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Making the illegible slightly more legible

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@ArtemisConsort @jonatanpallesen How to waste billions and influence nobody by Mackenzie bezos https://t.co/CCQZr8oas4

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@TheZvi More posts on public choice on less wrong might be a good idea.

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@ThePujaTeli How insecure are you?This is a standard request. It applies to everyone. Your non existent threshold for crying racism is contemptible.

Also thanks for your concern. We’re thriving across the pond here. And will continue to.

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@razibkhan Also nobody is obligated to buy your house.

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@YawBoaduBenjam2 Heard balaji make this case yesterday. More convincing than I expected it to be.

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@__Injaneb96 there’s probably something genetic going on. The effect is too large to explain without it. The other contender is protein intake.

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@WestsideLAGuy This guy has definitely not been to Hong Kong or Bangkok or Jakarta or Shanghai. American nightlife is objectively shit (except nyc). But America does have the most fun loving methheads, I’ll give you that.

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@ArtemisConsort @EricLevitz Sure you should but it’s a dumb idea. I’d love for people to reconsider universal suffrage but the reasons to make gender the limiting principle seems obviously wrong. Why not just weight votes by taxes paid or iq? “men can be drafted” is the only retort I’ve heard.

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@StefanFSchubert That seems not independent of how sanguine people happen to be in its presence

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@robertwiblin Worth separating causation from selection. People who make reflection their main focus probably have other underlying issues that drive both low output and high introspection.

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@StefanFSchubert Marcus Aurelius didn’t raise enough money to count as a great man apparently

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@signulll I’m not sure why you think we’d have sufficient liquidity to have functioning prediction markets on everything. everyone will learn about adverse selection the hard way.

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@ArtemisConsort @Gena_I_Gorlin Let me change your mind on prediction markets too. https://t.co/gk4OTLhudQ

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@garrytan Ya but you might that the market in whatever you want isn’t so liquid that you can just snap your fingers and “make it happen”

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@paulg Yes Mamdani is now “post- woke”. I guess you can just say things.

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@yrechtman I’m a fan of using market making subsidies to surface relevant info where that is indeed better than forecasting on a cost adjusted basis. But then almost always those use cases don’t materialize because of institutional incentives being misaligned.

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@cremieuxrecueil @BecomingCritter Gregory Clarke should have used pitbulls to make the straussian case for:

1. Selection effects dominate in the short run

2. But in the long run, culture shapes selection effects

[Vaish @Vaishsg7]

@yrechtman I sometimes reply and say things like "would you be open to being my gym buddy?"

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@CliffordAsness The abundance & other center left bros also deserve some opprobrium for being all too keen to take the slightest equivocation by him as "evidence of moderation". Happened before the election and it's back with special dose of amnesia.