Zakaria is a textbook example of what @nntaleb warns about: a fake "expert" who pays no price for being wrong.https://twitter.com/fareedzakaria/status/1007448216210731008 …
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Only a philosopher king, with clear awareness of frequent and violent swings of the sword of Damocles, can pay a price proportionate to thinking about such matters.
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This describes some societies, but not ours. We should then be be pessimistic about the state of social knowledge.
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Not because it is that hard to get the right answers, but because the price of promoting nonsense is so low and often handsomely rewarded.
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Flaw of the Enlightenment project: The commons of social thought will always be defecated on.
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