WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER : PAUL ROMER (important) Paul hasn’t grasped **IT** quite y

WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER : PAUL ROMER

(important)

Paul hasn’t grasped **IT** quite yet, but he’s on the right track. He calls it “mathiness” but he doesn’t get the Operational Revolution yet.

I’m going to try to help him make the leap, but I suspect that he’ll not get it either. Time is a painful thing. I soldier onward.

Fortunately, I’m outside of the academy and the academy’s perverse incentives don’t affect me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Romer

MATHINESS PAPER

http://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Mathiness.pdf

CURRENT LIST OF THE PEOPLE REFORMING THE CENTURY OF PSEUDOSCIENCE:

The Emerging Consensus :

– Paul Romer (mathematics or ‘Mathiness’ )

– Nassim Taleb (anti-fragility) or, information requirements.

– Ricardo Duchesne (uniqueness of western man)

– Kevin Macdonald (group evolutionary strategies)

– Curt Doolittle (Truth, Trust, Law, and Institutions)

— Jonathan Haidt’s (morality)

— Pinker (who started it all – psychology)

— Daniel Kahneman (mind)

– Stephen Hicks (Postmodernism) (Reluctantly Associated I’m sure)

– Nial Ferguson (Economics) (Possibly Reluctantly Associated)

– Martin van Creveld (The Culture of Warfare)

– Emmanuel Todd (The Evolution of Western Morality and Identity)

— Meng Hu (statistics ‘anecdote is not data’)

– Steven Hsu (statistics, intelligence and genetics)

– Jayman (genetics and history)

– HBD Chick (the institutions of marriage and family)