Confronting Impossible Futures
Contrast this situation to the “intuitive” understanding one is supposed to gain by playing with a Victor-style computer simulation. One might make “discoveries”, but one is never certain:
- Does this “discovery” apply to all parameter choices?
- What is the actual quantitative content of this discovery? If some relationship appears to hold — is this rel
Evan Miller • Don’t Kill Math: Comments on Bret Victor’s Scientific Agenda – Evan Miller
a fact-based understanding of topics like childhood vaccinations, nuclear power, and DDT is still extremely difficult today. The memory of insufficient regulation has created automatic mistrust and fear, which blocks the ability to hear data-driven arguments. I will try anyway.
Ola Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Yet even here, shadows persist. If the interlocutor is silicon, what becomes of mentorship? If judgment is a distributed function, how do we teach discernment? These are not rhetorical flourishes. They are open questions. But perhaps the future of education will depend less on answers and more on attunement, on cultivating in students the sensibili... See more