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the metaphysics of bullshit [d24255dc]

Tags: drafts

  • frankfurtian bullshit
  • fashionable nonsense
  • french metaphysics and psychoanalysis
  • too much bullshit
  • coins, ml, etc

    • money free and unfree
  • semi-religious stature of algorithms
  • semi-religious stature of counteterrorism

    • noah smith (religious violence is tied to counterterrorism?)

      • the culture war and the forever war
    • nassim nicolas taleb
  • are experts real?
  • is science done by a small elite? and the rest bullshit?
  • fake news -> bullshit about fake news (the cry over deepfakes and all)
  • capital -> economists should stop pretending they know very much
  • bad curve fitting -> www.instapaper.com/read/1305809288