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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h

Another Meehlian note: he claimed that the average IQ of a U Minn psychology professor was 150.

Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 16h

I sometimes wonder if a certain author worried that the bane of Thulsa Doom, visited upon his namesake, would return for him.

Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 17h

We use a type of personnel management system called this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corners..., and I don't think anyone gets my Infocom jokes about it, which is very much what I deserve.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

tiger:elephant::giraffe:?, which I assume was the question, is kind of hard? An outlier from Miller Analogies, I must assume. (Acacia?, but do tigers eat elephants)

Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

Paul Meehl: "So far as I know from extensive reading in biography and history of science, _not one major theoretical contribution was the work of a committee_." True? Very likely. Implications? There are none, how dare you.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

I collect inspirational footnotes and share them from time to time:

Here's the OCR transcription of the text in the image:

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*The Making of Victorian England* (London, 1962), 14. In fact I tried to count and failed. Some time ago I spent the better part of two years coding the evaluative language used in thousands of historians' book reviews, punching IBM cards, and attempting to correlate the language employed with dozens of other variables having to do with historians' generation, field, status, etc. It was a total waste of time, producing nothing intelligible and permanently dampening my enthusiasm for introducing quantitative rigor into intellectual history.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps it is not as understudied or unremarked as I imagine, but psychometrician types who become convinced of their own extraordinary ability through high performance on tests they design are worthy of sustained reflection of the "but for the grace" type.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 3d

Help me summarize my key wins this quarter!

Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 4d

I support all Codex Sera.-related content.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 6d

A New Yorker piece from the 1930s mentions it, citing a World Almanac from around the turn of the century as the source. Didn't save the link, alas.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 6d

Got a little confused by the news, so I was looking up "plato tattoo," and it turns out there are several philosophical commentaries on the ethics and aesthetics of bodily adornment footnoting that doughty (not doughy, despite his name) figure.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 6d

He seemed like he had a strong naturalist interest, so I can't tell if he believed it, a kind of joke, etc.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 6d

I know it was in the almanac, but still it's a little credulous of Davenport to claim that geese lived for centuries.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 6d

Reading a book with my good Dutch, Letters from an Earthapple Eater.

Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 13d

Putting The Conchologist's First Book (1839) as an id item on exam.

Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 14d

To an impressive degree, it's all already in Lem.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 14d

It's a theory-of-mind thing. Arrows pass harmlessly through their rib cages, so they assume others will enjoy the thrill. Don't blame---educate!

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 14d

For certain basic researches in literary science, I'm currently reading through every JSTOR entry for "marie roget" OR "marie rogêt" (trust but verify), and I came across "The Symbol of the Archaic" again, which I had to re-read, even though it's a cursory reference. It's just that damn good.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 16d

Ooh, a minor update to biblatex-swiss-legal!

Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 16d

I enjoy Slow Horses, but I'd like it even more if it were a pure office comedy, perhaps with a subtle bit of The Prisoner ‘vibe.’

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 18d

Why is The Pound Era on that list? I should be well equipped to answer that question but have no idea.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 19d

It definitely seems like it is colonizing some lifeworlds.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 21d

I remember a long, fan-fiction style excursus on the subjects of rationalism, AI dangers, consciousness-uploading, Russian cosmism, the computer, and such topics called "The Canons of Joffrey." I can't find it anywhere.

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 22d

Digimon is real? Does that imply the same for Digimon Otis?

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Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 23d

I continue to experience this with John from Cincinnati, so I know what it's like.

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