Authoritarian high modernist models lurking in 2019 environment. They may not look like James Scott’s canonical examples of scientific forestry, urban planning, but fit the pattern: - Black-swan startup farming - Tenure-track - Ad-based platforms - Blockbuster drugs
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I'd say there's one other big difference from the older kind of authoritarianism: tyranny via numbers games
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One perverse epistemic trend that started a decade ago that I fell for for a time was thinking that the way to deal with complex domains is by reducing them to numbers games. Unfortunately this itself just means naively modeling things instead of developing any sensibility.
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