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Replacing the “natural,” that is age-old, processes that have survived trillions of high-dimensional stressors with something in a “peer-reviewed” journal that may not survive replication or statistical scrutiny is neither science nor good practice.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
subject to energy conservation and other constraints.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
10 AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE IDEOLOGY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Instead, information can be redundant or synergistic,
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
we are still just talking about how people relate to one another.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Such racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, b
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Discrimination based on origins is thus not just reprehensible, it’s also incoherent.