jsomae

I wouldn't consider "Jew" an ethnicity more than "Asian" -- several different ethnicities under one label.

Jew is a religion. Ashkenazi, Sefardi, Mizrahi are racial groups perhaps.

OK this makes sense to me now.

Looks like they're in A/B testing right now. You can have maximal impact by avoiding using twitter on those devices for the next few weeks.

I guess I would have called them "bad scientists" -- scientists who are bad at their job and hold everyone back. But still scientists.

For instance they correctly applied the scientific method in most other cases. They just were blind to or intentionally obstructive to certain things.

I try my best to be rational and apply Bayes' theorem now and then, but I am sure I am still missing some invisible monsters which will make me look arrogant or foolish in the future. I don't experiment much with software I am unfamiliar with, even if it could improve things at work. I do now and then of course, but should I allocate more time to trying new things? Yeah probably, but I don't, and my job still gets done.

Perhaps they meant to put the asterisk in Twitter's name like so: *

Sounds like you're saying The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is flawed because those pesky stubborn holdouts weren't scientists.

Maxwell's demon knowing in advance the exact state of the system isn't really practical as a solution. Sure you can concoct such a situation, but that isn't useful.

How could the earth be round? People would fall off the bottom.

Teach your son those things too.

and some will protest it.

That makes sense. Perhaps sweeping generalisations should be avoided out of concern such a response could be triggered. FWIW, there are loads of sweeping generalisations about women too. Even the ones that look innocuous bother me.