If you want to meet the coolest devout Muslims, say something sweepingly stupid about all Hijabis. You will soon meet a skateboarding hijabi neurosurgeon who gigs as lead guitarist on weekends to raise money for the study of childhood diseases...or some equivalent amazing person.
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This is not a defense of the Hijab which can raise many complex issues. It’s an observation about how many amazingly accomplished women wear hijab and the dangers of simple stories that we tell ourselves about the other that don’t survive brushes with the complexity of reality.
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein
subtract the linearised error from the best picture you have of reality = an estimate of the non-linear, past or stasis oriented error of the perceptions of the world.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @EricRWeinstein
A couple of times a day you post something I can't even grasp the nature of. It makes me feel inadequate and worried I am missing something of consequence or some inside joke about a larger concept I don't even see.
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it's ok to be a piece that snaps into place later
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