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Check out the paper Jason Brennan and I just published in Economics and Philosophy: “Against Laissez-Faire Democracy”
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How Trump is like AI slop: "Our participants explicitly told us that because brain-rot content is visibly fake and/or A.I.-generated, it feels less exploitative than polished influencer posts pretending to be candid."
nytimes.com/2026/09/08/opini…
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This is a consistent, bad weakness in political reporting: journalists who have conclusive evidence that a politician is lying tend to conclude the politician is telling THEM the truth.
There is a lot of good reporting in this article but can we really just say that J.D. Vance opposed the war with Iran when his entire record of public statements consists of him supporting it?
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RT @reihan: What would the U.S. look like with much higher union density and public employment; a much, much higher share of households in…
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I am fascinated by the inability of people to process the actual argument about market theory and the price system that Mises/Hayek/Kirzner/Lavoie were making and why the fundamental problem with socialism is neither an incentive issue nor a computational complexity argument. Of course, socialism must face those two problems, but the deeper problem is one of the generation of the knowledge in the first place, and the contextual nature of that knowledge. Remove the context, the knowledge isn't difficult to process, IT IS NOT THERE. As Buchanan once tried to convey -- the market order is defined in the process of its emergence, and this is an open ended and creative process. Mechanism design theory never had an answer to this, and still does not.
It is for this reason that i fundamentally do not understand leftist hostility to AI: it is the only currently plausible mechanism by which the classical Marxist objective of a wealthy industrial society based on a non-market economy could, potentially, be achieved.
cc’ @lenitiv
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I explain why the socialist claim that workers are forced to sell their labor under capitalism is not compelling in my piece, “How Capitalism Preserves Liberty”:
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This is good article. Although I wish it weren't so: "Republican voters are happy to see spending cuts on the margins, especially if the cuts don’t touch public education or university spending. They are delighted to get tax cuts from surplus state revenue. But they reject cutting core state spending even if it would put money in their pockets through tax cuts" wapo.st/4zLppmk
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*This* is the spirit of gratitude.
Every time I am tempted to lose faith in the power of optimism, I remember that every week, some hardy soul thinks "She has been writing for 25 years, and I am going to be the first person to email her this devastatingly scatalogical insult", and I am refreshed.
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Iranian threats to shipping are subject to the same sort of leakage as US sanctions...
Hormuz Oil Shuttling Trade Is Picking Up Again After Lull gcaptain.com/hormuz-oil-shut…
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Chokepoints are generally less effective in practice than in theory because people find varied ways around them. As true for the Strait of Hormuz as it is for US sanctions and blockades.
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It is not a coincidence that socialism is more popular among people with high social and educational capital and less popular among the working class––both cohorts understand who is best able to game centrally planned systems.
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This is an underappreciated point about behavioral economics. Where individual irrationality operates in a competitive market, individuals don't suffer from the irrationality much because the market smooths all that out. E.g. the dumbest person gets a fair price when buying IBM.
A good illustration of why financial markets are useful is that what the risk-averse person really wants to do in this situation is *sell* the 50-50 lottery to the most risk-tolerant person they can find for $499,000.
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Tyler Cowen: America Isn’t an Oligarchy thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-amer…
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"The older the problem, the older the solution. How to eat well is one of the oldest problems." - @naval
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The two word explanation for this is "sour grapes"
The manosphere is full of late bloomers who mistake their own romantic failures for a universal law of male life.
A lot of these manosphere guys strike me as late bloomers. They were not getting laid in high school, in college, or throughout their twenties. Then they assume their own experience is typical of men in general.
So they advise their followers, “Don’t worry about women in your teens or twenties. Just focus on making money and becoming successful. Then, when you’re an alpha male in your thirties, some hot 19-year-old will be attracted to you.”
But that is not how relationship formation usually works. If you look at the data, a 19-year-old woman is much more likely to date a 22-year-old man. She is in college, and she will probably date someone a few years older who is slightly more mature or successful. The average attractive woman in her teens or twenties is not looking for some 38-year-old influencer.
These manosphere guys have a warped view of what happens in typical relationships because many of them have never really had an normal relationship themselves.
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