Since it's pile on Noah Smith day, it's quite amazing how he simply cannot see any reason for 'holding' a belief beside that of favoring the political implications of said belief.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/a-response-to-scott-alexander-on …
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Replying to @Outsideness
Scott’s the weird one here. Did studying Talmud have anything to do with reality? Did Confucian civil service exams?
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The selective pressure wasn't Torah study or Talmudic legalism - it was in being successful enough in trade to have the wealth to survive plagues and famines. Read the 10,000 Year Explosion.
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