@Doc_Licon

Philosopher @ASU_SHPRS. Ethics, AI, God. Emergent Ventures fellow @mercatus. Views my own. Wife: @Liconlaw Substack: https://xitter.cf/t.co/rYb9QCU0J4

 Apache Junction, AZ
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Joined February 2013
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Brian Kogelmann@bkogel8919h
Lottocracy is all the rage among political philosophers, but it’s natural to be uneasy about an untried system. Advocates cite successful real-world mini-publics as evidence. How much confidence should these give us? I examine this in my latest paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

What Do Mini‐Publics Prove?

Lottocracy is a novel political arrangement that replaces elected politicians with ordinary citizens selected at random. It is unlike any political system that currently exists, so it is natural to...

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Alex Hollings
@AlexHollings52Oct 24
I like AirBnb when I travel with my fam — it’s always tough keeping the three of us in one room for more than a few days. But if I’m going to pay your month’s mortgage with a 4-day stay, then also pay a cleaning fee, I’ve got zero sympathy for you having to take out the trash.
Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 23
JUST IN: Airbnb hosts threaten to strike after the company bans them from forcing guests to wash dishes, strip beds, or take out trash before checkout.
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That and neuroticism
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@jon_stewartmillOct 20
A friend says: "Academics tend to be massive conformists because success consists in the consensus opinion of one's peers. Investors or other business people tend to be much less conformist because success comes from being the first to do something no one else is doing, etc."
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Andrew M. Bailey
@resistancemoneyOct 23
AI is a jobs program for philosophers.
Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwartOct 22
AI IS AMAZING I know it's hip to worry about the decline in book reading and how chatbots will impoverish our brains. But TBH, this is not at all what I see. I wrote about how we're in this wild moment for intellectual flourishing and how all of us are the children of dancers.
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More cool blurbs from my book coming out this December!
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Some flashdrives too!
Andrew M. Bailey
@resistancemoneyOct 23
airgap your mind
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There are enough gray cases to render this post silly nonsense.
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Exactly. The military industry line is a myth created by people who clearly do not understand even the basics of game theory.
Alex Hollings
@AlexHollings52Oct 23
People talk a lot about the financial influence the military industrial complex has in the US, and I won’t dispute that. But if you combined the market cap of all 8 US primes into one massive company… it would still be worth around $200 billion less than just Walmart alone.
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This is 100% cope lol
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🎯🎯🎯
Alan Rosca
@alanroscaOct 22
Replying to @jayvanbavel
What’s unusual in this chart is not the drop in the number of dissertations after 2020, but the surge starting in the 1990s. The current drop simply brings them back to the pre-1990s normal. There was never such a soaring need for those PhDs.
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If it survives legal challenges. Big if.
Gabriel Zucman
@gabriel_zucmanOct 21
Replying to @gabriel_zucman
Crucially, moving to another state doesn’t allow one to avoid the tax, since the tax would be owed by billionaires who lived in California at the beginning of 2026. Not 2027 — but beginning of 2026. There is no incentive to move to another state. One cannot avoid the tax by moving. This is one of the main reasons why it was structured as a one-time tax.
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Amazing is one word for it 🙄
Andrew M. Bailey
@resistancemoneyOct 21
this is amazing bait
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Finally got the cover art for my forthcoming book!
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Matt Grawitch@DocGrawitchOct 20
Damn straight. Candy corn is an abomination!
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I've got a couple pieces arguing that even best case scenario (a) AI and robots likely won't solve the debt crisis, and (b) even if it could perfectly read your mind, it still couldn't know everything about you because some of the info doesn't exist yet (like with markets).
H S Joshi
@jon_stewartmillOct 18
AI is of course an important issue, but I fear it offers an escapism for many smart people. One can then avoid the foundational issues--IMO: immigration, the fertility crisis, higher ed. Q: how does AI stop what's happening in France?
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Competition as a discovery method, ftw!
Chris Freiman
@cafreimanOct 16
Hayek: “Competition is valuable only because, and so far as, its results are unpredictable and on the whole different from those which anyone has, or could have, deliberately aimed at.”
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Matt Zwolinski
@MattzwolinskiOct 17
Terrific new essay at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Academic Freedom, by Jacob Levy. plato.stanford.edu/entries/a…
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I'm watching Halt and Catch Fire and I'm amazed at the parallels between the rise of the personal computer in the late 80s and AI today.
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Amen brother!
Bryan Caplan
@bryan_caplanOct 17
I am not just saddened but puzzled when unsubstantiated allegations lead people's friends to summarily drop them. If I have to choose between society and a friend, it's not even close. My friends, I have your backs. And I hope you have mine.
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Excellent advice!
Bryan Caplan
@bryan_caplanOct 17
Tips for new teachers: 1. Go at 1/3 the pace you naturally want to. 2. Repetition repetition repetition. 3. When you ask for questions, allow an uncomfortable silence to give them time to respond. 4. Ask them many questions to see what they already understand.
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