"Like police detectives who go undercover and become too attached to the trappings of the criminal underworld to ever return from it, so too are logicians drawn in by sophisms.”
(Currently enjoying @jehsmith *Irrationality*)
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Now reading part on art and genius, I wish
@jehsmith had discussed the way in which "genius" makes idiosyncracy/irrationality safe--the idea that genius is innate, unacquirable, untransmittable i.e. *uninfectious*, has always struck me as important for 'containment' of irrationalPrikaži ovu nit -
on the fineness of the line between computation, and its ancestor, divination:pic.twitter.com/6yqc297RbV
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Smith (rightly) criticizes Brennan for not explaining how epistocracy could come to be (in any way that doesn't entrench power), but is guilty of same lacuna when suggesting the internet/social media could be good if regulated by democratic deliberation. How cd. this come to be?
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Not to get too meta on you but here's his take on twitter: “Online discourse feels free, to the extent that it is pleasing to the individual who puts it out there, but it is more or less always channeled either down the path of like-seeking, or down the path of trolling.”
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"if we hope to establish a way of looking at human variety that favors continuity and fluidity, how does it help matters to simply shift the fundamental rift from that between “male” and “female” to that between “cis” and “trans”? ” I enjoyed his tiptoeing into "universalism"
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On why we can't draw clean lines defining when humor "goes too far"pic.twitter.com/Cm7oG2mbYh
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Related to the point about humor, which, it turns out, encapsulated the thesis of the whole book:pic.twitter.com/eOWkCdHm98
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