April 2020

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April 30, 2020

“The Reality-Based Community” comes to an end

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I blogged here the death of its founder, Mark Kleiman. Now the blog itself is a a couple days from ending. Keith Humphreys gives an obituary for blogging generally here. I agree with Andrew Gelman that blogs > Twitter. If you want more nostalgia for blogs, T. Greer of Scholars Stage has some specific to “strategy” here.

 

April 6, 2020

Debate between Robin Hanson and Greg Cochran on COVID-19 variolation is now available

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People who didn’t watch it live after I linked to it can now see it here.

UPDATE: Presans has a recap here, although they often misspell Cochran as “Cochrane”. Less Wrong also also has a transcript of his earlier debate with Zvi here.