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Everything Studies
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Everything Studies is a personal blog at everythingstudies.com about philosophy and politics. Since 2018, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Nerd as the Norm”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Everything Studies for essays on academic and scientific debates, such as a review of the sociobiology debate between Wilson and Lewontin. Commenters cite its posts as background reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I have an abstraction problem
Most-linked posts?
- /2018/05/25/decoupling-revisited/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-15
- The Nerd as the Norm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-17
- A Deep Dive into the Harris-Klein Controversy (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-09
What Hacker News says?
I could not disagree more. Wallace's use of language here is instructive, poignant, and immensely useFUL. I'll bet you're an engineer, data scientist, or other technical professional, not simply b/c you're here, but b/c your response to Wallace's use of ambiguity and multiple layers of meaning reveals as much about the nature of your own relationship with language, which I'd guess prefers that things should be clear…
Comment linking /2018/05/25/decoupling-revisited/
on “Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time”Submitted The Nerd as the Norm as a story · 43 points
HN discussionImagine RO is a former Amazon employee who was severely injured on the job and fired, whose life was destroyed by this faceless company, and who resents the sentiment that it is anything but. It is also a fun read imagining them this way. Yes, if the situation was different, than my judgement of it would be different. This is not a novel observation. The context matters - you cannot decouple[0] this interaction from…
Comment linking /2018/05/25/decoupling-revisited/
on “I feel like im talking to the borg”Submitted The Big List Of Existing Things (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's true that there's a fair amount of bullshit in humanities. However, thinking in terms of fuzzy categories like "grievance studies" is lossy and imprecise. It's not really a term which carves reality at the joints, so much as a general purpose tribal rallying cry for STEM people against a hated and feared outgroup. This kind of interdisciplinary tribal politics isn't constructive. Rounding off everyone in "griev…
Comment linking /2018/06/21/postmodernism-vs-the-pomoid-cluster/
on “Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor”Submitted A Deep Dive into the Harris-Klein Controversy (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think it's good to keep in mind the concept of signal and corrective[1] when reading this blog post. This blog is a corrective assuming an environment where people don't speak up enough about things that are going wrong. If you're in an environment where harsh criticism is regularly thrown out, to the point where everyone is constantly on guard and major CYA is the norm rather than the exception, this advice is no…
Comment linking /2017/12/19/the-signal-and-the-corrective/
on “Don’t Shy Away or Risk Cowardly Management”Submitted The Woke-Up Call: A Review of “Cynical Theories” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe sociobiology debate was a relatively high-profile and personal debate primarily between Wilson and Lewontin and their supporters. A good brief overview is given by John Nerst in his review of Segerstråle's "Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate": https://everythingstudies.com/2021/06/23/rereading-defenders... Lewontin doesn't come out covered in glory.
Comment linking /2021/06/23/rereading-defenders-of-the-truth/
on “Richard C. Lewontin, eminent geneticist with a sharp pen, has died”Submitted Notes on Notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's a fundamental problem of the political compass, since people's political beliefs are usually object-level or tribal rather than rooted in fundamental principles (for example, when their party controls the state congress but not the federal congress, they believe [ISSUE] is a matter of states' rights. When their party controls Washington but not the state legislature, they believe [ISSUE] is a Federal matter. I'…
Comment linking /2019/03/01/the-tilted-political-compass-part-1-left-and-right/
on “Where every major LLM stands politically”Submitted The Nerd as the Norm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Deep Dive into the Harris-Klein Controversy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All the a Trading Zone, and All the Languages Merely Pidgins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toxic Emissions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Platist Politics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good vs. Good as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wordy Weapons of Is-Ought Alloy as a story · 1 points
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