WizardMask

Most of the people I talk to these days have bachelor's degrees, many in STEM fields. They all value education and expertise, but I often feel like their understanding of that value is a bit shallow or compartmentalized. Political conversations in particular often seem poorly grounded, based on unreliable information or competing speculation, with no framework for distinguishing the good from the bad. This feels very different from conversations I typically see between scientists about science, or the one time recently when I talked to someone with a Ph.D. and M.D.

I hope that's clear enough.

For the sake of convenience, I'm going to use a parody of science for my examples. Suppose the universe is actually a many-dimensional Platonic embodiment of a pizza bagel. It began in a mystic oven, which puffed it into being with spicy tomato sauce, extra cheese, mushrooms, onions, and bell peppers. Here on Earth, scientists observe these features very indirectly.

If someone posited all of this, except that they proposed the wrong variety of cheese, we would say their explanation is 'almost correct'. It would be more correct than the current Big Bang theory. What notion of distance are we using? From my experience, it seems like this concept (or maybe class of concepts) is used pret

I'd like to learn what makes a good shareholder proposal, how to write effective ones, how to research companies to get the information I need, and what role these initiatives play in influencing corporations or other shareholders. I posted a similar request in r/UniversityOfReddit, but it looks like maybe I should have started here.

The idea is, you get what you measure. Reddit's voting system measures impulsive opinion, so we get a lot of content that caters to impulsive reactions. So, what if voting took just long enough to be clumsy? This could be either a delayed reaction to clicking, or requiring people to hold down the button for a second in order to vote.

I'd particularly like a survey course in contracts and licenses, but I'm not going to be picky when University of Reddit doesn't have a single law course listed.