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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Jul 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Katie Henry

      John Allen Paulos, the mathematician who wrote Innumeracy, predicted that the Unabomber was also a mathematician just based on the style of the Unabomber Manifesto All his colleagues got really mad at him and demanded a retraction but then he was righthttps://twitter.com/KT_NRE/status/1287841757066137600?s=19 …

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      Katie Henry @KT_NRE
      Once in college, a professor begged me to stop putting jokes in my footnotes because it was totally inappropriate for academic papers. So I stopped, but now I think the real problem was none of my footnotes were as funny as this one: pic.twitter.com/2JNjGBPHVT
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    2. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I'm not a mathematician but I'm friends with several, and Paulos was spot on. It was super obvious he was either in math or in one of the formal-logic-y corners of PhilSci - there's a really unmistakable way they specify terms.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect

      Right at the beginning (bc I'm definitely not wading through the whole thing right now)pic.twitter.com/oO4jHmc8zq

      2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    4. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect

      His *argument* is a sociological one, but the *way* he argues is pure mathematician.

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    5. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect

      (It's also striking, the degree to which Yarvin clearly models his writing on TK's, but CY is utterly without the intellectual clarity or formal training to pull it off.)

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @iridienne

      I do kind of remember him describing this debate with his colleagues and him pointing this out and colleagues saying that someone as disturbed as the Unabomber couldn't *actually* be a mathematician but must be a dilettante crank pretending to be one

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

      And Paulos was like "No his argumentation is fluent and sophisticated enough that I consider it quite likely he's the holder of an advanced degree and has probably been published" And lo and behold, he was right about that too

      11:11 PM - 27 Jul 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

          People are reluctant to give credit to bad people for anything but as he kind of trollishly pointed out (as did other commentators like Chuck Klostermann) to successfully be the Unabomber and not get caught for so long requires an unusual level of competence

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        3. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 27 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I mean, the reason his argument ends up bad is because ultimately, "doing sociology" is very little like "doing math", and competence at one doesn't automatically translate to the other (a mistake which TK is neither the first nor the last STEMlord to make).

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