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Try it yourself, and share your result in the comments!

Step 1 - Do the experiment
Post on instagram a poll with the prompt: Reacting with a 👍 is passive aggressive
Option 1 : Yes
Option 2 : No

Step 2 - convert it into a percentage

Step 3 - Publish your result as a comment on this thread ...

this feels relevant to the post: https://gwern.net/lean-scaling

This was raised here (https://forum.independentscience.org/viewtopic.php?t=8) but I think it makes sense to give it its own thread under the meta science label. Would love to hear any and all thoughts about documenting and publishing science.

Some things I think could be improved:

[1] science ...

Love this! I wonder if you could use devices that add to the signal of what you're learning about to integrate it more deeply. For example, if you're learning about waves, and solving an equation for a wave that is a specific shape, would wearing a haptic belt that is "playing" the vibration of that ...

when you hear the word 'longevity' what does it mean to you? what is the goal of it?

there seem to be many different interpretations of this. curious to hear your thoughts.

Tyler Cowen wrote about the future of research papers (link: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/03/when-will-the-research-paper-disappear-in-economics.html)

The obvious value of this (to me) would be if experiments were laid out very clearly for people to replicate + publish ...

Midjourney recently revealed plans for a scanner with the goal that "with enough early imaging in the future, the world could avoid 30% of all deaths and 50% of all healthcare costs" (link to the announcement: https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost)

What are the benefits of this, what are the ...

SURVEY TOOLS USED

Instagram polls
Prolific: https://www.prolific.com/ - lets you conduct surveys with real people really fast. It's not free (100 UK participants for a 1 minute survey was just under £40.00. It took roughly 10 minutes for 100 people to take it, from the time it went live ...