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Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

From the New World

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Academic Standards Aren't the Right Standards to Apply Outside of Academics

I agree with a traditional critique of intellectual standards, which is basically that's a lot of the times they don't work. And also they take too long. Academic standards in many cases do the same thing. Peer review is just. Why? Like, it doesn't seem to accomplish the goal of kind of preserving that kind of integrity that it's it claims to do. It shows no signs of life in terms of actually functioning and doing that. But yes, I mean, in terms of you on in general. This is this is quite a tough question.

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