to ask questions, and all those who register are free to come and go as they please. The event will be recorded and posted on YouTube. conjectureinstitute.org/events/advance…

Read Conjecture Institute Fellow @arjunkhemani’s essay Freedom Engineered in Code x.com/arjunkhemani/s…

Throughout history, freedom has always depended on the tools we had to protect it. The printing press made free speech possible. Before Gutenberg, ideas were chained to scribes and priests, locked away behind the authority of institutions. Printing blew apart that monopoly. Knowledge escaped. Authority collapsed under scale. The monopoly of ideas was gone forever. ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @arjunkhemani

Watch Conjecture Institute Fellow @Ray_S_Percival's documentary Liberty Loves Reason youtube.com/watch?v=81i9L0…

Language, Writing, & Criticism When we commit our idea to paper, it can be critically evaluated by others. What problems does it solve? Is it coherent? Does it enjoy some arbitrary privilege over their rivals? ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @Ray_S_Percival

Learn more about Conjecture Institute Senior Scientist Vlatko Vedral's latest book Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics vlatkovedral.com/books/portals-…

My new book is about the next revolution in physics. It explains in an accessible manner what I believe to be five key ‘thought experiments’ that will provide us with clues about what our next fundamental laws should be like. Each central chapter is about one such experiment - its motivations and how it will allow us to open a window on the future theory of physics. ~Conjecture Institute Senior Scientist Vlatko Vedral

Listen to the entire conversation between Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf, Advisor @peterboghossian, & @ReidN Fermi Paradox, Ideological Contagion, & More youtube.com/watch?v=qPvTbf…

The Battle of Ideas and Error-Correction The society of the West is not the society that makes the right decisions all the time, it's the society that corrects errors. There is no limit to the size of error that we can make. The important thing is how good we are at correcting errors. Many non-Western societies don't try to correct errors, they want to entrench them. They don't recognize that there are going to errors in everything they do. That is their weakness. It is why we already have the tools to win the battle. We've got what it takes. ~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf with Advisor @peterboghossian & @ReidN

Wow. This is @DanielJHannan at his best.

Watch Conjecture Institute Advisor @DanielJHannan's entire talk for @TFASorg TFAS Annual Conference: Developing Courageous Citizens Featuring Daniel Hannan, Lord of Kingsclere youtube.com/watch?v=KR4ItL…

Liberty for almost everyone until a blink ago was almost unimaginable. How extraordinarily privileged we are to live in a time and in a country where the government is constrained, where the people in charge don't just get to make up the rules as they go... ~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DanielJHannan for @TFASorg

Interesting...

Watch Conjecture Institute Ambassador @ToKTeacher's video Karl Popper's "The Myth of the Framework" Sections IV to VI. "The Critical Method": deep dive youtube.com/watch?v=pXb-S6…

How to Think About Experts Expertise is absolutely real. Someone who knows a lot or almost everything in a particular field, whereas a layperson knows much less. The point is that you ought never give over your critical faculties to an expert. You want to develop an explanation of how the expert error corrects and whether that meets your own standards. ~Conjecture Institute Ambassador @ToKTeacher

Read Conjecture Institute Fellow @CABedardPhysics's paper The ABC of Deutsch–Hayden Descriptors mdpi.com/2624-960X/3/2/…

Physics Is Local ...locality holds even in the face of entanglement and Bell’s theorem. Today, most researchers in quantum foundations are still convinced not only that a local description of quantum systems has not yet been provided, but that it cannot exist. The main goal of this paper is to address this misconception... ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @CABedardPhysics

Conjecture Institute Fellow @tomhyde_ previews his book about Wonderism: "I'm trying to beautify knowledge and knowledge creation."

Maybe the most powerful concept in The West is that individuals are the authors of their own lives. But kids are taught the opposite until they are “ready”. “That’s because they’re ignorant.” Consider this - when training to become livened doctor, fresh MD graduates are given the opportunity to make patient care decisions from the get-go. It’s recognized that making the clinical decision is an essential context for becoming a competent physician. Now of course, these fresh MDs are supervised, they aren’t ignored to sink or swim on their own. And dangerous decisions are corrected, ideally with zero moralizing, just explanations. And a good supervising doc will let small mistakes, small deviations that are clinically inconsequential, pass in order to preserve the trainee’s autonomy, sense of ownership, and commitment to getting better. If this system can work in life-or-death situations, it can work for toddlers. The difficulty with toddlers is that it’s nearly impossible to explain in words why a bad decision is dangerous, but fortunately there are other ways to preserve autonomy without compromising safety, health, etc. These alternatives require parental creativity, thinking up options that appeal to the toddler just as much but in fun ways, etc. If a kid has a strong sense of self sovereignty as a child, I wager they get very good at understanding and avoiding the dangers that are typically pointed to as justifications for coercing them. ~Conjecture Institute Cofounder @astupple

@isonomia_8 We’re working on a constructor theory course! Also, check out Chiara’s book, The Science of Can and Can’t 🙂

@ConjectureInst I am neither a philosopher nor a smart person. Please explain the significance of constructor theory to the common people. Thank you. youtu.be/SVmjKHkgxis?si…

Origin of the Term 'Constructor' While a universal Turing machine can simulate an ecosystem with cells reproducing and undergoing natural selection, it cannot itself be programmed to create a replica of itself. Von Neumann thought that we needed to treat more general programmable machines. Constructors were used to label this more general class of objects that could perform physical transformations (including self-replication), not just computations. ~Conjecture Institute Senior Scientist Chiara Marletto