[FRIAM] the arc of ai (was Re: Whew!)

[glen ☣]

Fantastic pattern recognition, Roger. We can combine anti-emminence-based concept of white privilege with Kazynski's (negative) interpretation of the more tightly integrated social fabric ("will have to be ever more reliable, conforming and docile, because they will be more and more like cells of a giant organism.") and with Merle and Frank's discussion of credentials.

I push (politically) for high-density housing and against the maintenance of roads and the building of parking structures.  Yet, I spent the weekend reorganizing my garage so that I can fit either of my two gas guzzling pickup trucks in there at will.  My intellectual activity says we _should_ be efficacy-based and should not be emminence-based.  Yet my bodily activity says this is my turf and I want to be able to organize it according to my desires.

The good news is that I caught the neighbor kids dancing to the psytrance I'd been blaring all day long ... infecting their vulnerable "minds" with mood-altering waves.


On 05/08/2017 08:25 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> Harking back to an earlier complaint from Marcus about blatant and lazy appeals to authority, which may have been in another thread altogether, this
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>   http://andrewgelman.com/2017/05/07/discussion-lee-jussim-simine-vazire-eminence-junk-science-blind-reviewing/
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> introduced me to the formulation "eminence based reasoning".  There's also a bit in there about the existential terror of blind reviewing.
> 
> But it also recalls my earlier life as a random tenant in a house of Harvard seniors living off campus in 1969, the first year Harvard undergraduates were allowed to live off campus.  They were mostly members of the Students for a Democratic Society, but they thought the Weatherman faction was a joke.  So they made up their own faction of SDS, Juiced In It, from the immortal Dylan lyric "Sure you went to the finest schools all right but all you ever used to do was get juiced in it."  Which has forever since echoed in my mind when I find myself scanning for eminent scholarly affiliations.

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☣ glen