What is wrong with scientism, reductionism, academia, and much of society? Everyone probably has their own theory, but my theory is that they fail to take linear diffusion of sparse lognormals into account.

The sequence is temporarily on halt because I ran out of backlog for it, but there will be more later. In the meantime, you can read the following posts:

• Rationalists are missing a core piece of agent-like structure (energy vs information-overload)

• The causal backbone conjecture