"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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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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Only a few hundred years ago mathematics was felt to be akin to black magic, and this rises up if, e.g. under time pressure, we encounter an adversary with faster or more convincing mental maths.
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1) Is the line all that fine? The scale tells you something that can come in handy if, say, you want to ride a vehicle but there’s a weight restriction. And it can be (roughly) verified at other scales. The fortune, not so much. Am I missing something?
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