Abstract Activist SE

09/04/2023

360 Burning Man! 🔥
Check it out, it’s like you are there!
Finally got around to editing my 2022 footage.
Wishing a safe journey back to all of my friends stuck out there this year.

This was filmed just before I sat down to conduct interviews. Check out the channel!patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AbstractActivistTwitter: https://twitter...

02/05/2023

I'm joined by Reid (Cordial Curiosity), David (Sound Epistemology), Jon (Quality Questions), Lisa (The Road to Reflection), and Chucky (I Hear You) to review...

06/08/2022

SE in the future.

05/11/2022

I met up with Mark Solomon from the show, Being Reasonable, at Purdue University for a little SE!

04/05/2022

Finally meeting Cordial Curiosity in real life!!!

03/23/2022

Someone made a clip of my "Box of Truth" thought experiment. I find it to be especially helpful if someone is resistant to hypotheticals or unable to generate disconfirmation criteria for their beliefs. Check it out here:

The Box of Truth thought experiment is used in conversations to help participants navigate unconscious biases that may obstruct their thought processes.Clip ...

03/06/2022

I aspire to be more like Carl.

We kill each other, or threaten to kill each other, in part, I think, because we are afraid we might not ourselves know the truth, that someone else with a different doctrine might have a closer approximation to the truth. Our history is in part a battle to the death of inadequate myths. If I can’t convince you, I must kill you. That will change your mind. You are a threat to my version of the truth, especially the truth about who I am and what my nature is. The thought that I may have dedicated my life to a lie, that I might have accepted a conventional wisdom that no longer, if it ever did, corresponds to the external reality, that is a very painful realization. I will tend to resist it to the last. I will go to almost any lengths to prevent myself from seeing that the worldview that I have dedicated my life to is inadequate. I’m putting this in personal terms so that I don’t say “you,” so that I’m not accusing anyone of an attitude, but you understand that this is not a mea culpa; I’m trying to describe a psychological dynamic that I think exists, and it’s important and worrisome.

-Carl Sagan, editor Ann Druyan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

02/11/2022

Would this debate have gone better with SE instead?
'Student confronts vegan about indigenous culture' w/ Earthling Ed | Street Epistemology Review

Reid (Cordial Curiosity), Nathan (Abstract Activist), Michael (Live Well), Will (Inspire Reflection), Janosch, and Jon (Quality Questions) review a debate be...

02/05/2022

Cupping Therapy. Does it work the way we think it does?
Street Epistemology Review

I'm joined by Reid (Cordial Curiosity), Michael (LiveWell), Janosch, Will (Deviant Robot), Bob (Mortgage Hill Musings) to discuss my conversation with Nick a...

01/31/2022

So the word “epistemological” appeared on live TV this week…
As well as a brief mention of confidence scales.
See Trump Denialism Debunked By Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber for a special conversation building off of the lessons people can learn from the new political sa...

01/22/2022

‘Raena Believes that Extraterrestrials are Here to Help Us’ | Street Epistemology Review

I am joined by Reid (Cordial Curiosity), Nathan (Abstract Activist) Will (DeviantRobot), Matt, and Janosch to review my conversation with Raena about extrate...