T. Greer
โข Director @CSTranslate โข Essayist https://t.co/QAwli8kcMU โข Long takes on ๐จ๐ณ politics, ๐บ๐ธ conservatism, ancient history โข Old tweets on auto-delete!
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https://t.co/2zXma4T45j The way to understand a lot of these takes is that there was generation of officers who saw the Corps gutted by Vietnam, and their formative experiences wa...
Two years I wrote a viral essay. Its central thesis: Where Americans once asked โhow do we solve this problem?โ they now ask โhow do we get management on my side?โ But how did Ame...
Despairing a bit as I read the Iraq commentary on Twitter. Like Covid, something people canโt learn from because they would rather have recriminations.
My contribution to the National Reviewโs round table on the 20th anniversary of the defining catastrophe of my generation, the invasion of Iraq https://t.co/1MqJVYZKzV My entry f...
New Essay: Watch Xi Jinping Slowly Strangle the Dengist Economic Paradigm https://t.co/GfDyCvqx9h Slogan by slogan Xi Jinping is tearing down Dengist program. Now in his crossha...
There rises the question here of what academia is *for.* The question matters because academics have always been somewhat parasitic on society writ large, subsidized by others to...
https://t.co/AxTFARnTuS Frustrating essay by @NotoriousTIB. It starts with a list of social ills that are explicitly identified as problems that dramatically worsened b/t "1990 and...
Panic is a myth based in fictional narrative, not historical fact. Fear serves a valuable purpose; the role of government and media is not to stifle it, but inform it. https://t...
Fundamentally the question I am asking with these threads is: is AI more like electrification and combustion engines or more like cloud computing or social media? Technologies that...
There are very political answers to why this has happened, but they donโt dig deep enough. You see in scholarship what you see in many of the arts: a crisis of ambition, declinin...
I have been doing interviews & research on the question of โwhen would Beijing decide to pull the trigger on Taiwan, and why then?โ The most convincing argument I encountered for...
Humans inevitably rely on patterns to understand the present. Behind most decisions is a historical metaphorโand if not that, some social science model or some fictional scene. Th...