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Friday, December 2, 2022

2022-12-02

wow, I lost my post... all gone... dammit

somehow the page got wiped, then auto-saved, with no retrieval options that I can find

whole lot of time wasted... fuck

do I try at all to re-assemble at least some of it? 

clearly I need a more foolproof publishing system going forward

in any case, there is this (tiny abridged selection of mostly tweet charts easy to recover):

 

Economic Fare:

Pilkington: Capitalism’s Overlooked Contradiction: Wealth and Demographic Decline

 

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Contrarian Perspectives


Unsustainability Fare:

China Mieville on Why Capitalism Deserves Our Burning Hatred

 

Endemic Fare:

The Missing Babies of Europe

Nine months after mass vaccination, 110,000 fewer babies are born. In the U.S., birth data is scarce, and few mention the F word: Fertility


Big Thoughts:

Hanson: Thinkers Must Be Heretics

When we form opinions on topics, the depth of our efforts vary. On some topics we put in no effort, and hold no opinions. On other topics, we notice what are the opinions of standard authorities, and adopt those. We often go further to learn of some arguments offered by such authorities, and mostly accept those arguments.

Sometimes we feel contrarian and make up an opinion we know to be contrary to standard ones. Sometimes we instead seek out non-standard authorities that we more respect, and adopt their opinions and maybe also arguments. Contrarian authorities often explicitly mention and rebut arguments of standard authorities, and sometimes we also learn and adopt those counter-arguments.

Sometimes we try to learn about many arguments on a topic from many sides, and then try to compare and evaluate them more directly, paying less attention to how much we respect their sources. Sometimes we generate our own arguments to add to this mix. Sometimes we do this alone, and sometimes in collaboration with close associates. Compared to the other approaches mentioned above, this last set of approaches can be described as more “thinking for ourselves” ...........

Note that people who want to create the impression that they think for themselves, without putting in the effort of actually doing so, can just randomly adopt contrarian conclusions at roughly this rate. And this does seem to be the strategy of most ordinary people, who have quite high rates of variation in their opinions, and yet who don’t seem to think very deeply. Their opinions even vary widely across time, as they usually can’t recall the random opinions that the previously generated. ......



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