Also: how do you identify a work as peer reviewed?

  • sircac@lemmy.world
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    The main point is to be able to handle uncertainties in a normal basis, the greyness of reality, despite the temptation of blacks and whites of our minds.

    For sure it costs a lot. The consideration of the superposition of possible truths and the weight of potential biases is a huge burden without granted full coverage, but allows you to accumulate a landscape of plausibility of things: yes, is not 100% precise and is still built by personal prejudices but, with a systematic acceptance of new bits of information regardless of how comfortable they are, it can grow a mostly reliable understanding of reality with a variable amount of temporary uncertainty on some facts… and you can still convert greys into quasi-b&w once they reach a decent amount of independent evidences, you now, to free a bit your RAM.

    PS: Peer review is neither 100% perfect, is just more solid.

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      Ok, so, OBVIOUSLY, you know absolutely zero There’s not even a such thing as ‘consensual ass spankings’ so I don’t even know why you brought it up.

      If OP wants more oreos in his cereal? Fine, so be it. But that doesn’t change the fact that you fuckin suck at Diddy Kong Racing.

      I swear man.