The last 3 years have led me to a deep philosophical acceptance of Milton Friedman’s principle that effective politics is often about getting the wrong people to do the right thing for the wrong reasons. Much as I detest Trump as a person, he sometimes rises to that level.
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Trump is more dangerous on business/trade policy than on race relations or immigration precisely because he *thinks* he knows what he’s doing, and is not just trying to push the buttons that get the biggest rise out of his targets, or spitballing random opinions
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Imagine a multiple choice test where a canny test-setter always includes one tempting, seemingly intuitively right answer, a counter-intuitive right answer that takes expertise, and 2 red herrings
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A random guesser would score 25% A true wonk would score 25% too (100% in expertise areas, falling for intuitive wrong option in 75%) Guesser who goes intuitive in shallow expertise areas would do worse than 25%. So would wonk who second guesses themselves in expert areas
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I’d like to see an argument that nature is kinda like such a canny test setter
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The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them.
That’s what slouching towards utopia looks like sometimes I guess.Show this thread
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