09-02-2023, 03:59 AM
I know that there are many questions surrounding things like whether or not we live in a complete post truth era, the efficacy of the empirical redpill and our current ability to leverage truth to our benefit. However, over on X I have long argued for some kind of platform that hosts and aggregates many different kinds of “redpilled statistics”.
I feel that in the 2016 era, these kinds of stat postings were a lot more prevalent on X than now, however I think this has begun to change very recently and we are now seeing them appear more again.
I think that the building of repositories of knowledge for both our use and to point people towards to give them empirical proof of certain situations would be useful.
The transformation of truth into a visualization of material reality at a zoomed out level, that both is easy to “see” what is happening/has/will likely happen and provides an enhanced clarity for understanding/developing potential responses to the situation.
Whether this is simply a block of aggregated and sorted statistics or actual mappings of truth-space, while case dependent is an interesting question and a mapped depiction likely is far more powerful in many contexts.
Granularity is also interesting, powerful and enhances our sensing-knowing abilities, but it is possible that there is a trade off with navigation and legibility/absorption.
Also, one very interesting thing with this kind of thing is the circular relationship between people like us and those who have to power to prevent the knowing of truth. We want to know, access and share empirical stats for reasons that those who collect and disseminate them in the first place desperately want to stop/ignore. Many organizations no longer collect or publish certain kinds of data in order to obscure truth and prevent it’s runaway into the minds of the mass. It’s entirely possible that the creation of a successful stats platform to widen awareness of the truth could lead to the closing of the knowledge streams of the data that fuels it, due to its popularity and the uncovering of certain truth.
This is all just something to think about for the future and may even presently already exist.
My actual question/s are though, what statistical truth needs further capture/uncovering and dissemination?
What existing truth that needs wider dissemination could be depicted/visualized for better awareness?
I feel that in the 2016 era, these kinds of stat postings were a lot more prevalent on X than now, however I think this has begun to change very recently and we are now seeing them appear more again.
I think that the building of repositories of knowledge for both our use and to point people towards to give them empirical proof of certain situations would be useful.
The transformation of truth into a visualization of material reality at a zoomed out level, that both is easy to “see” what is happening/has/will likely happen and provides an enhanced clarity for understanding/developing potential responses to the situation.
Whether this is simply a block of aggregated and sorted statistics or actual mappings of truth-space, while case dependent is an interesting question and a mapped depiction likely is far more powerful in many contexts.
Granularity is also interesting, powerful and enhances our sensing-knowing abilities, but it is possible that there is a trade off with navigation and legibility/absorption.
Also, one very interesting thing with this kind of thing is the circular relationship between people like us and those who have to power to prevent the knowing of truth. We want to know, access and share empirical stats for reasons that those who collect and disseminate them in the first place desperately want to stop/ignore. Many organizations no longer collect or publish certain kinds of data in order to obscure truth and prevent it’s runaway into the minds of the mass. It’s entirely possible that the creation of a successful stats platform to widen awareness of the truth could lead to the closing of the knowledge streams of the data that fuels it, due to its popularity and the uncovering of certain truth.
This is all just something to think about for the future and may even presently already exist.
My actual question/s are though, what statistical truth needs further capture/uncovering and dissemination?
What existing truth that needs wider dissemination could be depicted/visualized for better awareness?