Given the name, I'd feel a bit more comfy if there were greater
representation from biology or, gods forbid, genetics...also, no
phenomenologists (e.g. Sabine) out there.
Appendix 4 in
https://evolution-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Final-CE-Conceptual-Framework-Mar-4-2015.pdf
is interesting wrt concerns expressed here. (I found myself relating to
the McElreath comments, not that I know diddly...)
On 6/29/15 9:01 PM, glen wrote:
That's a great point. But I suppose it all depends on who composes it. To say
a group like this will advocate foolishly or manipulate without admitting that
every other group, without exception(!), advocates foolishly and manipulates,
is to place too much burden on these particular people. We all do our best to
balance what we think should happen against worries that interference could go
wrong. (Some of us are better at that balance than others. But that's also
true of everyone about everything ... which makes it a useless statement.)
In the end, to be against something before it's even begun is a bit silly, I think.
Personally, I'm neutral. But it's interesting in the same way Lessig's May One or the
genetic literacy project are interesting ... and manipulative. Even more political is
the interesting "neoreactionary" movement. I'm even neutral about that, though
I think I'm starting to turn a bit against it. The trick, as we've been discussing, is
to never flip the bit one way or the other.
On 06/29/2015 07:43 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
I am afraid I have not been following this closely enough to know the white
hats from the black hats. I think one of the dimensions of disagreement here
is on the possibility of social planning. If one thinks that the subject
matters studied by sociologists and economists are essentially chaotic, then
social planning is either foolish or manipulative … like bishops telling
parishioners to defer gratification so they, the bishops, can live opulent
lives in the Bishop’s Palace. As a consequence of running such a scam, the
Vatican runs half of Rome, right? That new society sounds like a reforming and
a planning lot. That’s as far as my thinking has gotten on this. As you see,
it’s not very far.
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