#unknown-unknowns — Public Fediverse posts

@RickiTarr

https://underwatermalta.org/

Because new things are learned.

Malta used lidar technology in 2015 and discovered a B-24 Liberator that went down on May 6th, 1943. It took several years to recover the remains of a single serviceman who didn't make it out of the aircraft.
My b-i-l wasn't yet born when his 21-year-old cousin was K i a until a DNA test confirmed a living relative could make the decision about the remains of Sergeant Irving R Newman
July 4, 1920 - May 6 1943

#UnknownUnknowns

Der #TagDerArbeit ist immer auch ein Tag der #Wissensarbeit. Globale Konflikte, Demografischer Wandel und die Verwendung generativer KI in Breite sorgen für kontinuierliche Veränderung des Arbeitsumfelds für Wissensarbeiter:innen. Dadurch entstehen Wissenslücken und #UnknownUnknowns. Genau mit diesem Thema wollen wir uns bei der #lernOS Convention 2025 beschäftigen. Schaut euch die Ankündigung mal an: https://cogneon.de/event/lernos-convention-2025/ #loscon25

@dnkrupinski Wir nähern uns meiner Augangsfrage. the #unknownUnknowns

@RuthMalan @hibri @adrianco

Just today I listened to this amazing #MLStreetTalk with @tdietterich recommending:

» I think everybody should read #NancyLeveson book
'Engineering A Safer World'
because what she says is you don't build a #SafeSystem and then deploy it.
Safety is a really a control concept that a system is...we need to be constantly controlling and modifying the system to keep it safe.
And think it's very similar to this problem of the #UnknownUnknowns «

https://youtu.be/7bmhjt1cpRs?t=3243

"Creative Thinking in Crisis Psychology: Accepting and expecting the unexpected"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202407/creative-thinking-in-crisis-psychology
...and games about disasters https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202305/supporting-mental-health-through-disaster-prevention
 
#Creativity #CrisisPsychology #DisasterPsychology #UnknownUnknowns #DevilsAdvocate #DRR
#DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement

Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.

~ David McRaney

slip:4a1328.

https://constantine.name/2023/11/11/wrong/

#7ForSunday #DavidMcRaney #Quotes #UnknownUnknowns

Frustration

Learning to distinguish the map versus the territory is an essential step. It’s critical to learn what a map is, and what maps are good for, in order to proceed with one’s life. Maps enable me to see and do things otherwise impossible; maps reveal unknown unknowns. Maps can also frustrate me endlessly. Sometimes I don’t want to have an opinion; I don’t want to spend the energy to have an opinion. I don’t care how I get from here to there. Just. Tell. Me. how to get there. And of course nothing in this paragraph has to do with literal maps of the world— I’m not talking about cartography nor driving directions.

On closer examination, it turns out there are many things wrong with it. Thousand True Fans is a hollow philosophy. It is Chicken Soup for the Digital Creator’s Soul, ultimately devoid of any real nutritional value.

~ Dave Karpf from, The Hollow Core of Kevin Kelly’s “Thousand True Fans” Theory

slip:4usupe5.

Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans is a map, before it there was another map, The Cluetrain Manifesto, and there were others. When you find a new-to-you map it opens your mind to new possibilities. I would assume the first children’s books I encountered were astounding, but wouldn’t have the same effect today. (I’m not denigrating either of those works; I’m not suggesting they are “children’s books”.)

But I do get frustrated. I see a terrific map, and then I want to make a terrific next “move”. That’s not how maps work, Craig. You look at the map, then you take the next small step informed by everything you know, including the new perspective from the new map. You write one sentence (for example, on a page soliciting support for your work) and that’s informed by all the maps you’ve previously seen. Big picture. Little steps.

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#7ForSunday #Books #DaveKarpf #KevinKelly #Perspective #UnknownUnknowns

@johncarlosbaez Hmm Channelling Donald Rumsfled? #UnknownUnknowns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc

@nova #KnownKnowns and #KnownUnknowns. What about the #UnknownUnknowns?

Republicans are striving to embody Donald Rumsfeld's #UnknownUnknowns.

@Sheril @danielwhiteson And that's just "as we know it". I suppose, outside that are still things that "we have no idea we have no idea" *. #UnknownUnknowns

Known Knowns and False Truths

The "unknown unknowns" concept (long predating its popularly attributed source) can be extended by looking at the ground-truth and believed-truth status of information

This gives a total of 16 states:

KKTT KKTF KKFT KKFF
KUTT KUTF KUFT KUFF
UKTT UKTF UKFT UKFF
UUTT UUTF UUFT UUFF

I'm not entirely certain how useful this is, though it seems useful to think about information, knowledge, truth, and falsity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28505146

#KnownKnowns #UnknownUnknowns #truth #belief #knowledge #epistemology