Kelli Barr

postdoc in philosophy, former scientist, broadly interested in questions of knowledge, tech, environment, policy

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what are intuitions according to rationalists?

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@WhyJenWhy and it’s best-selling successor: The Reluctant Arborvore

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@WhyJenWhy the new paradox of tolerance

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@WhyJenWhy but without it, a thousand flower(ing tree)s cannot bloom?

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Would like to hear thoughts on Bob’s argument that the fact of complexity in biological systems precludes our attempts at (some kinds of?) inquiry, and therefore: automate science! Does that premise seem correct? #PSA2022

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throwing jokes at the yawning maw to see what gets gobbled up

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hangley gourd

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get in loser, it’s lophiiformian fall

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@DanteFenolio well hello fren

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@WhyJenWhy might be an idiosyncratic take on _best_

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@WhyJenWhy Beirut, Nantes or Bratislava. Bon Iver, Calgary or Michigan, WI. Also Andrew Bird, Pulaski at Night. Something that blurs the city/land boundary: Damien Jurado, TAQOMA (named for a city in a desert, but part of an album that tries to evoke the feeling of that landscape)

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@bayesianboy “diatomaceous, baby!”

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@WhyJenWhy pov: you see someone crack the spine of a new book and then put it back on the shelf

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@bayesianboy waiting

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@bayesianboy https://t.co/OkWMzBHojw

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@bayesianboy staged some empty boxes, catnip on standby, hid all cucumber-shaped objects. ready for the drop

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@yellow_dusk these blue hummingbirds of the Ecuadorian cloud forest agree - especially the tough lookin one with puffball socks. very good, 14/10, would try to pet

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@bayesianboy Some combo of these: a receding vista with horizon, and something delicate and ethereal inside the sphere. But maybe monochrome? That rust red is so luxurious