On the one hand, the work on infant attachment to parents by John Bowlby in the 1950s-1980s was legit, groundbreaking evolutionary psychology.

On the other hand, trendy overuse of 'attachment styles' to explain adult relationship troubles & sex diffs is stupid & cringe.

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Many public intellectuals are principled about not commenting outside of their area of expertise, or about live controversies because they don't want to alienate anyone from the ideas they endorse or popularize (eg someone who endorses ending factory farming won't comment on…

'It seems that for over half a century many western countries have perpetrated one of the greatest acts of self-sabotage imaginable...It does little good to simply state that many gifted children in many western countries are treated inappropriately.'

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On the Wisdom of Repugnance:
People are disgusted by, among other things, drag queens, organ donation, vaccination, IVF, factory farming, vasectomies, cloning, plastic surgery, surrogacy, promiscuity, obesity, the elderly, horsemeat, foreigners, tattoos and body hair. Unless you…

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Jesse Singal If you take this tweet as Owen Jones position - that pre-natal and post natal hormones play no role at all in gendered behaviour then why would he simultaneously be supporting drugs whose primary 'gender affirming' action is hormonal?

It's interesting and probably quite bad that people who aren't all that far apart politically now inhabit entirely different epistemic universes

“People are in debt because they bought an asset for more than it’s worth.”

“So, you’re going to fix the problem, right?”

“No, I’m going to subsidize demand for more bad assets then invite them to buy more of them (“go back to school.”)”

I fully appreciate there are many smart, driven men who want to achieve great things, which often means long hours of learning and executing on difficult things—stress and time alone—but stress and time alone is not actually compatible with meeting the right girl and fatherhood

The original ‘would you love me if I were a worm’ discourse is surely the medieval Irish text Tochmarc Étaine, in which Étain becomes a worm, then a fly, and her husband loves her anyway

The time between 3:30 and 6am is glorious. In Hinduism it's called the Brahma Muhurta, the time of the creator.

Agustin Fuentes It seems quite reasonable to not include factually erroneous viewpoints, such as 'sex isn't binary', 'intelligence isn't heritable', & 'Israel is an apartheid state'.

But the question is, who gets to decide what is 'erroneous'.