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IMO the people who most bitterly complain about The Review Process tend to be atrociouy bad paper writers actually

never before has something this silly been so potently true

just watched this, super interesting stuff! I do wonder if in your framework, trusting science means trusting the method or the scientists qua human beings? because if the 2nd (which sort of is implied in the lecture, I'd have to say science =/= the scientists)

good!

Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile.

He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.

so nice to know! I've been to Doc Films many times as a mere spectator (not lately tho). I will try to see if it can get screened; I am incredibly frustrated (and now kind of hellbent lol)

(or are!)

wait were you at UChicago?

There is absolutely no way to watch this movie; had never seen something like that before :/

When you're not "allowed" to question constructs, you're no longer being invited to actually help understand the world. You're just being told what you're allowed to ask about and think about. You're trapped downstream of the most interesting questions.

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