Alexander Wade Craig @alexwadecraig
Assistant Professor of Economics interested in ethics, political economy, culture, and development. He/him alexanderwcraig.com Joined February 2011-
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“Coercion is evil precisely because it eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.” — Friedrich Hayek
Philosophers ask whether Clifford still meets the necessary conditions to count as a dog Economists ask what institutional failure explains why he's still owned by a random 8 year old
Philosophers ask whether Clifford still meets the necessary conditions to count as a dog Economists ask what institutional failure explains why he's still owned by a random 8 year old
This chart is being horribly misinterpreted. This is not where the training data of AI comes from, it is a study done by a SEO firm that claims to show how often sites come up at least once in THE WEB SEARCH FUNCTION of certain AI agents when they do a web search for more info.
From what I can tell, number theory is for pseudointellectual youtubers and geniuses
I derived a weird pleasure from getting ChatGPT to think for long periods of time. So far I think my best was 5:23
Why did she go with the one where Jeff Bridges is playing the steel drum
I'll do you one better, I don't care who the founders wanted to own guns
Political junkies, government employees, and most of the media comment on politics like it's a turn-based strategy game about procedural legitimacy. Consequences are an afterthought at best to them.
Political junkies, government employees, and most of the media comment on politics like it's a turn-based strategy game about procedural legitimacy. Consequences are an afterthought at best to them.
Bans on flag burning are so well established as unconstitutional that they're practically the textbook example of originalists thinking some things are, in fact, unconstitutional but, in principle, shouldn't be.
I haven't heard a lot about "misinformation" in a while, which is probably for the best since that was always a demand, not supply, problem.
Charming series here!
The biggest flaw in Rawls's system is that I can never remember whether it's the maximin or minimax
Yeah, that's *exactly* how the money would be spent if it had gone to taxes instead. Especially right now.
Yeah, that's *exactly* how the money would be spent if it had gone to taxes instead. Especially right now.
For a lot of people "billionaires should pay their taxes" seems to mean "billionaires should pay the amount in taxes that would get me to stop complaining" rather than "billionaires should act in compliance with tax law" so it's very hard for me to take them seriously
What's the best translation of Marx's Capital?
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