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Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

6 months

My Simmel Hypothesis paper is up at the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. I argue that money made us WEIRD by loosening cultural-evolutionary constraints on our sacred values. Think of it as Georg Simmel + @JoHenrich . Summary 🧵 below.

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3 months

I've stopped the car. Why am I still on the highway?

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Out: Art that makes the public mad by deconstructing the idea of art In: Art that makes artists mad by deconstructing the idea of artist

Genel Jumalon ✈️ KimochiiCon + Art-A-Whirl

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TL;DR — Someone entered an art competition with an AI-generated piece and won the first prize. Yeah that's pretty fucking shitty.

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There's an interesting dynamic we've had multiple times in our undergrad reading group. Rich student tries to excuse looting, or advocate for welfare expansion, or some such sympathetic-to-the-poor position. Poor student pushes back hard: Have you ever MET poor people?

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Exposure to poor people reduces support for redistribution among the rich.

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However bad you think the academic job market is, it's worse. Numbers from Berkeley (% of applicants → % of finalists): -Black: 3% → 9% (200% boost) -Latino: 13% → 59% (354% boost) -Asian: 26% → 19% (27% disadvantage) -White: 54% → 14% (74% disadvantage)

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In the NYT, @powellAtlantic notes that UC Berkeley carried out a cluster hire—eliminating 75% of faculty job applicants based on DEI statement alone. The second photo is Berkeley's own description. Universities around the U.S. have embraced this model. A quick thread.

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@mattyglesias Surely you're numerate enough to know soaking the rich is not a serious debt-reduction strategy.

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John Maynard Smith: The theory of natural selection was first laid out before Darwin by a shipbuilder worried that logging was selecting for scrubby and crooked trees (as apparently happened in China?)

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@depthsofwiki Guys will see this and simply say "hell yeah"

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@paul_hundred The Dogwhistle standard for thee, the Should-Not-Be-Taken-Literally standard for me

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1) Create a community around obsessive enjoyment of something 2) Community becomes productive & high status 3) Wages & status attract careerists to the field 4) Signaling games arise to separate careerists from real obsessives 5) Careerists find this stressful and complain

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@nim_chimpsky_ Many such cases!

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@depthsofwiki Happy Cow Tools Day!

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@bobby Dudes: ⚪️ rock 🔘 stick

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It's a crime we let historians teach the Great Depression.

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It's obvious to anyone who actually glanced over the McKinsey study that it was purely correlational without even a cursory attempt at causal inference. Turns out even the simple correlation is bogus.

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Over the past few years, @McKinsey has released at least 4 studies claiming a positive relationship between DEI and firm performance. A new paper published today in @EconJWatch finds these results can't be replicated. ''Our inability to [replicate] their results suggests that…

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@wwwojtekk As I tell the students in my development class: the relative size of the orange stripe is a pretty good metric of an economy's corruption and dysfunction.

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@Jake_AstroJet @matthewteller Far Side comic, close enough?

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@mattyglesias Fiddling at the politically feasible margins of tax policy isn't gonna move the needle. If your top issue is debt, you should passionately advocate for reductions in spending, which I certainly don't see either presidential candidate inclined to do.

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@mischiefanimals Gniesbert did nothing wrong

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And it occurs to me that in elite colleges, there would be absolutely no one to ever push back this way.

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@JanelleCShane "I will briefly summarize the plot of Back to the Future II for you."

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War is peace, freedom is slavery, surveillance is democratic accountability

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New York Times warns that Signal users may be unwittingly promoting extremist ideologies such as privacy. Aghast that groups of technologists can build software. Argues we need a public discussion before law enforcement stops tapping our phones

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Me hijacking a signal of competence to distribute rents to a client group: Haha heck yeah!!! Yes!! Me when people start inferring competence by membership in that client group: Well this sucks. What the heck. You racist.

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Notice how they don’t identify specific examples of people who are supposedly incompetent. They’re arguing that any black person flying a plane, working in medicine, attending law school is per se suspicious. They want to get rid of these people, totally segregate society again.

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If would-be NYC teachers can get $1.8b in back pay for failing a supposedly discriminatory aptitude test, I want Berkeley's endowment drained to pay every qualified candidate who got filtered out at the DEI round.

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@mattyglesias "Maybe normal people would benefit from hearing them from a more normal source." That *was* Peterson, who then got weirdo-coded for doing exactly what you recommend!

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Midjourney is the true spiritual heir to Marcel Duchamp

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@cremieuxrecueil BuT hOw WlIL yOuR kIdS bE sOcIaLiZeD?

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@showshowpod look, im not saying that noam chomsky was a gamer. that would be ludicrous. im simply saying that if games had existed at the time,

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Artists coming out strong against artists' assistants (who have, both today and historically, often done way more of the actual execution than the "ideas guy" whose name goes on the piece)

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Related: Don't neuter your good bois.

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@entirelyuseles The whole species maybe not, but if there are differences on average between wild and owned cats and dogs, you should expect to see de-domestication (and thus the extinction of this particular relationship) over time.

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@NLRG_ @eigenrobot The labor theory of value but for wars 🥴

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@depthsofwiki Tfw you lose even worse than Nigeria in the game of legend where India murdered a player by magically turning the ball into stone

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BBC interviews Nigerians and Indians about the time Indians used Juju magic to summon lions to beat Nigerians in a football match 99-1

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We are living in a very strange moral environment.

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Oberlin College has agreed to pay $36.59 million to a bakery that said it was falsely accused of racism after it caught a student shoplifting.

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@TheOnion The actually funny part of this is that the Soviet Romanian head of state literally did this on his visit to France.

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One is also struck by the condescension that the academic upper class holds toward the poor who don't toe the line of their supposed class interests.

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@DavidPorkstar Imagine you’re the social climber who said mean things about poor people to impress the rich kids in your reading group only to find out via tweet that class is stickier than you thought

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If this had been written as an allegory, I'd call it too on-the-nose.

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I believe this because based on assessments at my university, knowledge in every field has the same rank-order by major. Finance students know the most, in every business field. Marketing students know the least in every field, including marketing.

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This is why "virtue signaling" is the wrong model for woke capital. Satisfying to think it's all insincere profit-mongering, but is a real religious revival, and the signaling being done is costly and credible.

Vivek Ramaswamy

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Disney’s CEO took a toxic political positions that hurt Disney’s business. Normal capitalism: his top 3 shareholders would tell him to knock it off. Capitalism today: BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard tell him to keep at it in the name of “ESG” & “DEI.” That’s the problem.

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@TheSimpsons @RBReich Why did this have to be relevant again so quickly

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Apparently the divination-as-randomizing-device argument doesn't hold up so well.

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@andrew_beecher I've heard rumors that there have been sightings of Rochester's namesake recently too

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Unsettling analogy from A Farewell to Alms: there's no economic reason in principle why technology couldn't turn lots of people into ZMP workers – it did to horses! – and it's perhaps just a lucky accident that it hasn't so far.

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Why would the breakdown of shared culture—as @sarahdoingthing pointed out to me a few years ago—result in a preoccupation with authenticity? Because without shared culture, spontaneous and nondeliberate utterances are the only ones you can trust.

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Small talk as a costly signal of social commitment: for many of the social benefits of language, the content of what is said literally doesn't matter.

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Reminder that using public office for personal enrichment is far-and-away the global and historical norm, and only a handful of societies have ever effectively enforced norms against it.

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What do I mean? Well, in 2023 alone, James spent over $28,500 on hotels. Over $15,000 of that was spent on luxury hotels in Puerto Rico.

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@AnechoicMedia_ The fact that the answers are highly valued is why they *have* to be signaled indirectly.

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New countersignaling opportunity just dropped

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Very cool paper that shows the modern formula for having high status tastes: you like every genre (rap and classic rock, comedy & horror) but you only like very particular “high consecration” examples (Kendrick Lamar & Bob Dylan). The chart of consecrated media is worth a look!

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Price level in early medieval Europe was so low that the flexibility of prices and wages was limited by the physical divisibility of coins.

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@sfmcguire79 We've come full circle

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Reminder that revolutions don't happen because of bad conditions; revolutions happen when power structures become contestable.

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The image of the Roman Emperor on English coinage became increasingly stylized after the Roman exit until by 700 it was a porcupine.

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The replies are taking this to be a "notice the beauty in every moment" sentiment. Which is fine too, but more importantly, grocery stores are legitimately staggering feats of the division of labor!

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I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catégories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him.

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@VitalikButerin You *should* be able to do this from the Las Vegas airport based on distance, except that they seem to have deliberately designed it to be impossible to exit on foot (I did it anyway)

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It's easy to come up with a story for why humans have culture and extensive cooperation. It's a lot harder to come up with a story that also explains why nobody else does.

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@aniwacked Oh they totally did

The UK Musicians Union tried to ban synths 40 years ago today - Mixdown Magazine

The year is 1982 and the date is May 23. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder’s ‘Ebony and Ivory’ has overtaken ‘Chariots of Fire’ and ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’ on the Billboard charts. It is also the...

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@krassenstein @EndWokeness "mostly because of socioeconomic differences" Even a cursory glance at the evidence shows this doesn't explain much.

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Wife points out that this might explain why the Slav Squat is a thing.

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@ThreatNotation Don't remember why I did this but here's me 13 years ago with Chocolate Rain on the glockenspiel. #TMNjam

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@JabariBrisport My dude Langeposting out here like it's 1930, smh

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@NewYorker That's a... uh... pretty important difference.

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Finally turned this thread into a proper blogpost. Why should we prefer high-status to low-status entertainment (besides the status benefits), if they're both "unnatural" hyperstimuli? Because "Ineffability renders hyperstimulus safe."

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The "wait what" moment 3/4 of the way down this thread is a good illustration of the point that the highest and most valorized human experiences are just controlled hyperstimulus, and just a hair's breadth away from addiction and vice.

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Real blackpill over the last several years is that there is literally no limit to the antisocial behavior that polite society is willing to excuse now.

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@hayesdavenport Ah yes, the Cheesburger from the proud German city of Cheeseburg.

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@jenheemstra A more important predictor of success in research is knowing not to sample on the dependent variable.

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Bookmarking this for my intro lecture on economic systems where we compare allocation through deliberation, through command, and through markets.

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Socialist professor explains how to get a PS5 under socialism. Yeah, no thanks.

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Fight back. Preserve space for productive obsessiveness, and the boundaries necessary to maintain it. Civilization probably depends on it. (7/7)

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@CTVNews The Law of Conservation of Cringe

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@RogueWPA House prices fell in 2008. Researchers concluded that this is "incongruent with the theory that posits a housing bubble" 🤨🤨🤨

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@eigenrobot The sheer poasting power to be able to get "yes, and" community notes

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@WilliamAEden Issuing a clarification regarding the steppe warlord Ghengis Khan. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

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"Inside and Outside Perspectives on Institutions: An Economic Theory of the Noble Lie" – now up at the Journal of Contextual Economics. Particularly proud of this one since it's the most direct statement of what I might call my social philosophy. (🧵)

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Crucial knowledge for improving parent-child relations. Kids, your parents didn't traumatize you and you can't blame your bad personality on them. Parents, your kids don't reflect badly on your parenting, so chill out, and don't be embarrassed to get them the help they need.

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Parenting practices seem to have little or no impact on children's personalities, contrary to some of the best-known theories in psychology. (Longitudinal study; N = 3,880)

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"Do what you love" was never very generalizable advice. But the backlash – which amounts to "loving what you do perpetuates toxic signaling games" – is stifling. If you don't love talking about social science, maybe social science isn't for you. (2/7)

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But we've become allergic to saying "maybe this field isn't for you" out loud. So the signaling looks "toxic", we cut down the tall poppies to create space for careerists, squander the complementarities, and waste huge amounts of human potential. (5/7)

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@AgnesCallard Add Adam Smith to the opposition team!

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Here we go: Adam Smith on people who substitute travel for a personality. H/t @ceverhartyoung

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@MJtheProphet @ZachWeiner As a trained economist, I'd reverse this. Trained economists know better than to think they can do this, so you'd have to attribute the attempt to malice or grift rather than just ignorance.

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Didn't realize how strong the Mises-Weber connection was. 1st part of Human Action basically just recapitulates 1st part of Economy and Society, and Weber cites Mises' Theory of Money and Credit as "the formulation of monetary theory which has been most acceptable to the author"

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@AnechoicMedia_ There's definitely a "just counterintuitive enough to be plausible" sweet spot for claims like this, probably because getting to do a "well akshully" is a huge dopamine rush even for midwits.

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Every field has that obnoxious discredited "just counterintuitive enough to be plausible" theory that always shows up in op-eds.

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@XDevelopers Imagine how much talent you're missing out on by having the API paywall so high.

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@elonmusk I will resubscribe if and when user timeline API endpoint access (even heavily rate-limited is ok!) becomes available with Twitter Blue or the free API tier. $100/month is not feasible for that.

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Lamberg-Karlovsky: All the Bronze Age empires brought writing with them as they conquered large areas of central Asia. Not a single conquered settlement kept writing after the empires fell.

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Calling the Supreme Court illegitimate when they don't decide for your faction is as bad as election denialism, and for exactly the same reasons.

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Okay. So we all understand that the Supreme Court has become a right-wing ideological political institution under Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, & Roberts. They're for sale & illegitimate. Now, we have to beat them in the executive branch & the legislature.…

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Stats exam question: You're watching traffic court. You notice Group A defendants got caught speeding avg 10mph, and Group B avg. 25mph. Which of the following can you infer? a) Group B is worse at driving b) Cops are biased against group B c) Cops are biased in favor of group B

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@spectatorindex Dudes rock.

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I wrote about GPT-3 for @Quillette . Is there a difference between human intelligence and GPT output? Yes – but humans do fall easily into the trap of building self-referential text models, and in that respect, ideological thinking is strikingly GPT-like.

What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking

Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.

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@wil_da_beast630 Usually "ha ha this is just like Idiocracy" comparisons are tiresome and self-indulgent, but man this one is so on the nose I'm gagging from the fart smell.

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(Or yourself!)

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The best way to make sure the world has environmentalists is for environmentalists to have children.

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Good advanced econ exam q: When an asset (a house, BTC, etc.) appreciates in a boom market, its owner becomes wealthier. To what extent is this a transfer of wealth (and if so from whom), versus the creation of wealth (and if so how)? I'll post my suggested answer tomorrow.

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(uncodeable answer)

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If you say "this begs the question" and then specify a question, you're using the phrase wrong. http://t.co/hiQ7sqxmGg

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@C_Harwick

4 years

Just remember to keep the bioethicists away from the levers of power during this time.

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Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

7 months

@Pontifex Bit embarrassing that the head of a religious order with a 1,600 year old tradition of Just War Theory instead decides to invoke 120 year old humanitarian law, tbh

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@C_Harwick

8 months

@UpdatingOnRome They made for very stylish jewelry in South India.

Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

3 years

Byzantine coins were apparently popular as jewelry in South India, and imitations were struck in Sri Lanka

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Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

3 years

@DeborahHaddick @whorsegrl Lactose tolerant bf, cilantro tolerant gf

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@C_Harwick

2 years

I love economists

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Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

6 years

Similar to how "Horseshoe theory" means the extremes look the same to a centrist, I propose "Hudson theory" to refer to extremists who lump in centrists with people of the opposite extreme.

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@C_Harwick

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The uncomfortable implication is that people who run "awareness" campaigns for mental health issues have a lot of blood on their hands.

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Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

9 months

"Mugs are better than bowls for serving ice cream."

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Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

4 months

@whstancil You can't have it both ways. If you're willing to dilute the main signal of competence with afmt. action, you've gotta accept that people rationally rely on other signals. It's a statistical argument, not a reflection on any individual.

Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

9 months

I hope for AA supporters with enough sense to recognize the rationality of how people respond to it, and AA opponents with enough decency not to indulge in mean-spirited drive-bys on new graduates. Occupy those missing moods.

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Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

4 years

More evidence against major long-run after-effects of oppression: areas with Soviet gulags that had more high-human-capital political prisoners are more prosperous today.

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@C_Harwick

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@wanyeburkett Tbh I love these sorts of questions. I can stand in front of students all day trying to communicate a mental model, but it's not gonna stick unless they expose and I can directly address whatever jury-rigged mental model they've been using.

Cameron Harwick 👾🏛

@C_Harwick

5 years

Teachers build mental models out of preexisting mental models in students' heads. The hardest part of this is not knowing what kind of raw material you have work with. Prereqs help, but not infallibly. "Ask questions until you understand" helps with this.

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