Brendan Foht

@bfoht

Be Reasonable, Be Sensible

Washington, D.C.
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Joined November 2011
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  1. Aug 11

    also, I never played 1st edition, but fireball is objectively terrible and obviously useless against a thessalhydra

  2. Aug 11

    most unrealistic thing about Stranger Things is kids playing D&D and not having a rule about just re-rolling dice that fall off the table

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  3. Aug 11

    I feel I decisively won tonight's dinner game of "Cast George Church."

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  4. Aug 11

    and that's caused a lot of silliness and scientism and such, but you have to sympathize w/ the temptation

  5. Aug 11

    a lot of social scientists try to "mathematize" to be more like physics, which has such a nice clear science-pseudoscience boundary

  6. Aug 11

    this is a really great piece on the science-pseudoscience problem, at least as it relates to physics

  7. Aug 9

    Clarisse = Milo Yiannopoulos Ulrich = Paul Ryan

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  8. Aug 9

    this is probably the most bonkers and intellectually ambitious "Trump is cray cray" hot takes possible

    Me on Robert Musil and Donald Trump: MAKE AMERICA AUSTRIA AGAIN.
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  9. Aug 8

    Trumponomics really is reform conservatism's evil twin. Same rough diagnosis, very different blend of TrueConnery and heterodoxy.

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  10. Aug 8

    Not sure if there is good fiction for this sort of thing tbh—sci-fi seems too focused on big world-building to look at these family dynamics

  11. Aug 8

    the dangerous allure of modern biotechnology as a way to expand parental control over circumstances/meaning of parenthood and the family.

  12. Aug 8

    I get that "Brave New World" is a shorthand, but it might be worth considering a new reference. Gattaca is better, tho still doesn't capture

  13. Aug 8

    this is a typical story for our time: definitely not something that would happen in the World State

    A constitutional right to artificial insemination? Lesbian Couple Sue Over New Jersey Rules for Fertility Treatment
  14. Aug 8

    today we're way more fragmented, and biotech undermines the natural family for the sake of liberation/equality, not stability/hierarchy

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  15. Aug 8

    BNW was written in the 30s, and was all about the consolidation of society in that era—so natural family subordinated to social stability

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  16. Aug 8

    Brave New World, the actual novel, does not really describe today's biotechnology very well

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  17. 22 Apr 2015

    world work, in pictogram. Civaschi & Milesi

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  18. Aug 8

    more deference to scientific institutions would actually reduce some of the most pernicious forms of scientism

    This election cycle may lead some to want to psychoanalyze candidates, but doing so is unethical, irresponsible.
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  19. Aug 7

    this post is extremely dumb, but it's not *that* much dumber than that thing in Slate about the fact-value dichotomy/nazis

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