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posted on September 07, 2019 02:53 AM by u/Elder_Cryptid

u/ProfColdheart 30 points at 1567870039.000000

James C. Scott: reducing a complex social / ecological order to a series of armchair models is dangerous.

Scott Alexander: omg so true

Scott Alexander: also I did some back of the envelope calculations and I don’t think racism is real in America

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u/PMMeYourJerkyRecipes 14 points at 1567843890.000000

Nice.

You could do another one for Manufacturing Consent.

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u/Snugglerific 8 points at 1567910359.000000

Also one for that Joe Henrich book... Cultural transmission can be adaptive -> tradcon is good

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u/DowntownPomelo 2 points at 1567865374.000000

How so?

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u/PMMeYourJerkyRecipes 25 points at 1567868111.000000

Scott thought the central thesis of Manufacturing Consent was that mainstream media is biased against democrats.

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u/Elder_Cryptid 10 points at 1567824845.000000

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u/mtae17 1 points at 1570385692.000000

/u/Elder_Cryptid are you on the discord?

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u/Elder_Cryptid 1 points at 1570607854.000000

Big Yud's Subhuman Extravaganza? Yes

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u/mtae17 1 points at 1570686662.000000

username?

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