And then they will be forgotten, as Professor Ebbinghaus pointed out. Because that's the nature of learning stuff. There's a tension here, becuase the best chance of stopping things like this happeni… (View Post)

Two bits of golden-ageism; The best golden age is my young adulthood; everything was great then, and not just my body and social life. The second-best golden age is my time of maximum prestige and po… (View Post)

One of the things that happens as your mind goes... you revert to instinct and reflex action. In Trump's case, that reflex is to cosplay Dr Evil. In the other cases, the legal case was pretty pure Ma… (View Post)

Yup. With two important caveats. The really important one is that every organisation has a bias towards itself. That might be an argument against big organisations, but they are sometimes necessary. … (View Post)

See also Gove, Cummings, even Johnson to a degree. It's Orwell's theory of the Middle co-opting the Low to depose the High, then dumping them. See also the contempt when someone from an even less cha… (View Post)