The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
in practice both EAs and rationalists have a catholic appetite for involving themselves in all sorts of controversies. Effective altruism
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Would we necessarily say that government, civic life, the media, or high finance work better now than in the mid-20th century? We can scorn the smug WASP blue bloods from Groton and Choate—and certainly their era’s retrograde views of race and gender—but their leadership helped produce the Progressive movement, the New Deal, victory in World War II... See more
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
The Worst Prediction of a Sorry Lot
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
The recent obsession with identity has allowed journalists to pretend—indeed to believe—they are still speaking truth to power, still fighting on behalf of the little guy, even after they have themselves ascended to the ranks of the powerful, even when they are speaking down to an audience who, in more cases than not, have less than them on every m... See more
Batya Ungar-Sargon • Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural industries, riddled with their own blind spots and biases including those of gender and race.