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Perhaps bring in an outside observer who genuinely doesn’t care what the history is. A professional recorder of facts who can generate a range of potential motivations for the different actors (as there will always be a range of possibilities we can’t cut peoples hearts out now let alone determine the absolute why of any reason so and so did whatever) and just leave it as that. A hard set of facts and a wide scope of possibilities built around those facts, some more likely than others but still not truly certain. I’ve noticed these discussions seem to get bogged down into why so and so did this and would they have done this in another scenario. Always probabilistic at best.
Attempted solution from Jessica flake
Just started getting into Navarros blog post.
Everything seems to center around the measurement problem. Its inherently flawed and so generalizabulity is at best “not even wrong” or at least thats the line I’m going to use until I can describe this better.
I think many Americans instinctively distrust psychologists and psychiatrists. Its why every year there’s a massive campaign aimed at converting the very silent (majority?) to “take mental health(experts)” seriously.
As one guy on Twitter pointed out, this generalizability crisis is a huge issue here-if psychologists are basing mental health treatments on baseless conclusions they may be doing more harm than good.
I’m not even sure what to believe about economics at this point. I doubted the field before but this is like a dagger in its heart. What does an economist who has read this do? How does he redefine his role and use? Same with other humanities professions. This is massive.
Kind of bizarre how minds converge…..just a few weeks ago I was looking into her new book via interviews. One thing she pointed out that stood out to me is as she was revising and revising she realized rationalist folk were very good at pointing out the flawed logic in others and that was it!
Thank you! I’ve listened to i think both podcasts here and intend to relisten just with notes this time. The three districts blog is probably the best primer on this subject I’ve read so far. I won’t pretend to have a precise understanding right now but I’m reminded a lot about physicist Peter Woit and the issue of “not even wrong” cosmology.
Your post on the new right was kind of a tough read and really sank my hopes on a right wing populist movement making inroads and delivering an industrial policy that works for the country. Democrats as it stands have no willingness to pass the infrastructure bill they sparked hope for and this has sunk my hopes of left wing politicians delivering the update the country needs
The culture war reigns supreme. It’s in my interests for the country to push a more cooperative economy. I’m so upset my fellow countrymen aren’t voting in my interests!
The new rightists seem to lack the evangelical spirit that drove Bush. Evangelicals voted in droves for Trump but they’ve lost the kind of cultural power, and as far as I can tell, the same kind of confidence and spirit that propelled them to power then. As you say, it’s the culture of “don’t tread on me!” not some patriotic, compassionate conservatism that animates the base. Most Republicans now support gay marriage.
I don’t know what the new rightists are going to have to replace the momentum of that conservative Christian coalition. The church has dimmed or collapsed in a lot of working class white America as has family. If I’m not mistaken, a shocking study came out showing most evangelical youth cohabit before marriage.
Not something I’d ever expect. It feels like the drive and momentum of the country, more diverse than ever before, has just slowed.
I am too knew to this to know anyone but I’ve noticed sperber has a video with another psychologist on YouTube with next to no views and Mercier has a number of them. Both seem pretty approachable.
I think Sperber is the more effective speaker of the two
https://www.edge.org/conversation/dan_sperber-the-function-of-reason
One helpful side piece to the Quran is the abridged version of the very widely read exegesis of Ibn Kathir (perhaps most widely read tafsir?)
This is a salafi, abridged translation of his exegesis which itself was an attempted summary of the exegesis of Ibn Jarir at Tabari. There is a bit of distortion in some parts as the translators are biased.
I find it very useful for giving a lot of immediate context to what which verses are referring to and regularly check with it as a Muslim myself.
Gibran, mechanical design engineer at the joystick design company APEM. Have been lurking twitter and reading through a lot of threads related to society, history and human nature. It may be a few months I’ve known of this but can’t remember.
I like scholars stage a lot because I typically feel like your articles are the cheat codes to getting some clarity about the world, and also I didn’t put whatever insane level of effort necessary to arrive there. As a generalist your able to discover or analyze things broadly, using a bunch of specialists who’ve done research in depth and help us weed out many weak views and advance fewer stronger ones.
One example for me is the discussion of poetry and lasting cultural power. Another is the set of stuff discussing experts and what they can or can’t do for you. That was really big for me. The third most interesting but least discussed bit is his brief explanation of Tal Yarkonis generalizability crisis which think I understand in a (general hehe) sense but would like a more in depth and digestible explanation for the lay reader. It sounds like a groundbreaking thing for the humanities in the same way Godels incompleteness theorem was for math. Anyways glad to see forums are a thing again!