scientific method
Request: a step-by-step process of asking a question, forming a guess, testing it with an experiment, and checking the results to learn how the world works.
Science
level: smoking is harmful
By request. Also calibrated: smoking causes lung cancer.
Hippocratic oath
Request: The Hippocratic Oath is an ancient medical code that asks doctors to help patients, avoid harm, and protect their privacy.
critical thinking
Request: the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
physical immortality
Request: Is it a real potential or just an attachment to physical experience? Bryan Johnson has dedicated his life to it, devoid of any spiritual context.
the universe
Defined as "the totality of existence", or everything that exists, everything that has existed, and everything that will exist -- wikipedia.
Isaac Newton
"English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed" -- wikipedia. Calibrated at 499 in TvF.
greenhouse gas theory of global warming
Request: I was taught this in school, and it seemed very logical and compelling. But Doc has it calibrated as false in TvF, which blows my mind. Would appreciate a confirmation.
mathematics
"the science of structure, order, and relation that... deals with logical reasoning and quantitative calculation, and its development has involved an increasing degree of idealization and abstraction of its subject matter" -- britannica.
placebo effect
A phenomenon in which some people experience a benefit after the administration of an inactive "look-alike" substance or treatment. This substance, or placebo, has no known medical effect -- verywellmind.
Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
Priority request. A "system's consciousness (what it is like subjectively) is conjectured to be mathematically described by the system's causal structure (what it is like objectively)" -- wikipedia.
surrogate pregnancy
Priority request. "an arrangement where a woman, known as the surrogate or gestational carrier, carries and delivers a baby for intended parents who cannot carry a pregnancy themselves" -- Brave AI.
T/F: man has set foot on the moon
Request: Some people believe it was faked.
Artemis II Moon Mission
Priority request: NASA's first crewed lunar flyby in 50 years. "The first crewed Artemis flight marks a key step toward long‑term return to the Moon and future missions to Mars."
central nervous system
The part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord, the retina and optic nerve, and the olfactory nerve and epithelia -- wikipedia.