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I think of it in terms of error correction: all fields where progress is possible allow us to identify and correct errors.

Empirical fields use facts. In empirical fields, error identification involves finding a discrepancy between theories and observation.

I’d consider aesthetics and economics at least partly empirical since you can make testable predictions. You can test an economic policy, for example, and see whether its predictions match (correspond to) outcomes. In music, things can sound unpleasant.

No worries :-). Yeah, this is the part that confuses me about correspondence:

Which fields (apart from science) have "facts", and which consist merely of useful/adapted knowledge?

For instance, are there musical facts, economic facts, aesthetic facts, etc?

Fixed as of bd7c1b6.

There’s an encoding bug affecting title previews.

Done, see #3413.

I don’t know anyone on Veritula. Can I still join?

Yes! Start by chiming in on one of the existing discussions or creating a new discussion. People will likely contribute.

If you have a topic you’d rather discuss in private, with a select few, make your discussion private. No one except the people you invite and admins will see it.

You can even have productive discussions by yourself. Not sure what to make for dinner? Want to move but not sure where? Start a discussion, submit some ideas, criticisms, and counter-criticisms, and see which ideas remain without any pending criticisms.

You’ll gain clarity to make rational decisions.

Some things wrong with flouride:
https://x.com/ChrisMasterjohn/status/1853076325067591812?s=20

Valid

Benjamin suggests making it clearer that you can use Veritula by yourself.

Sorry for the late reply. I don’t know. I don’t think the aim of math is correspondence to physical facts like in science. But maybe it’s correspondence to mathematical facts.

Since this criticism (having to pay federal income tax) is true of any US state, I wouldn’t hold it against Nevada specifically unless you wish to rule out the US as a whole.

What’s wrong with fluoride?

I’ve heard good things about New Hampshire in this regard. I think they have no compulsory schooling.

… I am for eating food that grows without human intervention.

I don’t think that’s possible unless you go deep into a forest somewhere and eat some wild berries you find (which is dangerous anyway). You’d die trying.

GMOs are a marvel of food engineering. But ‘GMO’ as a concept isn’t coherent anyway since people have been genetically modifying foods through selective breeding for millennia. There’s virtually no food that isn’t genetically modified. That’s a good thing. For example, ‘natural’ bananas are a pain in the ass because they have seeds you need to remove before eating. Those bananas are also tiny. https://youtu.be/VRbITN4qlRs?t=121

You seem to think that whatever’s ‘natural’ is good. That’s not the case. I think you’d do well to avoid organic foods and specifically seek out GMO foods:

https://news.immunologic.org/p/gmos-and-genetic-engineering-are

GMOs are great outside of mass starvation, too. If we can genetically modify foods to be better for us, why wouldn’t we?

I have implemented 1-4. Give it a try. I think 5 is out of scope for now but I may revisit it at some point. If auto-closing asterisks are a problem at the start of a line (when making lists), use a hyphen instead.

On second thought, implementing a proper text editor would take more work than I initially realized, and is far beyond the scope of what Benjamin is requesting anyway. I can revisit this idea later.

I can take this opportunity to replace manual markdown with a proper text editor. Then there’s no need for autopaired brackets.

The editor will need to support:

• Automatic links to ideas like #123
• Links to @mentions like @dennis-hackethal
• Safe link formatting
• Disabling of turbo links
• Namespaced footnotes
• Custom blockquote format
• Protection against XSS
• Retention of formatting when pasting

I can take this opportunity to replace manual markdown with a proper text editor. Then there’s no need for autopaired brackets.

The editor will need to support:

• Automatic links to ideas like #123
• Links to @mentions like @dennis-hackethal
• Safe link formatting
• Disabling of turbo links
• Namespaced footnotes
• Custom blockquote format
• Protection against XSS

… it is simply a matter of tradition.

Another answer suggests that “We are following a tradition that came from British law of having trials decided by volunteers…” (emphasis mine).

So while having a jury may be tradition, the force part might not be tradition but relatively new.

Making something voluntary doesn’t necessarily make it a profession. I buy sandwiches voluntarily, that doesn’t mean I work in that field.

Well, at least this response is an honest confession of one of the (potentially) true motivations behind jury duty…

It’s not clear to me that force is cheaper. On the contrary, force causes friction. Dealing with people who don’t want to be there results in additional overhead that may be hidden/not reflected in numbers.

[Force is] cheaper than paying jurors their market rate for their time.

Source

Force reduces legitimacy because there’s a greater risk of abuse and bias in jury selection.