Taking this Scott Alexander piece as a jumping off point - left wing ideas are under selective pressure to be popular with people aspiring to power - not to function. The actual problem with academia is that for society to function it needs to brutally demolish left-wing ideas.https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1341798610141409287 …
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When someone goes in with an idea that "rent control is good because people should be able to afford houses" and doesn't get that stripped away for being unbelievably stupid academia has failed.
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A functional academia in a functional society is one that strips away bad, popular ideas. Current academia does the exact opposite - it drives the selection of bad ideas.
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Interesting article, but it's funny how underneath all the sterile and cerebral rationalism, you can always find a soft, gooey, secular humanist using moral intuition to pass judgments. "We just gotta be, like, nice to each other, man."
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Yep - and he still can't allow himself to clearly hear / understand the argument which is that left ideas are under selective pressure to allow a specific class to cohere long enough to loot everything rather than that they're under general pressure to be "popular"
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