Of course Slate is suspicious of someone who prefers to raise a question that reframes the issue, instead of dexterously defending a bad answerhttps://slate.com/business/2018/04/economist-robin-hanson-might-be-americas-creepiest-professor.html …
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Perhaps a world where Hanson is America’s creepiest economist is also a world where the best questions are the ones that remain unasked because they’re creepy.
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Economics is like medicine, in that you have to have a clinical, abstract view of flesh-and-blood beings if you hope to understand them. And if you think economists dehumanize the folks they’re helping, do *not* have an honest conversation with anyone who works in an ER.
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