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In the paper, Boden and Epstein described how a government that tries to base its policy on evidence can actually end up producing corrupted data because it "seeks to capture and control the knowledge producing processes to the point where this type of 'research' might best be described as '[policy-based evidence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy-based_evidence_making)'."
Campbell's law
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And so the land is heavily taxed to subsidize an ‘affluence’ that consists, in reality, of health and goods stolen from the unborn.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Embedded deep in the technium (as we now know it) is the remarkable capacity of half-again annual improvement. The optimism of our age rests on the reliable advance of Moore’s promise: that stuff will get significantly, seriously, desirably better and cheaper tomorrow. If the things we make will get better the next time, that means that the golden age is ahead of us, and not in the past.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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