Let me quickly add some slides about the Vienna circle, 20 minutes tops
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frantically searching for a high-resolution photo of the inscription on the staircase where Moritz Schlick was shot
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Let me quickly add some slides about the Vienna circle, 20 minutes tops
Three hours later
frantically searching for a high-resolution photo of the inscription on the staircase where Moritz Schlick was shot
This seems like a somewhat common patterns: somebody points out a fatal flaw in the central premise of a study and the authors respond “you don’t engage with our core finding” when the whole finding rests on the premise that was just illustrated to be flawed 🥲
Listening to some pop science book when suddenly Satoshi Kanazawa’s work is referenced in quite some detail—
"He [...] doesn’t talk about quantum evolution unless someone else brings it up first. There must be millions of people like him. Used car dealers with proofs of P=NP, dentists who think they’ve discovered something important about Mary Magdalene, math professors obsessed with destroying the moon."
Folie a deux ex machina