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Evolution of Beauty was a great book, but it was a little depressing how the author had to face a ton of entrenched academic prejudice to get his theory out. T
by creaghpatr 9y ago
Evolution of Beauty was a great book, but it was a little depressing how the author had to face a ton of entrenched academic prejudice to get his theory out.
That aspect alone is more interesting than the actual book, which focuses on Darwin's The Descent of Man arguments that have been marginalized due to their implications rather than their accuracy. Lots of interesting bird trivia, too, if you're into that.
- metalliqaz 9y agoEven in 2017, mankind is still trying to move from eminence-based science to evidence-based science.
- infogulch 9y agoEminence helped slow down science down enough to be digested throughout the community in the pre-internet era. Eminence was a proxy for a level-0 filter on good science. As the world moves to become more connected than ever, eminence is too slow and inefficient. Hopefully we can come out of this with evidence as the new king and not some other proxy. We're gonna have to make some changes to get there. (Publication bias, replication prejudice, preregistration, better statistics, reporting accuracy...)
- FractalNerve 9y agoI really like your thinking and believe that there is an eminent truth behind it. Such that loose social connectedness naturally procreates the development of such proxies as a form of stabilization mechanism. What I'd really like to understand and see visualized are the non-linear social dynamics presented in manifold theory.