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Scott Alexander

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I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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    Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 20 Mar 2017
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    Scott Alexander Retweeted Tom Chivers

    Awful. We need to keep citing this until it's not true anymore.https://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/843913927398490113 …

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    Tom ChiversVerified account @TomChivers
    The More Widely Cited A Study Is, The Less Reliable It Is, Says This Study https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/the-more-widely-cited-a-study-is-the-less-reliable-it-is …
    4:22 PM - 20 Mar 2017
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    • Michael Fine Shashank Nayak Echosarts Matt Osterndorf Symora ꙮ Natan Melzer Rahul Sridhar 🌐 Michael Savage Tom Brown
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      1. Duncan Hooper‏Verified account @DuncanHooper 20 Mar 2017
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        but the more something is written by @tomchivers the more true it is. So you have a paradox.

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      1. Darren Signal  🐈‏ @dcsignal 20 Mar 2017
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        Not sure if this paper needs to be widely cited or not? This is one of those conundrums that causes star trek robots to explode.

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      1. Alexey Guzey‏ @alexeyguzey 22 Mar 2017
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        Alexey Guzey Retweeted Proc Nat Inst Sci

        sorry, this won't workhttps://twitter.com/pnis_co/status/665193847442546688 …

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        Proc Nat Inst Sci @pnis_co
        ICYMI: Department Chair cracking down on faculty listing tweets as publications http://pnis.co/scinews/vol2_23.html … pic.twitter.com/9hUSl2fNwI
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      1. Matthew Skala  😷‏ @mattskala 20 Mar 2017
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        There are several hiring committees to whom I need to show that. @slatestarcodex

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      1. Lucio Martelli‏ @LucioMM1 21 Mar 2017
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        genius

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      1. Lou Keep‏ @lou_keep 21 Mar 2017
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        according to Thomas Aquinas : "...to argue from authority... 'is the weakest kind of proof,' as Boethius says."

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      2. Paul Crowley‏ @ciphergoth 21 Mar 2017
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        Hang on, won't that cause it to be true again?

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      3. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck 21 Mar 2017
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        No, once it’s no longer true we stop citing it.

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