here is a shorter summary of that essay, it may help to consider this before diving inhttps://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1222516132759793664?s=19 …
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a lot of what we seem to agonize over, as well, is how to avoid dying of brain worms thinking Clearly about information systems seems necessarily subjective(??), and doing this well is difficult in an environment rife with hostile self-aware entitieshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225?s=19 …
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(I link myself only for variety, everyone should be aware that banana is the OG and respected as such)pic.twitter.com/OgiPZTBByo
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(ii) why does any of this shit matter well maybe it doesnt hammer, nail, etc but it does seem to me that we are suffering a certain sort of epistemological crisis
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looping back to the motivating conversation: it seems to me that we are very much in a sort of epistemological interregnum traditional Knowledge Authorities--universities, media, religion--have lost the mandate of heaven
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i can imagine at least two causes one I talk about here with @collinofzion--this is an old story, but its simply a printing press-to-Reformation analogue universities and media authority relied on distributional barriers, and the Internet broke thosehttps://youtu.be/Gey0RPfR0kQ
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this has been building for a while, and is arguably even older than the internet--look at the proliferation of alternate right media in the 80s, or underground left media in the 60s and 70s the internet and social media in particular blew everything wide open, tho
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covid has been a second and acute disaster for traditional information authority experts fucked it up their mandate was to predict, prevent, and mitigate this sort of unusual event and they failed they failed embarrassingly badly and others did not fail
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things like the replication crisis and rampant politicization have been eating away at institutional academic authority for a while, but that was mostly inside baseball and a slow boil compared to fucking up covid you_had_one_job.jpg
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The crisis is mostly bullshit. The reproduction rates aren’t false but the panic and grandstanding about it is bullshit. Published/shared research has always been hit or miss Peer review has never been an email chain or consensus of editors. That’s an important
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i use "replication crisis" as a metonym for "basically every field is producing vast quantities of garbage"
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I get it. Wasn’t trying to mischaracterize your use of that term
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oh no didn't think you were, I was being imprecise :)
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