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Eric Winsberg retweeted
Loved the substack teaser -- reminded me of your excellent piece in @chronicle
Looking forward to the book!
chronicle.com/article/we-nee…
Why I hate the fine tuning argument. A 🧵:
1. the parameters people take to be FTed are scale-dependent couplings, not timeless metaphysical dials. The theory in which they live is an effective theory. We have no idea what the fundamental theory is, or what its parameters are.
9. people sometimes then push back, but Eric, you cant do any science at all without some objective priors. Buts its a totally different thing to claim there's some magic prior or set of priors in the sky, and another to be indifferentists about this made up parameter space.
I wrote a short substack about my forthcoming book *Science without Deference*. I'm hoping to keep a series of these going until the book comes out (probably in a year, lol).
@Ayjchan @TracyBethHoeg @davidzweig @NIHDirector_Jay @DrWashburne @emilyakopp @Rebecca21951651 @nescio13 and many others are dramatis personae in the book.
Eric Winsberg retweeted
🔪"Politicians don’t just pursue the public good, and they don’t even just pursue votes. They pursue all kind of goodies. I want that lens for expert institutions."
Eric Winsberg retweeted
is microsoft teams the worst piece of software ever developed? we sent two reporters to investigate
what they found just before being checked into psychiatric hospitals will shock you
A lot of antiwar stuff, especially film, ends up trading on the aesthetics of war. Why would you use ride of the valkyries in an ostensbily anti-war movie? Even movies that are parodies of action moives end up being action movies. hard to avoid.
