it's 'weird' that the big 'wonk' politics guy got really into 'effective' altruism and the big statistics election guy became a lab leak truther. whoever could have seen this happening?1
It's a shame how the completely-non-ideological idea of "what if we just leave decisions to the smartest people who have the most information?"
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I mean, not me in 2012 or whenever Silver became big. I was still incredibly naive and bought in on the same stuff