Want to hear a great joke about our burgeoning Expertocracy? Rochelle Walensky still has her job. Hilarious! Not as funny as England’s Experts proposing those under 25 can’t drive their own children […]
More On The Tyranny Of Experts: CDC & Banning Driving
If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?
Update See the Twitter thread (and account) for many more examples. NOBODY has been able to find a word yet that Experts haven’t tied to “climate change.” Got an email telling me […]
Doctors At NEJM Release Important New Statement: Do Not Get Sick
It’s not certain—where I take that word in its strict sense—that the men on our side of Reality are right about how to gain and keep health. Should you slonk raw eggs? […]
How The Laws Of Physics Lie
The title is Nancy Cartwright’s, from her book of the same name, and from an article which forms Chapter 3, “Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?” No, she says, and […]
On Why That “In Defense of Merit in Science” Paper Will Fail In Its Worthy Goal
You might have heard of the peer-reviewed article “In Defense of Merit in Science” by “intellectual dark web” members like Peter Boghossian and old-school lefties like Jerry Coyne, John McWhorter and so […]
The Less You Know About Climate, The More You Cry About Climate
Some things, the saying goes, are too good to check. Take the peer-reviewed paper “Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety” by Hannes Zacher and Cort W. Rudolph in Climatic […]
Why The Inexorable Increase In The Expertocracy: Examples
Our goal, no easy one, is to figure the trajectory of the Expertocracy. Their goal we know. Complete total full control of every aspect of all life under the guidance, all-seeing, and […]
There Is No Problem Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Probability
Rationalists, like those at Less Wrong (think Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander), are prone to fetishsize Bayes theorem, seeing it as the key to all thought. It isn’t. Bayes is a helpful […]
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