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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7h \ on: Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it science
Very interesting. Very much a "Who watches the watchmen" scenario
It takes a lot of chutzpah for someone like Tapper to be writing about this topic... and so soon too. These people literally have no shame.
I wonder if he'll lose his job soon. Even if you're against Trump's agenda, this doesn't pass as good analysis, no matter your point of view.
@denlillaapan it's our favorite euro crybaby, Martin Wolf #890832
Honestly, the thing that The Matrix got wrong was that the robots had to enslave the humans. I think if there was ever a Matrix, most people would volunteer to plug themselves into it.
University faculties are mostly paid like government bureaucrats with rigid pay scales that go by seniority rather than merit. Faculty committees are typically controlled by the least scholarly faculty members due to the fact that to the more productive scholars the opportunity cost of spending endless hours sitting in unproductive committee meetings is too high. It’s the low opportunity cost faculty who make university policy by committee.
SOOOOooooo much this.
The people who staff the administrative ranks at the university are the least open-minded and scholarly, and instead the most political / self-aggrandizing.
Reminds me of society at large... how some of the worst and least productive people go into politics.
Not sure how to change this, but the dynamic is real.
54 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 19h \ parent \ on: Washington Post new opinion pages Politics_And_Law
One hypothesis is that they're political chameleons... they felt the political winds changing and are moving with them.
Another hypothesis is that they were much more free-market and libertarian all along, but were willing to give DEI/the wokies a chance, (or didn't want to rock the boat given that the young staff are predominantly woke), ... but finally decided that enough is enough.
There may be an element of both. Even within the university, I can certainly sense that more and more people are getting fed up with the wokies, having nothing to do with national politics.
Everyone's readiness for education happens at a different age. I think the idea of doing age-based schooling is very misguided.
I'll be teaching my class about money this week! And will be showing them some videos related to Bitcoin!
They should call it betaville or sigmaville because Bitcoin's alpha is great, and this article is mostly about beta/sigma
