"Stupid government and it's love of evil bureaucracy." "Let's create more surveillance systems to measure and subsequently manipulate every aspect of the user experience for the sake of maximizing efficiency w.r.t. our specific loss function!"
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Replying to @generativist
I'm wondering if I dare ask what provoked this observation. I was hoping for a quiet day...
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Replying to @BobKerns
Some crypto-adjacent civic tech people in my feed were talking about government waste that they wanted to correct, and it generally makes me suspicious of them.
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Replying to @generativist
Time for my favorite Adam Smith quote on people to be suspicious of...
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Replying to @BobKerns
It's incredible how many insights that book has and how many of them are ignored by the people who quote him thie most...
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Replying to @generativist
They don't seem to quote much beyond the two words "invisible hand", which they take to be a magic talisman and the topic of the book. And "free market" which they couldn't define if their life depended on it, and which they assume exists naturally if only governments went away.
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Replying to @BobKerns @generativist
And of course, they've heard of his first book—"Theory of Moral Sentiments". Or his discussion of the theory of rent, further explored by Ricardo and Malthus. They might recognize his discussion of the labor theory of value— if you attached the name Karl Marx.
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Replying to @BobKerns @generativist
Damn: "they've NOT heard of his first book". I otta look for opportunities to quote from it. Hmm, I think I know just the place to quote the opening paragraph:pic.twitter.com/9gvYgEMi2B
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