Even then, you can probably trust a source to not lie, but you can’t trust them to never get fooled.

Quite the conundrum. I work better alone, but I want to go far.

If they’re disagreeing about objective reality

I always enjoy hearing about how people come to believe what they do. There’s pretty much always a logical basis for it and the difference just comes down to their heuristics failing at one particular point and cascading.

You don’t eat at home?

You’ll have to clarify what you mean by nutrients. I’m seeing some disagreements in the comments about whether things are nutritious or not because they’re using different definitions.

E.g. are you looking for high Calorie? Proteins and healthy fats? Large quantity of micronutrients? Large diversity of micronutrients? Or something else?

I got this too, and it basically immediately disappeared again. Our admins are doing a pretty good job of handling this kind of spam.

Honestly, if my career didn’t rely on it, I would entirely skip the publishing part of science. It takes so much more work to communicate your findings than to make them. Of course, that doesn’t help the cause since no one else will be able to build off of my work if I don’t share it.

It especially sucks when you’re having a nice conversation with someone, then OP deleted their post, putting an end to all of those conversations. Or if someone posts some useful information that you want to save for later.

The OP should have the right to delete things they put up, but they shouldn’t be able to delete everything associated with it too.

For some reason, I always thought his main contribution from his PhD was the volume thresholds for maintenance and adaptation.

In any case, are we judging his value as a researcher or as a YouTuber? If it’s the former, I’d rather look at his publishing history rather than a thesis. Soloman mentioned that the school he graduated from wasn’t a particularly high ranking school, and that’s evidenced by how they were able to let this pass. Knowing how your school works, why would you put any effort at all into what is essentially just a formality for graduation? Where I went for grad school, the examiners will read your work properly, but most people still only put in the minimal effort for it. Our efforts mostly go into papers that actually get read. Your thesis is never expected to see the light of day again after graduation.

If we’re judging him for his value as a YouTuber, then we should be judging his YouTube content. As far as that goes, he’s pretty much just preaching the same thing as every other fitness YouTuber. It’s just packaged differently. The one thing he does that stands out from others is explaining how science and the scientific method works when putting exercise science papers into context. I can understand his credentials being relevant here if you’re a non-expert, but as a scientist myself, I can vouch for the soundness of his explanations.

Jeff’s response was definitely disappointing though. Insulting Soloman does not align with the wholesome character of him that was painted in my head.

Many pay a lot more without ever learning this lesson. I’d say it was money well spent.

If you’re able to give precise instructions on what to do to resolve the issue, then couldn’t you also automate it and make it seamless from the user’s perspective?

To accomplish that, you would need power. In this capitalist society, power comes from money.

I don’t think its ever been implemented, so probably not. You wouldn’t want to trust everyone the same way independent of their distance in the trust network. It would definitely be easy to exploit if you did with just a single bad actor and one gullible person. It might even be valuable to assign different weights to each of your direct trust connections.

Web of Trust in this context would be if you mark people you personally know as trusted because you know they’re real people, and they also mark people they know, and so on. If a stranger is trusted by someone your trust, then you also indirectly trust them. This indirect trust can occur over two links as described or more. With enough people vouching for each other, you can eventually get a web that covers the whole country.

You’re putting a lot more trust into CDs than I ever would.

One thing that would be nice is if we can know that we’re actually talking to people from the same country as us and that the different accounts represent different people. But I think something like a web of trust is preferable for that purpose.

unlike with legal download sites where if it’s delisted, it’s completely gone even for downloads you already bought

I don’t understand the difference. Can’t you just download it when you buy it? They can’t take away files on your device.

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The worry happens when you’re uncertain if you can do something about the situation. Certainty brings a lot of peace of mind if you can manage it.

These heuristics are colloquially known as “common sense”. People keep using that term like it’s the axiomatic basis of any reasoning they do.