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Let's skip witty repartee & position taking, & discuss enduring fundamental questions. (& my books: , )

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hanson.gmu.edu
Joined July 2007
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    Likewise there is a dearth of essays in praise of illiteracy.

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    Excellent 2018 summer reading list of the 'best books' for financial , by Feat. authors: , , , , , , &

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  3. 16 hours ago

    "Through a careful examination of a wide range of human behavior – from [basic] human behaviors such as body language & conversation, to more specific applications in areas such as consumption, art, charity, & medicine – [they] shine a spotlight on some of our hidden motives"

    Excellent 2018 summer reading list of the 'best books' for financial , by Feat. authors: , , , , , , &
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    _My_ feelings towards you are neutral, but then again, I've never seen your luggage.

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  5. 20 hours ago

    My guess is that this will be one of the hardest things for post-dreamtime folks to understand about we dreamtime folks: why did so many of us rich folks work so hard, when we could have just slacked and taken it easy?

    Books on how to slow down & take it easy are mostly written by the sort of ambitious hard-driving people who write most books, & accomplish most things. Makes it hard to really hear clearly from slacker point of view.
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  6. 21 hours ago

    Books on how to slow down & take it easy are mostly written by the sort of ambitious hard-driving people who write most books, & accomplish most things. Makes it hard to really hear clearly from slacker point of view.

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  7. 21 hours ago

    My cats are most affectionate when they can see from luggage out that I'm going on a trip. Does that work for humans too?

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  8. 22 hours ago

    "Perhaps the first step would be a second chamber in our parliament, full of randomly selected people." No, 1st step can be done now w/o any rules changes: run for office on platform that you'll impanel random juries & do what they tell you. Who does that?

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  9. Jul 3

    Loyalty beats productivity: “It’s better to do one bad thing with your boss than a hundred good things for your boss.”

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  10. Jul 3

    After a week, I tentatively conclude that while many might give lip service to a civility pause, few are inclined to do it or praise it when done. Maybe few actually value civility much, relative to value of being in the thick of the current conversation.

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  11. Jul 3

    "cross-firm spread in labor & capital productivity in EU countries is about twice as large as that in US. … Reducing the EU dispersion to US levels … could increase the EU's GDP by more than 30%."

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  12. Jul 3

    Are book reviews one of those optimization problems reward extreme choices? That is, are rewards highest when you as reviewer love or hate a book/movie/etc, compared to giving intermediate response.

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  13. Jul 3

    "more successful entrepreneurs launch their enterprises in their 40s than in their 20s."

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  14. Jul 2

    Do sports undermine rule of law by teaching players to break rules when expected penalty less than game gain, and to not call attention to the violations of allies? And teaching fans to cheer such behavior?

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  15. Jul 2

    On the field, World Cup players not not subscribe to the norm that men should act tough and try not to show that they feel hurt or pain.

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  16. Jul 2

    "In sum, Peterson comes across as pompous, self-absorbed, and not very self-aware. But on the one key criteria by which such a book should most be judged, I have to give it to him: he has insight."

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    If true this provides a sociobiology hypothesis re "From Dawn to Decadence," Gibbon, Spengler, etc. - dominance and sociopathy in vigorous barbarian cultures (male selected) give way to increasing female-selected traits in the cities.

    Male features are chosen more by men than women: "physical dominance, but not sexual attractiveness, predicted mating success. … These findings thus suggest a greater importance of intrasexual competition than female choice in human male sexual selection"
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  18. Jul 2

    "I did four analyses to look at the question in different ways, and each time, I found evidence that mismeasurement is not what’s behind the apparent slowdown in productivity growth."

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  19. Jul 2

    Male features are chosen more by men than women: "physical dominance, but not sexual attractiveness, predicted mating success. … These findings thus suggest a greater importance of intrasexual competition than female choice in human male sexual selection"

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    To be fair, at least part your "recent contact and gossip" was lunch at GMU with me, and I'm very close to platform building and not close to customers as a choice of personal specialization. Might your opinions be different after talking to someone from, say, Consensys?

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