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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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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