Sooner or later, some are going to have to face facts, gently move some heavily compromised octogenarians into retirement, stop pretending we can live without institutions, and just fix things. Or not. And then we’ll see. Sooner would be better. 🙏

It’s popular to pretend that we can take over from all failing systems by 3D printing our own guns, moving everything onto the blockchain, buying diesel generators, doing our own financial analysis, etc. But all that still rides on a substrate of institutions. Which are failing.

@cculianu I subtly pronounce the K in Knight. Same for Knarc.

This is the age of the Knarc. I want you to remember this when I tell you things supported nowhere by the mainstream: to a Knarc, every dissenter is a crank. Peer review, awards, credentials, etc don’t behave positively during a universal institutional intellectual collapse. 🙏 https://t.co/OVpuEFObKK Quoted tweet from @SVB_Financial: Proud to be on

For those who are new around here: Welcome. https://t.co/Vq1UBo33il Quoted tweet from @EricRWeinstein: Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards. Here we check in

Fair question. But compare it to startups. Or “People who will be successful making a career in music.” Or “Actors who should continue to wait tables.” I am an enormous critic of academic research. But high-end research has been *phenomenally* high quality until fairly recently. https://t.co/ioVlOWv0QG Quoted tweet from @pmarca: What % of published academic

The last 50 yrs of academic labor market collapse have been largely a period of decay for high end academic research as my friend @pmarca correctly points out. But that‘s financial in origin & it has been decaying from an extraordinary level of achievement. Hence the confusions.

@piperiain_ This. https://t.co/Vq1UBo33il Quoted tweet from @EricRWeinstein: Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards. Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020: