Good fisking & constructive replacement of the idea of 'roundaboutness' in capital theory. Even though I think they can go further. โ https://t.co/LgxNclt1g2 https://t.co/7yI5eVRuWQ
Thread of the best papers and books I read in 2020, roughly in order.
Good fisking & constructive replacement of the idea of 'roundaboutness' in capital theory. Even though I think they can go further. โ https://t.co/LgxNclt1g2 https://t.co/7yI5eVRuWQ
Good, concise statement of an important point: https://t.co/tVaVBTDVwk
Nice essay on Popper's open society. Bare proceduralism isn't enough to hold together a community; a functional open society is "itself a substantive tradition". https://t.co/pkGddGVdIz pic.twitter.com/7CZLZd4dWw
— Cameron Harwick \U0001f3db (@C_Harwick) April 9, 2020
I enjoyed last year's "The Gig Economy" better, but this still lives up to the idea of Lovecraftian cosmic horror better than anything the actual Lovecraft ever wrote. https://t.co/8cSIyuZ6lk
The internet is an ocean that we invent as we explore it. In the murky darkness of virtual places, there could be dragons, shoggoths, leviathans...
— Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) November 16, 2019
This is an index of my threads. Start here, with my most ambitious work to date:https://t.co/xd38LvvCxJ
Interesting case study of the W.E.I.R.D.ification of a south pacific tribe and how the Protestant converts, unlike the Catholic ones, fundamentally change their relationship to ritual. https://t.co/vYTgufbrU1
A framework for thinking about when you're looking at group-selected adaptations, and by extension, what counts as "really" rational at any given level (gene, individual, group, etc). https://t.co/vmAUtEd8YV
Didn't realize the movie was coming out when I picked it up. Lots of interesting ideas, e.g. on infohazards and institutional evolution. https://t.co/gauakeiBJC
The Bene Gesserit have an applied science of the cultivation and exploitation of infohazards, both at the individual and the cultural levels. #Dune https://t.co/oXv3hiyIMj pic.twitter.com/0GUWcWyiIl
— Cameron Harwick \U0001f3db (@C_Harwick) July 11, 2020
Talks about human morality as a negotiation between evolved dominance and submission strategies. https://t.co/ANwOc9paA7
New paper with @hiltonroot in Ordo: "The Feudal Origins of the Western Legal Tradition", with some informal game theory on how feudalism as a smashing together of Roman and Germanic legal systems paved the way for strong-but-limited states. https://t.co/JHibLQZ69S pic.twitter.com/JzN5jvUuxB
— Cameron Harwick \U0001f3db (@C_Harwick) April 1, 2020
A good warning not to casually mix classical and evolutionary game theory, as many cultural-evolutionary models do. https://t.co/7S2XCqS9eG
This is how you criticize neoclassical econ right: sympathetically, and without just going "BuT iT's CoMpLeX". Okโso what do we do with that? https://t.co/jQ6Ov7zgQy
I wish SFI had hewed closer to this ethos! https://t.co/lcAEeyODos
Thread on Heiner (1983). While I'm not sold on its thesis, it's the *kind* of paper I love: laying out a straightforward principle and then applying it in surprising ways to far-flung arenas. https://t.co/6BhQy61SpS pic.twitter.com/QnU0CRSVHq
— Cameron Harwick \U0001f3db (@C_Harwick) December 19, 2020
Similar to his earlier v good paper, emphasizing the reliability problem in signals, but with lots more connections to other lits, e.g. animal signaling. https://t.co/jiSB0RC9wg https://t.co/GaahKU8RxT
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@bellingcat's attempt in their new book, published by
@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission. @BloomsburyPub @Tim_Hayward_
1) 2000 words are devoted to the OPCW controversy regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria in 2018 but critical material is omitted from the book. Reading it, one would never know the following:
2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyXโฆ @RobertF40396660
3) This act of attempted deception was only derailed because an inspector discovered the secret changes. The manipulations were reported by @ClarkeMicah
and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUvโฆ.
4) @bellingcat's book also makes no mention of the @couragefoundation panel, attended by the @opcw's first Director General, Jose Bustani, at which an OPCW official detailed key procedural irregularities and scientific flaws with the Final Douma Report:
@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission. @BloomsburyPub @Tim_Hayward_
\u201cAllegations of our involvement with the intelligence services are of course false,\u201d says Bellingcat founder @EliotHiggins https://t.co/55V7sJV9or
— UnHerd (@unherd) February 15, 2021
1) 2000 words are devoted to the OPCW controversy regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria in 2018 but critical material is omitted from the book. Reading it, one would never know the following:
2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyXโฆ @RobertF40396660
3) This act of attempted deception was only derailed because an inspector discovered the secret changes. The manipulations were reported by @ClarkeMicah
and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUvโฆ.
4) @bellingcat's book also makes no mention of the @couragefoundation panel, attended by the @opcw's first Director General, Jose Bustani, at which an OPCW official detailed key procedural irregularities and scientific flaws with the Final Douma Report:
