Contributors: Be Half Accessible
We intended this "web forum" to be a cross between a group blog and a conversation among experts. We want to both attract readers to highlight our cause, and form a community discussing our shared interest. This may not turn out not to be viable, but until we give up, let me ask contributors to help in this way: make half your posts accessible to a wide audience.
It is great to have formal discussion of details of epistemology or Bayesian theory, but if that is mainly what readers see, most of them will leave. And honestly our commitment to overcoming bias is a bit suspect if we just talk generalities and rarely grapple with specific biases and hard cases. So please, I ask, let us post as often on accessible papers, news, or events that illustrate or embody important biases and corrections.
Oh, and please, delete needless words; a screenful of text or less is ideal.
For samples of my thought, "Google" my name. I am author of "The Origin of Social Dysfunction".
In short, my position is that the discovery of "Truth" requires tracking objective indices. The (level of "objective reality" we understand (internalize) determiness our individual 'rationality' and behavior.
Humanity remains trapped in carefully instilled and instituted 'belief systems' that block the gaining of objective knowledge by the individual and functions to enable and maintain authoritarian control over populations. This pathology has remained a constant throughout human history, maintaining endless conflict and misdirection. This must be corrected if the destruction of civilization and Earth's carrying capacity is to be averted.
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I agree some some ideas need more space to explain fully than others. But even the most technical papers are usually summarized in a one hundred word abstract. In ordinary conversation authors do not usually launch into fifteen minute monologues explaining their latest idea; they offer shorter summaries in the hope luring others into more detailed discussion.
Ideas that need a paper-length to explain should be written in a paper-length, and then posted as a paper somewhere; they should not be published as paper-length blog posts. Instead post a summary of the paper and point readers seeking details to the paper. I have often written short essays and posted them to my web site, and then posted a summary to a blog.
Also, most ideas can be broken into parts. I have been posting here on some difficult ideas, but have broken them into parts, and make one post for each part.