When intelligence is no longer required for survival, it is instead expended on ever more baroque ways of being wrong.
Jun 042020
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
May 222020
Just as there are ideas so mad that you must be clever to believe them, so there is behavior so weird that you must be clever to engage in it.
Apr 282020
No matter how bad your argument is, you can be sure it’s not original.
Apr 202020
There are no double standards, only invidious criteria.
Apr 132020
There is small reason to believe, outside of a few specialized fields, that a proposition is correct because it can be persuasively argued for.
Jan 172020
It is natural, if you believe that speech is violence, to believe that violence is speech.
Jan 082020
There’s no shame in being wrong, only in not paying for it.
Nov 252019
People will swallow just about any story. Only when it’s not a story do we refuse to swallow it.
Nov 112019
Problems without solutions do less harm than solutions without problems.
Oct 162019
I am working toward a world in which someday someone will be so wrong, so often, that he will just stop talking.