#Epistemology

Coining phrases is hard, but here’s a few thoughts about a particular thing. A lot of people try to name the social blob currently eating academia and journalism. There’s the
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In the controversy around Modern Monetary Theory, both its advocates and its critics (for the most part) take MMT at face value as a theory of money, and so go
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Am I reading Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay's recent book, Cynical Theories? Yes.Is it bad? Of course.Am I wasting my time? Naturally. If I understand this correctly, Pluckrose and Lindsay
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In "Constantly Wrong," @remixeverything continues his brilliant mashup video work on conspiracy theories with a new, 47 minute documentary that contrasts real-world conspiracies (crimes) with conspiracy theories. https://www.youtu
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On why "it's a small change, why do you bother" and "Bob's heart is in the right place, let his little superstition be" is a load of rotten horseshit: a
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16 December 2020 #MAGAanalysis #TheTruth There Was A War On Earth: Truth vs LiesWho loves the Book of Revelation? I do. In my youth I opted to study two books
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A vitally important thread. Much isnt new, but is so in the air we breathe we forget how RECENT it is & therefore how unaccustomed we r to coping w/it.
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How does the picture of knowledge & understanding of Hayek, Wittgenstein, Polanyi, Michael Scriven, Thomas Kuhn, and Larry Wright compare to the work of the Post Modernists descending from Nietzsche,
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Excellent thread.Some think that I have been unduly critical of Colin Wright’s writing. Sometimes people say I’m being unfair.If you’ve thought that you might not know how much many of
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Kurt Mundorff wrote one of the best essays ever on #ChildWelfare Children as Chattel: Invoking the Thirteenth Amendment to Reform Child Welfare following his time as an ACS caseworker, his
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My Notes on Statistical Consequences of Fat TailsReal World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and ApplicationsBy @nntaleb "Insurance can only work in Mediocristan; you should never write an uncapped insurance contract if there
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A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.https://psmag.com/ideas/no-professors-arent-discriminating-against-conservative-students Wanted to give my
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1/ Although some diviners do tender conclusions purely on the basis of the rational symbolic significations of their divinatory system, any claim that this is the norm, let alone the
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Your point will only be valid if the women speaking of dick function are the same women who say men shouldn’t opine on abortion. If the woman is someone who
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1/ @threadapalooza of Sociotechnical Diagrams.These images answer the question: how does tech change society? And how does society change tech? 2/ We can start with the original tech society
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Ok I'm going to try a similar thing but with my understanding of Charles Mills' overall schtick, which I think he has been developing since the 90s (his early career
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