Arno Mosikian

a human who loves the life, the Earth, the universe and believes in omnipotence of collaborative intelligence of humanity. [Follows & RTs aren't endorsements].

[IISS News @IISS_org]

Quantum competition is shifting from laboratory breakthroughs to infrastructure governance. With the US, China and Europe pursuing distinct models of quantum statecraft, quantum technologies could fragment across competing ecosystems.

Read the latest analysis by Dongyoun Cho: https://t.co/YMbFBxHjcF

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

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[Noubar Afeyan @NoubarAfeyan]

Scientists once thought illness was caused by “miasmas,” foul vapors that drifted through the air. For centuries, they were certain that the sun rotated around the Earth. Until the 1950s, they believed lobotomies were the best way to treat mental illness.

Why did we stop believing these things?

In each case, skeptics used the scientific method to produce data that disproved the incumbent theory. They hypothesized, experimented, observed, analyzed, iterated, and then published the results, precipitating a shift in our collective understanding of the world.

Skepticism is integral to science, but this most recent wave of skepticism is different. Its loudest voices are making evidence-free claims about COVID-19, climate change, and vaccines. Presenting personal opinions as though they are facts, with no regard for experiments or data, makes a mockery of the scientific method.

It endangers our health, our national security, and our prosperity.

I wrote for TIME about why it’s so important that we defend the scientific method.

https://t.co/8xFgA4t1ov

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

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[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Leonhard Euler upon losing the use of his right eye;

"Now I will have less distraction."

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"It is only through science and art that civilization is of value."

- Henri Poincaré

[Ruben Vardanyan @RubenVardanyan_]

CALL FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELASE OF ALL ARMENIAN PRISONERS
Over 150 Global Humanitarian, Business and Political Leaders Demand Freedom of “Armenian Prisoners”

After implementing an illegal nine month-long blockade of fuel, medicine and food, on September 19th, Azerbaijan launched a bloody military offensive invading the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, resulting in hundreds of deaths and thousands of casualties. This invasion led to the forced displacement of virtually all of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians from the region. This is indisputably ethnic cleansing; much of the world agrees. Human rights groups have labeled the Azeri actions as a genocide.

As he sought to leave for Armenia, Ruben Vardanyan, leading Armenian philanthropist, humanitarian, and former State Minister, was illegally detained. His arrest is particularly concerning as his high-profile international support of Nagorno-Karabakh has made him a target of the Baku government. Ruben is among the latest residents of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh arbitrarily arrested for political reasons and illegally detained. Others include three former presidents of the Republic, Arayik Harutyunyan, Bako Sahakyan, Arkadi Ghukasyan, and other former officials, David Babayan, Levon Mnatsakanyan, David Ishkanyan, and Davit Manukyan. Many other Armenians continue to be illegally imprisoned. The negligible information on the health and well-being of these individuals is deeply concerning.

These individuals are being detained in clear violation of domestic and international law, including UN and European human rights conventions to which Azerbaijan is a party. The conditions of their detention are deeply concerning, including inadequate communications with their families, an absence of regular independent monitoring or consular access, and the denial of access to local and international lawyers. Azerbaijan must respect international legal standards and human rights on which peace and stability depend.

Every day matters for the lives of these prisoners. Any peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan must include their release.
We call on President Ilham Aliyev to release all these illegally detained individuals immediately.

Take action and sign the letter: https://t.co/GFcEuIWx5R

#FreeRuben #Freearmenianprisoners

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

We are nothing more or less than the cumulative biological and environmental luck over which we had no control that has brought us to any moment. #Determined #RobertSapolsky

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

Whatever one renounces, cannot cause pain. #HolyKural #Thirukkural by #Thiruvalluvar

[Noubar Afeyan @NoubarAfeyan]

A privilege to spend time with @amanpour and discuss the atrocities perpetrated on ethnic Armenians, and the plight of Ruben Vardanyan @cnni @AmanpourCoPBS @CNN

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[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

In all ages and amongst all peoples self-conquest has formed the underlying basis of all virtue. #MyViewOfTheWorld #ErwinSchrodinger

[Freedom House @freedomhouse]

We strongly condemn the Azerbaijani govt’s violent attacks in Nagorno-Karabakh, heightening the risk of ethnic cleansing against the region’s Armenian population.

Any attempt to forcibly change the region's demographics is illegal & unacceptable. (1/2)
https://t.co/LYgSoGNGOe

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

#HolyKural - #Thirukkural by #Thiruvalluvar

The gains of compassion are most precious; material wealth is possessed even by the despicable.

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

A favour done, not as return for another, is more valuable than heaven and earth put together. #HolyKural - #Thirukkural by #Thiruvalluvar

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

Among other things, Xenophanes may well be thinking of the widespread practice of inviting a ‘wise man’ to draft the constitutions for new colonies, or to revise existing codes of law. #The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

This is silly, he suggests, since athletic ability is of no real value to the athlete’s city: no city improves its laws or fattens its coffers by winning in the Olympics. By contrast, real benefits can accrue if the city has a wise person in charge,…

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

so that is what should be honored and rewarded. It seems clear that Xenophanes is thinking of his own role as philosopher, and that he considers it a useful one and deserving of honor​.​ The wise man contributes real benefits to the city’s political and economic prosperity.

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

Besides philosophical poems, Xenophanes wrote after-dinner lyrics, of which two survive complete. In one of these (Fragment 2) Xenophanes remarks on the mistaken values of the ​polis, ​insofar as it typically bestows great honors on those who win at the Olympic Games.​ ….

[Arno Mosikian @ArnoMoss]

Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. #TheEnchiridion by #Epictetus

[Mark Geragos @markgeragos]

Azerbaijan has no future…While the Russians use Aliyev against Armenia to force it back in Russia’s orbit, Turk nationalists fantasize of an Azeri annexation of Armenia to create a pan-ethnic Genocidal Turkey stretching Mediterranean to the Great Wall https://t.co/PlrHNxk1WP