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82: Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth Sandifer
I Don't Speak German
Bayes and Probability
Ciskins practical effects hugely read in Silicon Valley crowds has been to legitimize scientific racism and eugenics among tech people. It is bad thinking that they learnt on less roll. They will absolutely always choose to start from first principles apply their own brilliance and then decide that they understand the world. So there's things like Bayesian epistemology, which is Harry Potter and the bath that's a rationale. But applying Bayes in real statistics is really, really hard to do.
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