Spoiler: when we try to ‘optimize’ science towards reductive and arbitrary metrics, we make it no longer science but something else entirely—something incapable of advancing our epistemic aims.

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I wish the pumpkin had never come to me

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there's a scene in the first 15 minutes or so of Monuments Men where george clooney is explaining on a big pull-out map of Europe where the war stands in 1943 and it's insanely funny if you turn off the part of your brain that absorbs exposition to note that he's telling this to FDR

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I gotta say dem primary voters made some pretty good calls this year in terms of which candidates were going to be serious general election candidates and which ones were egotistical nightmares, as shown by the behavior of the losers

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A scary post 👻

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