"On the one hand, this is really cool, and watching it in action gives you the same kind of feeling Seldon must have had inventing psychohistory" ... and on the other hand it's probably a steaming load of BS? https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/02/book-review-ages-of-discord/ …
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Yeah, but his thinking is handicapped by having to believe all the absurd stuff he believes so he has a very difficult time coming up with rules that allow him to disbelieve BS without disbelieving his own ideology
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
what is Peter Turchin's ideology? Is he on twitter?
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Scott has a pattern of approaching the logical flaws in his own side's positions then backing off or failing to draw obvious conclusions. He's also said that he's ensconced in a very left wing peer group and has separately mentioned that he's very anxious to keep them happy.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
"Scott has a pattern of approaching the logical flaws in his own side's positions then backing off or failing to draw obvious conclusions." - probably because he doesn't want to get witch-hunted. Or at least he wants to move backwards in the queue for being witch-hunted.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Keeping this brief, (IMO) Scott is strongly in favor of witch hunting and strongly against Scott being witch hunted. Basically the most contemptible possible position.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
It's probably the only tenable position for him. I mean the first easy way to get the witches to out themselves is to ask who's not in favour of witch-hunts.
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This gets more into the substance but progressive / leftist witch hunts are particularly insane because they can never end - they have faulty assumptions about reality and their reaction to seeing those assumptions falsified is to assume a witch did it.
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