Great. I am “tembel” (lazy). God invented Laplace to avoid doing work.
Explain to me why withdrawing troops from Afghanistan (after 19 years) would not be a good thing for 1) the American taxpayer, 2) the Afghan citizen, 3) peace on earth. It’s only a bad thing for the arms industry & contractors & their lobbies.
I’m very grateful to @nntaleb for sharing generously with my class today. I don’t know if many academics are assigning these works yet, but students found Skin in the Game and Principia Politica engaging reads which help integrate ideas from across disciplines. Thank you Maestro!
Lindy is a statistical rule not a formula.
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It is the Appendix of The Black Shit
Purloined by the French from Northern Syria. Yes it spent 2000 years being destroyed by the Syrians before the French rescued it. Imbecile, use smarter arguments.
That’s the theme of “On Bullshit” by Frankfurt. The bullshitter is neither right nor wrong. Unlike the liar, he does not care about/know the truth in the scientific sense.
1- You can have a class war 2- You can have a race war 3- You can have a gender war 4- You can have a culture war Do not conflate the four. People by now got that 1 & 2 are as Fat Tony wd say, “very different tings”. [Discussion w/an unnamed person; will be revealed later] 2) Note: by “culture war”, read secular-religious, Christian-Islam or Sunni-Shiite. 3) Tou can change class (this is commonly known as “opportunity”). You cannot change race. Which explains why immigrants can prefer capitalism and free markets while standing against racism.
No, SKEPTICISM & BS Busting does not cover things like ancestral activities w/hidden rationalities, things that contribute to survival. As w/Sextus Empiricus, it is “Against the Professors”, IYIs, interventionista social science/scientism, neither ancestral nor rigorous.
