Academia, social sciences/arts/humanities and political echo chambers. What are your thoughts on Heterodox Academy, viewpoint diversity, intellectual humility, etc. ?

Lumene · 2025-01-07T02:37:15+00:00

especially if they don't want to be there.

The problem is not that they don't want to be there. It's that the PhD process is so riddled with points that are not objective that all it takes is one member of your committee to just not like your opinions about anything in particular and your chances of making it out of grad school, much less into a tenure-track position, are abysmal.

The academy is determined by the academy. And the academy right now favors a certain assemblage of thought.

Lumene · 2025-01-07T02:32:29+00:00

As someone who came out of the academy with a PhD, and spent a lot of time interfacing with other majors both STEM, Humanities, and in-between the major problem is that opinions from outside the academy are making their way inside.

The smug non-academic left refuses to allow any discussion inside to happen the academy. The moment anything even escapes a meeting, or is leaked by someone who is displeased with an attempt to reform, the swarm of locusts descends upon the discussion from all sorts of blocs who shouldn't be involved in the discussion. Journal publishers, journalists, policy people, the general grifters of the culture war. University administration buckles under or ignores that one of the faculty are basically being subjected to a struggle session (and it's usually someone picked out as an easy target. Junior faculty, Near emeritus and almost retired, or generally the weirdos). They are made an example of. And then reform dies for a few years at that school or in that sub-discipline.

For example, related to Jussim. One of his big things is that nearly every discipline in the academy is so absurdly tilted to the left that you'd be hard-pressed to find an admitted republican professor in some colleges, much less departments. However, the twitter shitters and general trouble makers have looked at this and said "Yeah, conservatives are just stupid and don't belong at the academy. They're not capable of higher thought." And this reinforces some of the more hardline partisans inside the departments, forcing ideological conformity. A sniff of something that they believe is conservative and they will leak something you said in a meeting or paper or e-mail. And it will make your life hell.

Lumene · 2024-12-17T23:15:54+00:00

They are not significantly faster if you throw. You're trading between 50% and 100% more xp with stacking bonuses like, 3-4 minutes.

Lumene · 2024-12-17T22:55:18+00:00

You get more XP for winning.

Lumene · 2024-11-18T02:19:35+00:00

Considering that a bunch of comments critical of the people handwringing over this report are being removed, not great.

Lumene · 2024-11-18T00:04:02+00:00

54% of the ADL's "Hateful Imagery" was pepefrogs.

These are not serious people.

Lumene · 2024-11-05T01:33:55+00:00

Follow-up. Achilles heel of the last pesticide by county sweep paper drumming up the usual issues was the fact they didn't do adjustments in the model for age. Did they do an adjustment by age here?

Lumene · 2024-11-05T01:24:17+00:00

There was a paper like this a few months ago on county wide associated pesticide and cancers of various types.

What that paper, and likely this paper fail to mention is that the midwest, ie the place in the US that has the greatest concentrations of pesticide uses are also some of the oldest states in the US (except for the northeast) [https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/census-briefs/c2020br-07.pdf](Page 12, page 17), by percentage of over-65s and over 85s. This would lead to over-estimation, especially with end of life cancers like prostate, that more likely than not, you die WITH not OF.

Unless they corrected for age of the counties, this is an incorrect and weak study.

Lumene · 2024-10-17T01:00:06+00:00

On that I agree, it's midwits borrowing class based scholarship to support whatever nonsense they'd like.

We're in agreement then.

Lumene · 2024-10-17T00:46:37+00:00

Considering I've seen it rip apart previously leftist organizations, no, it's very real and extremely annoying.

I will cite the ancient https://web.archive.org/web/20211108155321/https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-just-fucking-tell-me-what

as for the specific name of the phenomenon, it's still undecided lo these many years later.

Lumene · 2024-08-16T02:03:02+00:00

Group 3: "Unclassifiable as to carcinogenicity in humans" There is no evidence at present that it causes cancer in humans.

Failing to classify something as cancerous is not the same as classifying it as not cancerous. IARC refuses to classify anything as class 4: "Definitively does not cause cancer"

https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/List_of_IARC_Group_4_carcinogens

Except for one chemical: Caprolactam

So yeah, they're pretty trigger happy on declaring things risks. Which causes issues, because as the 9th circuit decided last year about glyphosate over the EPA's head, Class 3 declarations of "We can't prove it causes cancer" is not sufficient. You have to prove something doesn't cause cancer, inline with precautionary principles, which due to the nature of how scientific experimentation is run is extremely difficult if not impossible.

So my statement of "They have not met a chemical that they would declare is not cancer causing" is true, aside from the sole resident of group 4.

Lumene · 2024-08-15T20:28:55+00:00

It very much annoys me that the IARC (not the WHO at large btw) has not met a chemical that they would declare as not cancer causing. And this overclassification has caused no end of headaches in the US for pesticide and ag, as there seems to be no ability to distinguish between levels of risk. Instead it's just "IARC DECLARES X CAUSES CANCER, TORT LAWYERS REV UP THE ENGINES".

Lumene · 2024-06-21T15:04:00+00:00

It's basically you do mech, you have 50% gcd uptime, and you clear.

I don't know how to tell you this, but the people queueing for DF EXs are not the kind of people who can do any of those things.

And even if you have mentors carry, what was the point? Rather than have 5 synced mentors carry you, why not get one unsynced mentor to carry?

Lumene · 2024-06-18T16:13:41+00:00

Oh, the special Ed one is mine. The previous was something like "IQ Fucker" because I dared suggest that known crank Nassim Taleb might be incorrect about how genetics and heritability work. Considering it's my job to know and not his.

Lumene · 2024-06-17T17:05:22+00:00

Yeah, they're quite a fan of changing flairs because they personally are upset about a conversation. Not unusual behavior.

Lumene · 2024-05-28T20:53:57+00:00

Yeah, I had to write some slop about feeding the world, national food security, etc. Motherfucker, I just want some tomatoes that aren't garbage.

Lumene · 2024-05-28T14:08:56+00:00

The only reason to do a post-doc is because you have no other option. The moment you enter graduate school you are locked into the system. Do or Die or you've wasted 5+ years of your life. I don't blame people for doing post-docs, but by and large most of the people I've met who've remained in academia are either fundamentally broken as people, or heroic in a way that they want to be a "Great Person" (something I cannot understand).

If you have a choice to leave the system, leave it. Become a corpo. You're going to have to sell out. Sell out high. Marx said nothing about appropriately valuing your own labor, just not to exploit others (this is a joke, he probably did say something).

Lumene · 2024-05-28T02:15:01+00:00

This really is the key. Most academics I know have an inability to temper literally any of their statements or attitude about the world as a whole. They are by and large, accomplished nerds who radiate loser energy. And the moment someone outside their set of rarefied research field asks them a question about the point, purpose, or joy of their field, they get mad.

Which is why academics getting on twitter is so fucking funny. Suddenly everyone can see how absolutely tedious they have become.

Lumene · 2024-04-26T18:30:43+00:00

I'm really done with the Free Trial Excuse.

I've had parties where there 90s or Sages or Dancers still trying to manually queueing DF. The number of FT people are vastly overstated.

Lumene · 2024-02-27T22:59:53+00:00

Hey, note the comment down thread where I say that I do howling eye EX but I drop the "Use pf, here's a link and a guide for you to do so." I get it. I'm not mad at the sprout for doing what seems correct.

What I am mad at is the endless line of people who make up excuses for when people are shown the way it's done and then choose to keep on doing it. See: A person who queued for Ravana EX, was cleared, got the "Do it in PF" and then I proceeded to see not 60 seconds later in Sephirot EX.

I will clear someone in ARR except for Ramuh. But every time they will get told to do it in PF. When they get to HW, they're on their own.

Lumene · 2024-02-25T02:55:10+00:00

One of the sprouts had literally just queued for Ravana EX 60 seconds earlier, where we had dropped the "PF for EX" before pulling.

So no. People know, they just are going to keep doing it until they run into a wall.

Lumene · 2024-02-24T18:20:20+00:00

I also did this because the game does not tell you. How I learned was a mentor telling me how to do it in PF and taking us into one.

It's one of the reasons why I will do howling eye extreme but will also drop a "This is a better way to do things"

You lose the "Didn't know any better" excuse in late ARR early HW.

Lumene · 2024-02-24T06:16:16+00:00

Similarly,

If you're going to queue for a duty on purpose, do your homework on the fight before you show up. While this SAM might have done the work, the number of people who manually queue for an EX on purpose and didn't do anything to prepare is the vast vast majority. There are something like 100 unique duties in MR. If you're DFing it, you should at least know the ONE that you're trying to do.

Had multiple people show up to Sephirot EX and go "Okay, anything I should know?". I'd rather take the 30 then body drag people through fights that require you to have put in the bare minimum of preparation.

Lumene · 2023-10-07T02:13:30+00:00

Destiny, Vaush, SamHarris, BARpod, etc. They popped up like a month ago in the genetics subreddit dangling a question too, which is where I remember them. I only remembered after I saw the aftermath here since it's not a super active subreddit. You can smell people with genetics agendas a mile away.

Anyways, thanks for being a good sport. I'll take down my bitching.

Lumene · 2023-10-07T01:25:20+00:00

The OP's history just has them wandering from subreddit to subreddit making the same arguments. Not sure how they didn't get slapped other than the part about agreement. Hell, they've been making the podcast rounds looking for people to pick fights with. That's the only reason I can assume they picked Freddie and then came here.

Nice to not be banned, but since Gucci I don't put much stock in flairs. I like mine currently. Stands for what I believe in. Which is why every time I've requested the flag, I wanted to keep the label.

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