If anything it looks like Russia's campaign against Ukrainian civilians has intensified recently. FPV drones targeting farmers in Donetsk Oblast. MLRS shelling of Kherson. The killing of civilians in… (View Post)

Yes. People react to incentives. We have to provide better incentives to people to support development in their areas. (View Post)

Sure. Truthiness was a concept that came to prominence during the, now much lauded, period that George W Bush was President. I feel like the process has accelerated and that we've tipped over the edg… (View Post)

One of the sad things about this is that it puts a lot of knowledge about the past that is true (but weird and surprising) into the, "you've got to be kidding, AI has made that up," categor… (View Post)

There's so much of that sort of stuff going around. Historical stories with just enough truthiness to draw you in. We have an epistemological problem with establishing truth that has become markedly … (View Post)