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By: Web Roundup: Links for September - rs.io

Web Roundup: Links for September - rs.io — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:06:45 +0000

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By: Douglas Knight

Douglas Knight — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 02:21:35 +0000

Speaking of links, I'm sure everyone is wondering if Scott was correct when he claimed that "The Rush from Judgment" was the most popular Theodore Dalrymple piece. I thought the other domestic violence piece was more popular and Scott was mixing them up. Actually, they were equally (un)popular at two citations a piece. If Scott had conflated them, four is pretty popular, but "What is Poverty?" had been cited five times. And six other articles were linked only once. I am surprised that "After Empire" was not linked a single time. In other times and places I think I have seen that cited at least as many times as "What is Poverty?"

By: Berna

Berna — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:03:23 +0000

Can’t wait until they’re available in the Netherlands!

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By: RCF

RCF — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 03:57:36 +0000

Hmm, according to Comodo, the Rationalist Conspiracy is totally infested with malware, and if you want to go there, I can’t stop you, but seriously, you really should rethink that decision, and don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 03:05:06 +0000

Which was Scott’s anticipation, but the opposite of what the research actually found. Might want to re-read that part.

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By: Well-Manicured-Bug

Well-Manicured-Bug — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:41:56 +0000

Well, of course the richer and whiter you are, the more you know that your kids are going to end up in college one way or the other, so you care less about your kid not getting a trophy.

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By: Ken Arromdee

Ken Arromdee — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:18:04 +0000

But anti-climate-change measures are promoted on the grounds that climate change is badly, badly, catastrophic. People promote it that way because they want to promote their own set of anti-climate-change measures (mostly, not using energy) and they must assert that climate change more catastrophic than the consequences of those measures. In other words, they think the payoff matrix is at -2000 0 for doing nothing so that they can claim that not using energy is an improvement.

But if it’s so catastrophic that you’re justified in taking extreme measures (not using energy) that could destroy the economy and modern life, it’s also catastrophic enough that you are justified in taking extreme measures of other types, including geoengineering.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 03:59:55 +0000

Re: Nobody actually worships Moloch:

A lot of what Frederick Winslow Taylor has in Principles of Scientific Management comes pretty close to this, at least in the sense of “intentionally accelerating Malthusian traps” and worshiping productive efficiency as an end unto itself.

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By: Army1987

Army1987 — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:00:39 +0000

I would also be interested to see if a consensus around geoengineering as a solution would mysteriously solve the global warming “debate”. If a lot of the debate is people pushing the science that supports their politics (existence of global warming makes environmentalism more important, its nonexistence makes it less important) then I would not be surprised to see a totally different pattern of who believes/doesn’t-believe-in “global warming as solvable by geoengineering” compared to “global warming as solvable by cutting carbon emissions”

Me neither. The idea of geoengineering would make lots of people squick. See also: the chemtrail cospiracy theory.

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By: Douglas Knight

Douglas Knight — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 14:43:44 +0000

Here are some posts that get spam that have no cost to closing: “Semite Times,” “MetaMed launch day,” “Links for June,” and “Open Thread 2“

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