THE MELTING POT THAT ISNT Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely sc

THE MELTING POT THAT ISNT

Data is data. Turns out that what we melt is purely scientific, legal, and commercial; and what doesn’t melt is family, morality, metaphysics, and therefore politics.

Or, what I would describe in Propertarian terms, as “explicitly calculable” implicit knowledge vs “inexplicitly calculable” tacit knowledge.

We can structure formal institutions only for a subset of knowledge.

Myth, tradition, ritual, family, morals, ethics, and manners are something that can also be institutionalized.

And that us the conservative vision: formal institutions are not enough.