By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
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. 🙏
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. 🙏
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
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.
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.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
What we call normal life is, in part, the willingness to consensually participate in a mutual dream state backed by a monopoly on violence (Government) advised by experts, and nominally directed by casting ballots informed by a free press. We cannot whittle away trust forever.
What we call normal life is, in part, the willingness to consensually participate in a mutual dream state backed by a monopoly on violence (Government) advised by experts, and nominally directed by casting ballots informed by a free press. We cannot whittle away trust forever.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Mar 23
@cculianu I subtly pronounce the K in Knight. Same for Knarc.
@cculianu I subtly pronounce the K in Knight. Same for Knarc.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Mar 23
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 research papers are worth anything? Roughly: Half of the fields are useless. 90% of the research from real fields is marginal at best. Half or more of the remainder doesn’t replicate. = ~2.5%? AI text generation can’t make this much worse, can it?
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 research papers are worth anything?
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Mar 23
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.
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.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Mar 23
@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: twitter.com/thedailybeast/…
@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: twitter.com/thedailybeast/…
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Mar 23
@Rabadash2 This. https://t.co/Vq1UBo2vsN 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: twitter.com/thedailybeast/…
@Rabadash2 This. https://t.co/Vq1UBo2vsN 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: twitter.com/thedailybeast/…
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Mar 23
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 @Forbes’ annual ranking of America’s Best Banks for the 5th straight year and to have also been named to the publication’s inaugural Financial All-Stars list. 👉 bit.svb.com/3ZFxwyp https://t.co/NFWlPJUbh5
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 @Forbes’ annual ranking of America’s
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Mar 23
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 with our journalists from Feb. 2020: twitter.com/thedailybeast/…
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 with our journalists from Feb.