Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
So why trust science? I would say I am a proud supporter of scientism, crude versions aside. Naomi Oreskes is a prominent science historian who mostly writes history books attacking climate skepticism and Big Capitalism. But now she has a new brief book defending science. Actually, some of the main content is about attacking how…
Continue ReadingThis has been suggested many times, but if you don’t want to read the 4000 words version that Moldbug has, here’s a 255 words TL;DR. What you want is a manager app: Why do you want this? Because content creators — which we may define as those 1% of users that drive traffic — don’t…
Continue ReadingIn the last year or so, there has been a notable growth in people using Substack. This platform is essentially a platform for subscription blogs, where one can opt-in to pay the author some monthly/yearly amount. Usually though authors have a free option as they are more interested in influence and readership growth than monetization….
Continue ReadingTwitter has generally been somewhat less censorious than other platforms, my impression. However, perhaps emboldened by the Victory of 2020, they apparently have implemented a domain block for amren.com. It blocks both public and private links. That makes it functionally the same as Facebook’s blacklist for the same domain. Public post attempt: And in private:…
Continue ReadingNoam Chomsky has been a pretty consistent far left defender of free speech. He even has a book that advocates the media are biased — towards the right! Well, sort of. Scott Alexander has a good review of it (Manufacturing Consent, very apt title for modern times too). Chomsky was also a recent signer of…
Continue ReadingMy Medium account was just suspended because of the list I’ve been creating of companies support Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and the rioters. pic.twitter.com/2VVkHjt0io — Ashley Rae Groypenberg (@Communism_Kills) June 8, 2020 This was unsurprising given Medium’s increasingly censorious behavior (also for COVID data). I absolutely hate censorship, so I am reposting this list. It…
Continue ReadingToot toot, here comes the far left fire brigade! Not to worry, your saviors are here to tell you what your eyes see. https://t.co/8AoqW5qLW0 — Emil O W Kirkegaard (@KirkegaardEmil) May 27, 2020 Ewan Birney, “Director of EMBL-EBI with an insatiable love of biology; small research group on genomics research.”. He earlier embarrased himself by…
Continue ReadingSince a lot of foreigners are talking about this one and I am in a position to read the Danish language, it seems worthwhile to recap it here. The Danish website for the report is here. There is no English language summary that I can see. The background for the report, Google translated (with manual…
Continue ReadingSo, recently, we saw that Facebook added more sites to its block list. I don’t know if there’s a public listing of these, but the list must be getting very low indeed. It’s justified all the usual ways totalitarians justify their censorship: it begins with stuff ‘everybody can agree with’, such as spam sites and…
Continue ReadingRauch, J. (1993). Kindly inquisitors: The new attacks on free thought. University of Chicago Press. There is a slightly updated 2014 version which I read. It’s on Libgen. Many years ago, I was at a public library in Viborg (my home town, ish), and I was telling a friend that I had never stumbled upon…
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