• Education has never solved a social problem, but it has created a few. 12 Hours
• @afoolswisdom Oh those are hopeless. There is no one right order any more than there is one set of right books. Only our own right order. 14 Hours
• We would all be incomparably better-educated if we had read the same books, but in the right order. 14 Hours
• @TamarHaspel Blog post on catch-and-release fishing: harmless recreational activity, or inexcusable Internet trolling? 16 Hours
• @adamgurri @nntaleb I should have credited Nassim. This is about as briefly as I can summarize his philosophy. 18 Hours
• Try to be not smarter but less stupid, not at all the same thing. 18 Hours
• @GetzelR Thanks. I wish it were true that I had just made a new mistake, but it just turned out be an old one. 19 Hours
• To make a new mistake is no small thing. 2 Days
• @adamgurri I didn't, but it's nice to plagiarize someone inadvertently for a change. 2 Days
• If you were immortal, how would you know? 2 Days
• College is a sorting algorithm, and feeding more data into a sorting algorithm produces, at best, more accurate sorting. 3 Days
• @edfrenkel Exorbitant. But I would be exuberant if I could charge them. 3 Days
• People who say they feel old mean that circumstances have momentarily forced them to stop pretending that they are young. 3 Days
• @tipsfromkatee You have taken away Santa's elves with one hand, and restored them with the other. 3 Days
• Episteme married Techne and they lived happily ever after. 4 Days
• When a majority rejects democracy, then in what does democracy consist? 5 Days
• Every truth is someone's cliché. 5 Days
• Only in far mode can one object to far mode. 6 Days
• An accurate thinker is right: a fertile one is interesting when wrong. 7 Days
• @julioxlemos True, but I'm not sure if even in that field that procedure is correct. 7 Days
• @InstanceOfClass Indubitably. Which tells us a lot about the usefulness of moral philosophy. 7 Days
• Moral philosophy warns us against deriving ought from is, when it is far more common, and pernicious, to derive is from ought. 7 Days

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