S2 E45 — Wildcard What Ifs and Doobie Bros Bias

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“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “In a sea of retweets and homogenized opinions, you have a chance to put something out into the world that wasn’t there before. People need to hear something that’s not being said. You’re the one to say it.” Taurus

Hi and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 45 in Season 2 of “My Pandemic Year Experiment” on this 14th day of May in the spring of 2020.

Season 1 and 2 are a two-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic and then in this unfolding pandemic year.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E44 — Celebrating Emma the Baroness Tribal Quarantine Style; S2 E43 — See What You’ve Been Missing …; S2 E42 — It Was Short and Sweet, but Heart-Felt

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E45 — Day 45 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E44 — Google Me Some Chopped Liver; S1 E43 — Desperation on Such a Summer’s Day; S1 E42 — Love on the Run

Context

My weekly Patreon publishing campaign continued with a selection of Tau from this week and one from roughly a year ago in this article:

Wildcards? What’s Normal in this Rapidly Changing Landscape?

“Being able to take a long view of things will save you from future discomfort. There are a lot of things you could take on. Consider what it would mean for your next few days and far beyond.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Sean Martin, Express, Image: Getty Images.

The Tau: Week Ending 5/13/20

Tags: Apple, Alzheimer’s, Artificial Intelligence, Brain Implants, Cancer, Climate Change, COVID-19, Fusion, Material Science, Privacy, Technology Integration

Helping you face what’s going on today and creating some of your own if/then decisions. Saving you from future discomfort by considering longer term scenarios.

Important headlines from this week’s stories pulled from our daily “Top 30 Digest” curated for you, “Fresh from the Labs. Literally bottled and set adrift from KnowWhere Atoll.”

What if … ?

COVID-19 Phase Two

- - - - ”Apple to Reopen Some U.S. Stores Next Week”
      - ”Scientists are drowning in Covid-19 research — this AI could help”

Artificial Intelligence

- - - - ”Artificial Intelligence Is Driving A Silicon Renaissance”
      - ”Demystifying Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence”
      - ”DeepMind compares the way children and AI explore”
      - ”Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry—new hardware could curb its appetite”
      - ”5 Reasons Why Artificial Intelligence Really Is Going To Change Our World”

No Tears

- - - - ”A Powerful Model for Understanding Good Tech Integration”

Privacy Hacks

- - - - ”Hackers sell over 73 million stolen user records on the dark web”

Brainiacs

- - - - ”Elon Musk to trial brain implants which may allow quadriplegics to walk”
      - ”AI Beats Neurologists at Making Alzheimer’s Diagnosis”

Climate Ramifications

- - - - “We can’t self-isolate from climate change’”

Protein Bombs

- - - - “Immune cells blast infections and cancer with protein ‘bombs’”

Fusion Radio

- - - - ”Radio Wave Breakthrough Helps Stabilize Fusion Reactions”

Material Science

- - - - ”We Might Have Just Found the Next Great Lighting Material”

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The Tau 12 Months Ago

“Poke around to get to the story behind the story, as jumping to conclusions will surely lead to error.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Evidence

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “It’s once again time to check in with yourself on the higher thinking levels. Stop and ask yourself what you believe. Sure, you’ve done this already, but things have changed, and so have you.” Aries

Thanks for the reminder, with juggling so many initiatives at different stages of development it’s easy to forget what’s important.

I’m taking this one to heart by claiming my Patreon publication about all the changes we’re facing and what they mean for us.

“5” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “Confirmation bias suggests that humans tend to believe first and then find supporting evidence second. This order makes it impossible to root out factual truth. Fight the phenomenon. Question your own motives.” Virgo

What’s that old song — people only see what they believe and disregard the rest? The whole point to the first year of my natural experiment is to test out all forms of bias and wonder about what happens in our brain to make us susceptible to confirmation and selection bias in the first place.

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll

- @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines grew from 2300 to 2663.

Foresight

- California reopening plan for stores, schools, sports, concerts – Los Angeles Times

Quality-of-Life

- Coronavirus pandemic crushes rural California newspapers – Los Angeles Times

Long-Form

- Just picked up “Bob Dylan In America” by Sean Wilentz. Maybe because of the subliminal messaging like the times are a changing and the answer is blowing in the wind, but I kinda like Sean’s fanboy becomes music critic becomes historian surrounding Dylan’s life and times.
- Saw the movie, didn’t realize that one of my favorite authors, Michael Connelly — his detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch book series and Amazon Prime series — also wrote, “The Lincoln Lawyer” which I just finished. Gotta tell you I can’t not see his lead character (Mickey Haller, Bosch’s half brother) as anyone else but Matthew McConaughey.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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