What's the backstory to the "In defense of merit" paper? How did these 29 authors come together? It didn't just happen spontaneously....
It was Thursday night and we were chilling on the intellectual dark web. Jordan was torrenting the James Watson bootleg that just dropped. Pinker was like “You know what doesn’t matter in science anymore?” Cowen guessed “GRE scores?” but no and Lindsay said “the art of the blade?” and everyone was all wait how the fuck did he get back in here and by the time that got sorted it was bedtime but when Pinker dropped a truth bomb “merit” we knew there would be no sleep to be has for us that night.
@ct_bergstrom Pearl knew it was time. “Pinker, you’re on our side. Sign on to the paper”.
Pinker silently worried his Jeffrey Epstein pendant as he gazed into space. He shook his head and a spray of silver curls and hair product drifted into the sunbeam entering the window of his Cape Code beach house window and down into the pair of alligator skin boots next to the commemorative “Time 100 Most Influential people” plaque on his desk.
“Confound it, Judea, I just can’t do it. It collides with my other responsibilities and my reputation. It can’t be seen as my cause now.” A collective groan filled the room.
@ct_bergstrom Inspired by the master!
@twitskeptic that’s beautiful, Joe