Andrew Richards

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Based in Reading, UK. Mathematical modelling, forecasting, synthetic environments. Intersted in mostnthings, particularly being wrong.
Show threadAndrew RichardsNov 21, 2022
@TheRealTraceyDelaney I recall watching Eyes on the Prize as a teenager, and discovering (I live in the UK) how shockingly recently the US was essentially an apartheid state. My impression, at least from this side of the Atlantic, is that what freedoms have been won in the past fifty years are being severely eroded.
Andrew RichardsNov 19, 2022

Yesterday I watched a recording of a debate at the Cambridge Union. It was impassioned but of low quality.

But it got me thinking: maybe the reason we get so many unsuitable politicians is because they often come through the ranks of university debating societies.

The rules of competitive debating mean you are given a proposition to defend or oppose, and what matters is the ability to construct and deliver a persuasive argument, and to win, regardless of the true merits of the proposition.