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Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ
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#12The internet has allowed anyone to build a voice/following. Whether they should or not.
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#14The linked WSJ article has an interview-quote from Scott Aaronson:
> Anyone perceived as the ‘mainstream establishment’ faces a near-insurmountable burden of proof, while anyone perceived as ‘renegade’ wins by default if they identify any hole whatsoever in mainstream understanding.
I feel this Futurama clip about evolutionary "missing link" fossils [0] captures a little bit of that frustration. Building any cohesive framework for understanding a big problem is always harder than finding and attacking a weak spot and declaring the entire thing flawed.
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#15> I was planning on writing something explaining what exactly the WSJ story gets wrong, but now realize this is hopeless
Okay, then this blog post was essentially useless. The WSJ is wrong about something, but the author can't be bothered to tell us what. Pity.
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#16Huh, Firefox on Debian: An error occurred during a connection to www.math.columbia.edu. Peer’s Certificate has been revoked. Error code: SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE I apparently can't bypass it. EDIT: Chain: https://pastebin.com/raw/Mch2XTiQ
It's been archived on archive.today. https://archive.is/wAtCw That said, I'm not having this issue at all. Strange.
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#17Reading books is A-OK but you can't ignore online, and especially the online-offline nexus. Witness this week's escalation of a 4chan beef into a real-world assassination, another thing that the WSJ misreported.
What?
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#18In the past it was the postmodernists attacking physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
It's funny how this new generation of professional antiestablishers are using the same tactics (even though they would vehemently attach postmodernism)
It's all a power play really, when politics is involved. That's not science
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When the media stops holding people in power accountable, they are no different than idiots with megaphones. The press has special rights because accountability and informing the public was supposed to be their job.