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Scott Alexander

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I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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Scott Alexander @ScottAlexander · Mar 16, 2017
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Overall I did like this book. I’m not really sure what I got from its thesis, but maybe that was appropriate. Seeing Like A State was arranged kind of like the premodern forests and villages it describes; not especially well-organized, not really directed toward any clear predetermined goal, but full of interesting things and lovely to spend some time in.

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott
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