-Reduces explanatory power (if Moby-Dick and 50 Shades are the same, why has one been lauded for 100 years, minted the careers of countless academics, etc.?)

-Makes the world less interesting

For example, CaLPERS has ~45% of their assets under management in debt / real estate.

I object to this premise.

Trivial counterexample: Is it impossible to evaluate the quality of a novelist because we don't have a common understanding of the plot of a novel until after I've read it? Clearly not.

Even in a post-modernist literary paper you can still judge the writer's cohesiveness of thought and clarity of argument.

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>The correctness of the content is subjective. If the correctness of the content is objective, and mutually understood, then any confusion added during the writing is bad writing.

I also don't understand how post-modernism comes into it. Is talking about the theme of insanity in Hamlet any more objective/correct than writing about the influence of race in Moby-Dick? If so, how?

> And Ged kills a guy (which he didn't in the first three books) and gets to have sex right after, pretty explicitly as a reward - that was a bit of a "what the hell, author?" moment.

Two people with a long-standing attraction having sex after a life-or-death experience seems completely natural to me. Your framing of them having sex BECAUSE Ged killed a man is a misrepresentation of what happens in the book.

SBF’s situation is different in that the game ends as soon as someone defects.

The OP gestures towards a thesis ('here's why society's championing of cleverness is bad') and then spends paragraphs meandering around it.

Would be nice if the author defined what he thinks “strategy” is. It’s not obvious to me that the above is not strategy.

In general in business it seems the concept of strategy is whatever people need it to be in order for them to feel smarter than their coworkers.

Can't comment on intelligence distributions.

Looks right to me! Although interestingly it’s unclear which book / Book you’re referring to, as the expression comes from Exodus 2:22:

“And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.”

Thousands of outages were caused by “Wildlife (Squirrel)”—more than once it crossed my mind that this file was the last record of those squirrels’ lives on Earth!

I was imagining some sort of anonymized records database—turns out you can look up specific names which I agree yields some undesirable outcomes.

I'm certainly not going to be feeling outraged by medical records disclosure when I'm dead. Do with me what you will when I'm gone--I care more about my experience when I'm alive.