I truly do not understand how Noah Smith, a truly vapid and frankly unintelligent writer, makes it to the front page of this website so often. His writing goes whichever way is soothing to those with money and power.
Noah Smith definitely deserves this warning. All sorts of stories of ridiculous overconfidence & oversimplification in the the dumbest of reasonings, dating back for many many many years.
I'd assumed growing up others would also tend towards the ultra online, that the smart ones were pioneering a lifestyle of intelligence and consideration, of hunting for context to understand the tidbits er run across, to consider widely. I'd assumed networking would spawn & spread to help show the back stories of those who we read.
But today, the lack of social defense against bad and or incomeptent seems so so so resounding in the world.
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