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Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ

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Re: Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, the song exists on a playlist with a few hundred saves. I don’t think it’s a widespread groyper meme though. I’ve never seen them reference it on Twitter. Maybe the arrows are a video game reference? I still don’t see a groyper tie there. Meanwhile mainstream sources are reporting that the shooter appeared to be motivated by left political ideology. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/12/charlie...

You seems to be trying to cram this into an inapplicable left-right frame. This is intermemetic warfare. That's why major newspapers need extremely online editors to fact-check their reporting.

> This is intermemetic warfare

Doesn't seem that way to me. Tyler Robison thought Charlie Kirk was "Full of Hate and spreading hate", that is something left wingers would say, you see that sort of language all the time on the left wing parts of reddit, not some other right wing faction.

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From the WSJ article: > The field, they argue, has discovered little of importance in the last 50 years, because it is dominated by groupthink and silences anyone who dares to dissent from mainstream ideas, like string theory. I don't agree with the second part of the sentence, i.e. about the reason, not that I disagree, just that I have no idea why that is. But the first part, about discovering little of importance,…

> But is there any major technology that post 1960s theoretical physics has given us? I can't think of any example.

Insane take. Just GPS, MRIs (high temp. supercondutors), electron microscopes, quantum computing, and chip fabs alone are relevant to us here at HN.

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A couple thoughts: - The author of this clearly disliked the WSJ article, but I don't think they did a good job of explaining why. I'm not saying they're wrong, but this article is very emotional without much concrete criticism. I assume 'woit' is someone famous I should know about but don't and he or she is assuming people will find this sufficient simply because they wrote it. But for someone like me who doesn't kn…

>I assume 'woit' is someone famous I should know about but don't and he or she is assuming people will find this sufficient simply because they wrote it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Woit

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Re: Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ

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Huh, 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

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.math.colu... Has an IO error fetching the CRL. If you've got `security.OCSP.require` set to `true` it'll treat non-response from the OCSP server as a revoked cert.
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