I’m a German student-to-be (I am going to start studying IT in October) and I am interested in almost anything connected with rationality, especially the self improvement, biases and “how to save the world” parts. I hope that lesswrong will be (and it already has been to a certain amount) one of the resources for (re-)shaping my thinking and acting towards a better me and a better world.
I came here, like so many others ;-), because I wanted to check out the foundations/concepts behind HPMOR and I could not just leave again. So over the last few months I visited again and again to read some of the sequences and posts.
As I am interested in science, especially physics, maths, technology and astronomy, I have a question that I would like to ask the lesswrong community:
What is a fast and secure way of determining the trustworthiness of scientists and scientific papers?
I ask this because there is a lot of pseudoscience and poorly done science out there which often isn’t easy to distinguish from unconventional/disrupting science (at least not for me).
Hi,
I’m a German student-to-be (I am going to start studying IT in October) and I am interested in almost anything connected with rationality, especially the self improvement, biases and “how to save the world” parts. I hope that lesswrong will be (and it already has been to a certain amount) one of the resources for (re-)shaping my thinking and acting towards a better me and a better world.
I came here, like so many others ;-), because I wanted to check out the foundations/concepts behind HPMOR and I could not just leave again. So over the last few months I visited again and again to read some of the sequences and posts.
As I am interested in science, especially physics, maths, technology and astronomy, I have a question that I would like to ask the lesswrong community: What is a fast and secure way of determining the trustworthiness of scientists and scientific papers? I ask this because there is a lot of pseudoscience and poorly done science out there which often isn’t easy to distinguish from unconventional/disrupting science (at least not for me).
all the best Viper