silvestre

Professor de filosofia, liberal e platonista

[Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso]

The curious task of economics is to find increasingly clever ways to show the obvious as we evolve in an age where influencers and pundits make the obvious appear wrong

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@velhoprofessor O custo de se produzir frango é pequeno na Inglaterra e na Irlanda, burocracia clara e impostos mais justos. Essas coisas favorecem a produção, e se há facilidade de produção, há concorrência e concorrência reduz os preços

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@dudelbem As ferramentas e os métodos econômicos são utilizados amplamente por essas ciências. Vide teoria da decisão, por exemplo. Além disso, cada vez mais a barreira natural que existe entre as ciências sociais está desabando. É comum pesquisaa intercambiais entre as disciplinas.

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@pedrotrossi1 O viés de confirmação é real.

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@Cardoso CARALHO!! SE EU SOUBESSE QUE ERA VC ESSE TEMPO TODO, JÁ TINHA TE SEGUIDO FAZ TEMPO!!!!

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

É como se fosse uma corrida. O brasileiro e o americano possuem a mesma capacidade de chegar ao final da largada. No entanto, as instituições (as regras do jogo) que patrocinam o corredor brasileiro decidem que ele deve carregar uma mochila pesada e fazer entregas durante o percurso.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

New data, quantifying the frequency of letters in which Karl Marx asked Engels to send him money.

[Zanfa 2 @ZanfaVive]

Aprendeu

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@blognaointendo Sem salto alto: 6 pés e 10 polegadas = 2,08 metros
Com salto alto: 7 pés e 3 polegadas = 2,21 metros

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

New project -

I'm experimenting with using AI to sort through all of Karl Marx's letters to find every time he asked Engels to send him money.

This is just 4 years of results.

Turns out Marx asked Engels for money A LOT.

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

Um exemplo de como a esquerda acadêmica conseguiu associar, de maneira maliciosa e criminosa, racismo, fascismo e xenofobia ao projeto liberal e libertário.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

If a historian on the right abused evidence in this way, they'd face career ruination.

When Boston University's Quinn Slobodian does it, he gets a Guggenheim fellowship, book awards, and a Hewlett Foundation grant.

Academia's rot runs far deeper than a simple crisis of rigor.

[Zanfa 2 @ZanfaVive]

Não é uma vida ruim

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

When Gabriel Zucman manipulated tax rate stats to show the wealthy paying less than the poor and tried to memory hole his own previously published numbers that undermined this claim, academia cheered him on because they liked his political narrative and gave him the Clark Medal.

When Kevin Kruse plagiarized multiple passages in his published works over the past two decades, academia circled the wagons around him, attacked the person who discovered it (i.e. me) as "politically motivated," and dismissed overwhelming evidence as "accidental copying and pasting."

When Quinn Slobodian got caught altering the text of Mises quotations to make them sound racist, academia made him co-editor of the journal where he did it and showered him with prizes.

When Nancy MacLean got caught engaging in wholesale fabrications of evidence (as well as egregious incompetence) in her book about James M. Buchanan, academia made her a finalist for the National Book Award.

When Nikole Hannah-Jones got caught denying and ghost-editing one of her most controversial claims out of the 1619 Project, academia handed her a cushy endowed professorship with full tenure despite her having nonexistent scholarly research outputs and zero teaching experience.

When Michael Bellesiles falsified historical documents to make an anti-second amendment argument as part of his history of gun ownership in America, academia gave him the Bancroft Prize and only rescinded it after the evidence became so overwhelming that they could not deny it anymore.

When Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple scholarly works over her career, academia made her president of Harvard and also tried to circle the wagons until the evidence became so overwhelming that they could not deny it anymore.

Yes, higher ed has a politicization problem and it often shows through in the exceedingly low standards of rigor in many of these fields. But it also manifests in other ways that are much more serious than a simple lack of rigor.

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@joulefenton Regulação do mercado de moradia não é bom pra quem é pobre e prejudica a economia. Encarece aluguéis, dificulta o mercado de trabalho, gera desigualdade. O Caplan tem o melhor livro sobre o tema e posição dele deveria ser padrão para quem se diz libertário.

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@RafaelFontana Os Sikhs não são mul��umanos e o conselho Sikh condenou o ataque.

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@caiocgomes Vc é um caso crônico de viés de confirmação.

[Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke]

The widespread practice of calling people "fascist" because they think there are only two sexes seems to be an excellent example of hermeneutical hijacking. Can someone please inform the blue sky philosophers of this important development?

[silvestre @jonatasvtre]

@bakuninbolado @MateusSeba_ Bakunin que adora comunista autoritário, os anarquistas que morreram na Makhnovtchina se retorcem.