Barry Schachter
barryschachter.bsky.social
Barry Schachter
@barryschachter.bsky.social
risk guy, interested in phil. sci., AI risks, general semantics, society&technology, objective truth, leadership, books that make me think & opinions that are not my own. Warning: highly fallible, but good natured
I oughta stop checking this.
I oughta stop checking this.
I oughta stop checking this.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
One of the coolest things about {fill in blank} is how you can actually just never use it.

One of the coolest things about any tool is how you learn to use it as it best suits you.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Cassablanca
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Could one not code for the appearance of intelligence? This begs the question of an agreed definition of intelligence.
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Conspiracy theories are ties that bind groups together. Looking the other way as a strategy does not accomplish that, unless you argue that people don't have an inherent need to belong.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Samuelson put the last nail in the coffin of Political Philosophy. The Austrians have been fighting against this emphasis on elegant but perhaps not realistic mathematical representstion of economic ideas since before WWII, I think.
October 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I have read (can’t provide the source) that Pareto was the main culprit of the true mathefication of economics; that he had a bad case of physics envy. But in the Enlightenment context, if not Ricardo, surely some other political philosopher was eventually going to try to do this, no?
October 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I have thought that he should be for years. The management doesn't want a strategist or a thinker for manager. They want someone who players like, who follows Money Ball with blind allegiance; who doesn't understand that averages don't tell the entire statistical story. IMO
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Nothing wrong with the Yankees this series, except for mostly bad pitching, mostly bad hitting and consistently bad managing.
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Civil authorities should be calling this out now.
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM