From Jonah Goldberg at National Review, The Science of Intellectual Tribalism There’s a long progressive tradition in America to think that intellectuals must be liberal, and therefore intellectualism equals liberalism. If you believe that intellectualism requires being loyal to a
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I find books like Tyler Cowen’s The Great Stagnation to be refreshing and valuable not because they are right or wrong but because they offer a different perspective that what we are commonly fed. Much of our policy from both
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We mortals pride ourselves as rational beings, but we act emotionally. We get attached to previous positions, and will discount or filter evidence rather than change our minds. We read the news for confirmation rather than information. We are so
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“If you want to see what I mean by arbitrariness of categories, check the situation of polarized politics. The next time a Marian visits earth, try to explain to him why who those favor allowing the elimination of a fetus
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“Whenever you hear a snotty (and frustrated) European middlebrow presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as “uncultured,” “unintellectual,” and “poor in math” because, unlike his peers, Americans are not into equation drills and the constructions middlebrows
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“I started putting an error rate on the Gaussian (by having my true distribution draw from two or more Gaussians, each with different parameters) leading to nested distributions almost invariably producing some class of Extremistan. So, to me, the variance
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I have been a fan of Nassim Taleb since I read “Fooled by Randomness”. I remember stumbling in it the bookstore at Columbia University in New York. I quickly grabbed his most noted book, “The Black Swan” which continued his
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