Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning
For such a smart person, it surprises me that he seems to have missed the point of what is going on in &lt;insert politicized debate of the day here&gt;.<p>In modern Western thought, voices aren&#x27;t suppressed. Instead, they are politicized and used to put the speaker on a &quot;side&quot;. Then the people on that side will defend their side (although not always the speaker) using that person as a proxy for their side.<p>We see this in global warming, in nuclear power, in gender equality, in free speech rights, in gun rights, in nurture vs nature.<p>I can think of only two examples where something similar to the behavior called out in this article occurs in the modern West. The first is the &quot;neural network conspiracy&quot; where CIFAR funded research for years, until they suddenly won. The other is cold fusion, where there are persistent rumors that this wasn&#x27;t perhaps the dead end it was made out to be (I don&#x27;t have the expertise to evaluate that and tell if it is crackpots or not though).