Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember... Twitter’s aggregation tools are absolute s–––. They are s––– by design: trying to trap your eyeballs within their walled garden in order to sell you ads to… so far this week it’s just clickbait websites, not overpriced gold funds, crypto scams, or fake medical cures. So far this week.This means that when there is a good discussion on twitter—increasingly rare these days—it is hard to save and then present it elsewhere
I listened to Paul Weiss for about an hour in the fall of 1965. He was being obtuse, at length, in front of a large undergraduate audience (a classroom with amphitheater seating). It was memorable, and unpleasant. But his course seemed to be popular. On the other hand there was a philosophy distributional requirement in effect that was abolished the following year, so that may have changed the situation.
Once you went through the pain of creating it, though, the Wakelet conversation is great. Perhaps you need an intern.
Anyway, my view is that nobody would be asking "where did Hitler find his Göring" if he had not first found his Manstein. France would have beaten Germany, as the German high command anticipated, and that would have been the end of the road for Hitler. And Hitler can hardly be credited with finding von Manstein! That was just dumb luck.
The shorter version might be to paraphrase Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get the right-wing politician to understand real economics when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Computational Social Science. I believe the UK did some of this modeling behavior of lockdown, social distancing, and mask-wearing as part of the input to the cabinet for the Covid-19 strategy. I think it all proved very wrong, even GIGO. That isn't to say such modeling shouldn't be attempted, but I fear too many people fancy themselves as Hari Seldon.
Manchin just said he wouldn't support a "partisan" voting rights bill (i.e. one that actually does something), nor support the end of the filibuster. Now what is Biden supposed to do? What can he? Is there nothing we can do to keep the fascists, who are *a minority*, from taking over?
I listened to Paul Weiss for about an hour in the fall of 1965. He was being obtuse, at length, in front of a large undergraduate audience (a classroom with amphitheater seating). It was memorable, and unpleasant. But his course seemed to be popular. On the other hand there was a philosophy distributional requirement in effect that was abolished the following year, so that may have changed the situation.
Once you went through the pain of creating it, though, the Wakelet conversation is great. Perhaps you need an intern.
Anyway, my view is that nobody would be asking "where did Hitler find his Göring" if he had not first found his Manstein. France would have beaten Germany, as the German high command anticipated, and that would have been the end of the road for Hitler. And Hitler can hardly be credited with finding von Manstein! That was just dumb luck.
Re: The Instability of Moderation
The shorter version might be to paraphrase Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get the right-wing politician to understand real economics when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Computational Social Science. I believe the UK did some of this modeling behavior of lockdown, social distancing, and mask-wearing as part of the input to the cabinet for the Covid-19 strategy. I think it all proved very wrong, even GIGO. That isn't to say such modeling shouldn't be attempted, but I fear too many people fancy themselves as Hari Seldon.
Manchin just said he wouldn't support a "partisan" voting rights bill (i.e. one that actually does something), nor support the end of the filibuster. Now what is Biden supposed to do? What can he? Is there nothing we can do to keep the fascists, who are *a minority*, from taking over?