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Teaching Ignorance 25 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
It ain’t ignorance causes so much trouble; it’s folks knowing so much that ain’t so. Josh Billings Economics is important. So the world could use more of it. In the same sense, ignorance of economics...
Math: Useful & Over-Used 22 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
Paul Krugman: Noah Smith … on the role of math in economics … suggests that it’s mainly about doing hard stuff to prove that you’re smart. I share much of his cynicism about the profession, but I thi...
Silent Line-Videos Pick Music Winners 21 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
[In] classical music competitions, … nearly all participants — including highly trained musicians — were better able to identify the winners of competitions by watching silent video clips than by list...
Why Is Law Fertile For Econ? 20 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
I’m about to teach graduate law & econ for the first time, after teaching the undergrad version five times. Going over my new text (Shavell) I’m struck by a difference between law & econ and other are...
Political System Change Is Weird 19 Aug 2013 | 04:52 am
Why do we have the political systems that we do? Back in the farming era, regimes competed militarily. Winners had more militarily effective total systems on average, and part their total system was t...
`Best’ Is About `Us’ 15 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
Why don’t we express and follow clear principles on what sort of inequality is how bad? Last week I suggested that we want the flexibility to use inequality as an excuse to grab resources when grabbin...
Em- vs Non- AGI Bet 12 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Joshua Fox and I have agreed to a bet: We, Robin Hanson and Joshua Fox, agree to bet on which kind of artificial general intelligence (AGI) will dominate first, once some kind of AGI dominates humans...
Seven Million Visits 10 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
According to the Sitemeter figure on the lower right hand side of this page, there have now been seven million visits to Overcoming Bias since it began in November 2006. Of course many folks read this...
Inequality Is About Grabbing 8 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
The US today has about 425 billionaires, over 1/3 of the world’s total. Many folks say these billionaires are unfairly unequal, and so we should tax them lots more. People usually become billionaires...
Are War Critics Selfish? 5 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
The Americanization of Emily (1964) starred James Garner (as Charlie) and Julie Andrews (as Emily), both whom call it their favorite. Be warned; I’ll give spoilers in this post. Here is the movie’s m...
