"The point of a money-laundering operation is to take in both fairly-earned and dirty money, then mix them together so thoroughly that nobody can tell which is which. Likewise, the point of a privilege-laundering operation is to take in both fairly-earned and dirty privilege, then stamp both with a Harvard degree." #ScottAlexander https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-match-school-and-student-rank

The whole of #SlateStarCodex (#AstralCodexTen) summarised down to one paragraph by a redditor:

“Science is hard. Coordination is hard. Change is coming. Be kind to each other.”

#SSC #ASX #ScottAlexander

The whole of #SlateStarCodex (#AstralCodexTen) summarised down to one paragraph by a redditor:

“Science is hard. Coordination is hard. Change is coming. Be kind to each other.”

#SSC #ASX #ScottAlexander

@cjd
That seems right.

Note that #ScottAlexander now posts at
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

@emacsen

Bardzo fajny artykuły spod ręki Scotta Alexandra o enofilach i winie. Niestety, po angielsku. Po jego lekturze będę miał mniej wyrzutów sumienia, że czasami ordynarne jabole smakują mi lepiej niż wytrawne, eleganckie wina za parę stówek.

(najbardziej obrzydliwe wino jakie piłem to porto. Dostałem taką malutką buteleczkę w prezencie i przez kilka lat nie mogłem dokończyć. Smakowało jak rozpuszczalnik, a drogie było jak cholera.)

#enofile #wino #eksperci #ScottAlexander #alkohol

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/1/is-wine-fake

It feels great to stumble upon an #ACX post validating your own idea:

“I’m disappointed that no one has ever tried expanding the #QALY concept to things outside health care before. It’s not that I think it will work. It’s that I think it will fail to work in a different way than our naive opinions fail to work, and we might learn something from it.”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics/

#ScottAlexander #SSC

@fidel

That seems embarrassing, and I’ve been hearing about the sclerosis of #SanFrancisco for a while, too.

But I feel that proving a non-libertarian wrong in the abstract is indeed very difficult: #ScottAlexander is not arguing that governments and public agencies are always everywhere better than the private sector at everything they set to do — he’s showing that they are not always_worse_. This is intuitively obvious; ie none of the two extremes (absolute statism or #anarchocapitalism) is desirable.

If you’re a moderate, a centrist, or even a #minarchist, this comes as no surprise — no matter how many outrageous pieces of evidence you can collect to illustrate that “the other side” is sometimes inefficient, expensive, or even harmful…

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#ACX #AstralCodexTen #SlateStarCodex #ScottAlexander #meetup #event #Madrid

Man, do I love #StevenPinker…

“A typical essay by #ScottAlexander is deeper, better reasoned, better referenced, more original, and wittier than 99% of the opinion pieces in #MSM. It's sad that the #NYT can see him only through the lens of their standard political & cultural obsessions.”

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1360787817459253251
#SSC #SlateStarCodex #rationalism

השעה 11pm ואני מקבל לאינבוקס כמעט 400(!!) הודעות נכנסות. סקוט אלכסנדר החליט להחזיר את הבלוג שלו #SlateStarCodex ולא חשב לבטל את האוטומציה של ההודעות על פוסטים חדשים
#scottalexander​