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  1. Pinned Tweet
    31 May 2018

    Seth Roberts on the evolution of human habits & hobbies & trade & technological development: 7 years on, it's still the single paper I think of most often.

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  3. Jan 27

    Jubal called out, "That house on the hilltop--can you see what color they've painted it?" Anne looked, then answered, "It's white on this side."

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  4. Jan 27

    "Overconfidence in the global word game, esp. in social sciences, threatens the production & appreciation of genuine knowledge." Fake "facts," the replication crisis & “word laundering” all involve dropping (losing or ignoring) context:

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  5. Jan 22

    Academics love catchy numbers

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  6. Jan 19

    "Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas."

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  7. 30 Dec 2019

    "A railway is not merely an investment with an expected return; it’s also a slap in the face for older social norms."

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  8. 30 Dec 2019

    "The legibility-inducing nature of bubbles creates a rivalrous dynamic, because it requires visionaries to have a specific view of the future, incompatible with the status quo."

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  9. 30 Dec 2019

    "With the rise of railway timetables, it was possible to know, down to the minute, when they’d reach the station. Other bubbles re-map the world in other ways: the growth of global trade led Parliament to offer a bounty for accurate measurements of longitude."

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  10. 30 Dec 2019

    "Money changes hands, but the world does tend to improve, either through over-investment in technology (in equity bubbles) or through a more detailed mapping of the status quo (in credit bubbles)."

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  11. 30 Dec 2019
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    17 Dec 2019

    Need word/term for when you used to joke about something bad but then it comes true, thereby sapping the joke of its previous appeal.

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  13. 4 Dec 2019

    Mutual causation of social pressures & beliefs. A solid first look at 1995's Private Truths, Public Lies: [...] Preference Falsification. (Timur Kuran's book reviewed by C. Sunstein, under A. Sullivan as ed.)

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  14. 8 Nov 2019

    "If journalists were worried about dishonest video footage as such, they had ample opportunity to demonstrate it. The real problem journalists face is losing a monopoly on deceptive editing."

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  15. 2 Nov 2019

    Liberalism is the coalition for lessening status distinctions.

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  16. 2 Nov 2019

    Leftism is the coalition against evolved status standards.

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  17. 2 Nov 2019

    As long as gaining Left-status in the culture-at-large is more valuable than gaining Right-status, Pournelle's Law (of leadership selection) leads straight to Conquest's Second. And, the more polarized our politics, the purer & stronger this path.

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  18. 2 Nov 2019

    For me, this is all hardcore contemporary history toward understanding the true dynamics of Conquest's Second Law: "Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing."

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  19. 2 Nov 2019

    Pournelle's Iron Law: "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control while those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely."

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  20. 2 Nov 2019

    At online community speed, Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy starts to describe even formally unorganized enthusiast status hierarchies once they're active enough that the status become valuably significant.

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  21. 2 Nov 2019

    I'm thinking that each community's sin-finding (converging on an idea of what's most wrong with the outside world & then together railing against it) gains its steam through universal ingroup/outgroup dynamics that play out ~universally.

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