Computer scientists today are in the position of economists in the early 2000s and Freudian psychiatrists in the 1950s

Here are last week’s social science posts on the blog:

• Lots of detail on the continuing “Q collar” scandal and why we should probably be doing more coverage of that sort of science-adjacent medical scams and less on repulsively self-promoting but ultimately less harmful academic grifters.

• Who were “The Makers of Public Policy” in 1965?

• Computer scientists today are in the position of economists in the early 2000s and Freudian psychiatrists in the 1950s

• People keep sending me AI slop that they want me to post on the blog.

• “Sane-washing”

• “Denial, when you are not part of it, is actually a terrifying thing. One watches one’s fellow humans doing things that will damage themselves, while being wholly unable to help.”

I was going to brag that our blog is entirely AI-free, but . . . why should we be “proud” of that? AI is an amazing technology! One might as well brag of being transistor-free, or electricity-free, or, for that matter, free of the process of iron smelting that has made our world society what it is.