I still can’t get over Epstein’s ideas about viral adaptation in the Chotiner piece. I think he’s talking about what I think is a general pattern in virology that successful viruses need you to live long enough to allow them to propagate efficiently. So if you become ...
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Replying to @joshtpm
I'm digging into this a little bit but it seems like Epstein is, via Hayek, a Lamarckian of some sort -- which is not mainstream science at all!
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Replying to @akundaria @HeerJeet
You can sort of imagine a sokal hoax type thing being launched over it
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Sokal hoax is not far off the mark. Epstein is riffing on Hayek's 1970s attempt to fuse libertarianism with Lamarckian evolutionary theory (done by Hayek as a response to sociobiology). It's a part of Hayek that even many libertarians find embarrassing. So weird.
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