{"id":7458,"date":"2024-06-14T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2024-06-14T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:12:45","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/06\/14\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-457","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 457"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is vol\u00adume 457, the sum of three con\u00adsec\u00adu\u00adtive primes (149 + 151 + 157) and also appar\u00adent\u00adly the index of a prime Euclid num\u00adber, but I would be lying if I said I knew what that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. The case for show\u00ading up to church\u2014even if you don\u2019t believe in God<\/a> (Emma Camp, Amer\u00adi\u00adca): \u201cBut despite my reg\u00adu\u00adlar church atten\u00addance for almost two years now, I still haven\u2019t devel\u00adoped a rock-sol\u00adid faith. I\u2019ve joked\u2014and said as much on Twitter\u2014that I only believe in God about 30 per\u00adcent of the time on a good day. My ambiva\u00adlence does set me apart from most of my friends from church, a group that includes a few sem\u00adi\u00adnar\u00adi\u00adans. But it doesn\u2019t keep me from com\u00ading back.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs<\/a> (Ruxan\u00addra Tes\u00adlo, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cTo for\u00admal\u00adize this: \u2018Any sys\u00adtem that is not explic\u00adit\u00adly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pret\u00adty quick\u00adly.\u2019 <\/em>That is because most peo\u00adple, while lik\u00ading non-con\u00adformism in the abstract and post-fac\u00adto, are not very will\u00ading to actu\u00adal\u00adly put up with the per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty trade-offs of Weird Nerds in prac\u00adtice. There is an increas\u00ading num\u00adber of peo\u00adple right now who are think\u00ading about how to build bet\u00adter intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal insti\u00adtu\u00adtions\u2026 it\u2019s worth think\u00ading about what kind of peo\u00adple one wants to attract in these insti\u00adtu\u00adtions and how to keep them there. And I believe the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion here starts with accept\u00ading a sim\u00adple truth, which is that Weird Nerds will have cer\u00adtain traits that might be less than ide\u00adal, that these traits come \u2018in a pack\u00adage\u2019 with oth\u00ader, very good traits, and if one makes fil\u00adter\u00ading or pro\u00admo\u00adtion based on the absence of those traits a pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty, they will miss out on the pos\u00adi\u00adtives.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. An Object Les\u00adson From Covid on How to Destroy Pub\u00adlic Trust<\/a> (Zeynep Tufek\u00adci, New York Times): \u201cIf the gov\u00adern\u00adment mis\u00adled peo\u00adple about how Covid is trans\u00admit\u00adted, why would Amer\u00adi\u00adcans believe what it says about vac\u00adcines or bird flu or H.I.V.? How should peo\u00adple dis\u00adtin\u00adguish between wild con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy the\u00ado\u00adries and actu\u00adal con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcies?\u2026 As the expres\u00adsion goes, trust is built in drops and lost in buck\u00adets, and this buck\u00adet is going to take a very long time to refill.\u201d\n