I admire the technical sophistication of those who make bold bets, win, visibly survive and develop a nice winning record of calling-it-right bets. But event outcomes are not truths. Sucker exploits are not proofs. Prowess is admirable but integrity takes more.
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Gonna leave you with a pointer to Irving Goffman’s classic On Cooling the Mark Out. Which is the challenge facing any principled republicans who want to end this rather than drag out the now cancerously long con. http://infofranpro.wikidot.com/19520101-on-cooling …
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Footnote: irony and humor are the most enriching ways to alloy apparently self-certain assertions with enough uncertainty to make them not-corrupt. You will notice that corrupt people tend to use humor backwards: to inflate certainty. The laughs come easier but truths get harder.
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Footnote 2: If you can’t/don’t do humor and irony, at least do those “epistemic status” nutritional labels like the earnest rationalists do. Footnote 3: Sarcasm, mockery, amirite humor are all backwards-humor genres (inflate certainty rather than moderate it). Avoid.
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