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    1. Existential Comics‏ @existentialcoms 17 Jun 2017

      An economist is someone who, when asked if the slaves should be freed, tells you whether freeing them will cause the GDP to go up or down.

      52 replies 1,445 retweets 2,869 likes
    2. Grant Babcock‏ @GrantBabcock 17 Jun 2017
      Replying to @existentialcoms

      You know the "dismal science" story, right?

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    3. Grant Babcock‏ @GrantBabcock 17 Jun 2017
      Replying to @GrantBabcock @existentialcoms

      Slavers were mad at economists: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/why-economics-is-really-called-the-dismal-science/282454/ …

      1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes
    4. Sas‏ @saspav 17 Jun 2017
      Replying to @GrantBabcock @existentialcoms

      EC still has a point: she can say that an economist is someone who would abolish slavery only because it would make gdp grow.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Jun 2017
      Replying to @saspav @GrantBabcock @existentialcoms

      hi im an economist and you dont know what youre talking about ama

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    6. Sas‏ @saspav 18 Jun 2017
      Replying to @eigenrobot @GrantBabcock @existentialcoms

      Probably true, but I'm willing to learn.

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Jun 2017
      Replying to @saspav @GrantBabcock @existentialcoms

      sure. thumbnail: we do tend to separate normative ("is it good") questions from positive ("what will happen"), since we don't claim to have\

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Jun 2017
      Replying to @eigenrobot @saspav and

      any special knowledge of what's good. that said, we also tend to frame questions as "what will make people better-off", and for slavery to \

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Jun 2017
      Replying to @eigenrobot @saspav and

      be the answer to the question compared to "not slavery" generally requires a rotten definition of "people," in a GIGO sort of way.

      1:12 PM - 18 Jun 2017
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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Jun 2017
          Replying to @eigenrobot @saspav and

          thanks for asking, and sorry to have been snippy :)

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        3. Sas‏ @saspav 18 Jun 2017
          Replying to @eigenrobot @GrantBabcock @existentialcoms

          Tnx, I already knew most of it, I guess. I was just playing the game. And I can bear Twitter snippiness. Bye

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