"The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account.

'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said."

Welp

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Yeah, I think the 100 door version helps show that it’s an epistemological problem more than a mathematical one: you gain a ton of information by Monty’s behavior, given that you know he knows which door matters and given you know he won’t close that one

Tucker Carlson interviewed nick fuentes and they vibed out about Jewish conspiracy theories and their dislike for Christian zionists (oh god why do I know this)

Yeah, unfortunately her recent book basically accepts an elite led technocratic vision of democracy. The problem she diagnoses is too much rawlsianism at HKS and so in the professional political and bureaucratic classes

*orthodox economic claims

and the organization of labor in firms as a premise in the broader case for their theory rather than as an assumption that they jump off from, like if they were developing a theory of trade justice that assumed MMT. Does that worry you as well?

Maybe I haven’t run into anyone who does what you don’t like. I was imagining a more mixed case (common, I think) where it’s not focused on whether the orthodox is true. Say a theory of eg freedom at work appeals to the falsity of heterodox economic claims about eg the relation between prosperity

This basically entails that you can’t do critical philosophy in areas where there’s a load-bearing claim that what counts as heterodox is at least in significant part a product of power and ideology, much more so than in the natural sciences (and especially in eg economics)

Postema has a recent whole book on it, I haven’t gotten far enough into it to vouch for its quality but I think it’s going to be a good articulation of a pretty mainstream approach

This doesn't address the general confusion but I think philosophy (Peter Railton) has actually overcome many of these difficulties, with some big assists from psychology and so on

You're telling me this isn't a shit post about enlarged prostates?

Yeah, first possession sometimes matters, like when there's sun or wind people are trying to avoid. But the generally this means the variance can be as much a feature of the rules as something intrinsic to the sport