China’s beauty slimness obsession highlighted after woman’s weight drops to 25kg in a year with multiple organ failure and refuses treatment
In a culture that views thinness as the epitome of female beauty the case of a Chinese woman with anorexia nervosa ignoring medical advice spurs debate about beauty standards in China. ⌘ Read more

humans have invented mathematics surprisingly early (while the status of the number zero was still being debated in ancient greece), and programming surprisingly late (although algorithms were around for a long time, they didn’t catch on until later, even though they seem like an at least equally intuitive concept?)

**Não devia surpreender ninguém, mas devia ser notícia de capa, todos os dias:

“Segundo a óptica do investigador, prepararmo-nos para o aparecimento de novas pandemias é adaptarmo-nos às alterações climáticas.”

A reflectir, num dia de debate do O. Estado.

https://www.publico.pt/2022/04/28/azul/noticia/crise-climatica-vai-gerar-mundo-doencas-novas-2004059**
Não devia surpreender ninguém, mas devia ser notícia de capa, todos os dias:

“Segundo a óptica do investigador, prepararmo-nos para o aparecimento de nov … ⌘ Read more

I’ve noticed a gradient of skepticism about climate change, ranging from outright contradiction that it exists to debates about the specific measures needed to reverse acknowledged warming trends. Using the general term “climate change denial” to describe that entire gradient, and thus treating all forms of skepticism as equally ignorant, seems counterproductive to me.

party game idea: MNIST debate

Is the Web made for Computers? Or are Computers made for the Web?
A variation on the debate between Thick Clients and Thin Clients. ⌘ Read more

web0?
With all the hype (or bullshit) about “web3”, it’s good to see a counter movement as well. Whether this site is really “web0” or just pre-“Web 2++” (my term for websites overloaded with frameworks, JavaScript and CSS) remains to be debated… ⌘ Read more

basin of corrigibility seems to be a reasonably large crux for prosaic alignment vs. miri debates

Philosophy’s lack of progress ⌘ Read more…

La Boum 2 : est-ce ça le monde dans lequel nous élevons nos enfants ? - La Libre ⌘ Read more…

Sciensano et la Smals : l’informatique comme on n’en veut plus - La Libre ⌘ https://www.lalibre.be/debats/opinions/sciensano-et-la-smals-l-informatique-comme-on-n-en-veut-plus-5f48bb8c9978e2322f2e5233

Apparently the Peterson/Zizek debate went about as I expected: Peterson said nothing interesting, and Zizek said nothing on-topic. I’ll have to watch it later, because it sounds entertaining. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/live-commentary-on-the-zizek-peterson-debate

Briefings: Reciprocal radicalisation | Radicalisation Research https://www.radicalisationresearch.org/debate/briefings-reciprocal-radicalisation/

Facebook filed a patent for a ‘civil’ political debate forum - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18244632/facebook-political-debate-system-digital-forum-reputation-patent-filing

Live on April 19th: the professor you’re glad you don’t have and the professor you wish you had debate about something basically tangential to either’s appeal or focus, and one of them will be entertaining.

Resolved: Debate is stupid | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6709/debate-is-stupid

Screw the notional Zizek vs Peterson debate. I wanna see a Zizek vs Land debate. Or Zizek and Land debating Mark Fisher through an Ouija board. (The board doesn’t need to work. Better if it doesn’t.)

[1703.00045] Aggregated knowledge from a small number of debates outperforms the wisdom of large crowds https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00045##

Fan fiction site AO3 is dealing with a free speech debate of its own - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18072622/fanfic-ao3-free-speech-censorship-fandom

Have you tried claiming that a recent failure to solve the problem marks the end of all possible progress on or debate about the problem?

Coinworlders have a turn of phrase, calling things “as likely as ten days”, while theologists debate whether the world can land on its edge.

dryad scholars debating the question of tree will

The shape of cyberspace becomes a matter of much debate: “It’s flat!” “No, it’s round” “It’s both and there is a great firewall at its end!”