Hypothesis Discovery

I earlier wrote an idea that there can even be compensation for people to record their opinions so that those may be available for analysis for government, hopefully for a better one than we have now.   This would provide the discourse analysts a richer repository to study to find context and settings for other discourses.   It would also make their job much more difficult.   Context and setting are easier to construct when you have very little information about either.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/14/discourse-analysis-of-a-diary-or-blog/

Panic buying is rational when we trust the neurotics.

Science itself is saying we can't trust the application of established science.   Every problem must require a new practice or technology.   We no longer trust that existing practices and technologies can successfully solve a novel situation.   The ultimate conclusion is that we need to be neurotic all the time and about all things.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/13/follow-the-neurotic/

The important thing is to keep the government in the business of solving problems it discovers.   Government funded science is serving this need by providing the new problems to solve and the new solutions that would solve them.   Meanwhile, there exists other science by concerned scientists who are not funded directly by government.  If this outside science contradicts the government, then we dismiss that science as misinformation because it did not come from government.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/12/discourse-between-analysis-synthesis-and-observation/

I think the actual stable new normal will become apparent in about 2023, or about two years from now.   The possibilities are all over the map, but ultimately it will come down to the resolving the oxymoronic concept of social distancing.   Either we become social again, or we distance.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/11/covid19-worker-exodus/

Mandating an increased minimum hourly rate simultaneously demands a increased productivity.   Wages have a tendency of making work when work is not needed or before that work is better performed in order to sustain the worker's hourly productivity.   Also, the wages discourages the practice of pre-emptive learning or just waiting around for when the precise skills are absolutely needed.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/10/raising-the-minimum-productivity/

One presumption of autism is the lacking of cognitive ability.   Another may be that the cognitive ability is there but would stop developing or regress due to the inability to communicate with the world through language or through action.   It is incredible that the cognitive ability would continue to thrive within that circumstance.   The mind continued to develop and mature.  I want to know how this is possible.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/09/challenged-seeds-still-attempt-to-thrive/

The problem posed in the spell-to-communicate approach for autism is a broader problem for all of us.   We are all spelling to communicate for increasingly larger proportions of our communications with others.   For all of us, this introduces the doubts that the thoughts and ideas are truly our own.   The slowness of spelling things out gives the opportunity for someone or something to insert their thoughts into our consciousness.  As that happens, we lose the diversity of thought we once enjoyed when we relied much more on in person verbal conversations.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/08/broader-questions-concerning-assisted-spelling/

This post discusses a video at this link: https://thehighwire.com/videos/an-autism-miracle/

We do not acknowledge an intelligence that is too fast or too slow, and we don't acknowledge one that is not cooperative.   Instead we acknowledge intelligence that is at the high end of normal intelligence: those who take at least 30 minutes to finish the test and get close to 80 percent of the questions right.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/07/intelligence-non-speaker-or-autism/

Modern medicine grew out of older medicine by changing the focus from the individual's wellbeing to the treatment of each particular type of disease that might affect any person.    We are entering a new era of post-modern medicine that treats certain ideas like diseases.   Any ideas that conflict with modern medicine must be diseased ideas.    It is the job of post-modern medicine to isolate, quarantine, and eventually excise those contrary ideas.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/06/medical-treatment-for-ideas/

The hide and seek experiment started with a blank slate for the agents.   They had no prior conditioning and can learn entirely from the situation they are in.   Something very different would happen if the agents were born from successful parents but find themselves in an environment different from what they parents excelled in.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hypothesis-discovery.com/2021/05/05/artificial-intelligence-playing-hide-and-seek/