Human Economics

Oct 11 JDN 2461325 I have discussed before the notion of a motte and bailey, in which uses ambiguity to present a view in two different forms: A motte, which is highly defensible but often banal or uncontroversial, and a bailey, which is highly interesting

Oct 4 JDN 2461318 Libertarians are fond of economic parables.

Sep 27 JDN 2461311 Hanlon’s Razor tells us: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Sep 13 JDN 2461297 I am writing this on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, perhaps the most vivid moment in recent history in which religious beliefs directly caused horrific violence.

I have always appreciated how weird gender is as a concept, and always felt like being considered a boy (and later, a man) wasn’t so much wrong as arbitrary, like okay, sure, I have certain anatomical features, and maybe there are some good reasons to keep

Aug 30 JDN 2461283 News of my death has been greatly exaggerated.

Jul 26 JDN 2461248 Since the very beginning, journalists have been sanewashing Trump and his cronies: Whenever he or one of them says something absolutely absurd, they always try to find some more sensible way of rephrasing it as a vaguely-similar concept…

Jun 28 JDN 2461220 What do you suppose are the chances that, within the next 10 years, AGI is invented and ushers in a new era of abundance in which hardly anyone has to work and we all live in prosperity?

Jun 21 JDN 2461213 I’m calling it now: We officially live in the dystopian cyberpunk future.

May 31 JDN 2461192 They call themselves effective accelerationists, co-opting the acronym EA from Effective Altruism despite being about as diametrically opposed as it is possible to be.

May 24 JDN 2461185 Content warning: Algebra In 2018, David Graeber published a book called Bullshit Jobs, positing that the transition of our economy from industrial manufacturing to ‘post-industrial’ services was in fact largely a transition from meaning…

May 17 JDN 246178 Why do I make less money than, say, Mr.

May 10 JDN 246171 Consider two corporations.

May 3 JDN 246164 I got into an argument a little while ago with an acquaintance of mine who is an avowed Marxist.