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1. Top-down cosmology, from Stephen Hawking: "Out of this profusion of beginnings, the vast majority withered away without leaving any real imprint on the Universe we know today. Only a tiny fraction of them blended to make the current cosmos, Hawking and Hertog claim." Hat tip to Jason Kottke.
2. France yields on iTunes, sort of.
3. A listing of libertarian professors; apparently I still make the grade.
4. Bryan Caplan doubts himself. Beware the intelligent argument, it may seduce you.
5. "People are going to be having sex with robots within five years."
6. Larry Summers offers investment advice: poor countries should buy fewer U.S. Treasury securities and more equities.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 22, 2006 at 01:16 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
How will society change when robot sex becomes as good as the real thing?
Posted by: Half Sigma at Jun 22, 2006 2:32:49 PM
Whoa, I've got two of them at my school. Perhaps I've missed it, but I'm surprised not to have read anything about these guys in any of the conservative publications on campus. That leads me to ask, how is this information verified?
Posted by: Brian at Jun 22, 2006 3:06:43 PM
Tennessee, my home state, has 4, though I would argue Glenn Reynolds doesn't really fit the bill. Virginia has 31, if I counted correctly, 22 at George Mason alone (Buchanan included). I love this school.
They spelled your name wrong.
Posted by: Swimmy at Jun 22, 2006 3:10:48 PM
Given the overrepresentation of econ profs on the list, I'm curious: does studying economics make one libertarian, or are libertarians drawn to the study of economics?
Posted by: bbartlog at Jun 22, 2006 3:17:50 PM
"Whoa, I've got two of them at my school."
If you're talking about sex robots, then I want to know what school you go to!
Posted by: Half Sigma at Jun 22, 2006 3:18:34 PM
Don't take it too hard Dr. Cowen; I'll never think of you as a libertarian.
Posted by: Sarah at Jun 22, 2006 3:52:39 PM
You may still make the grade but they don't know how to spell your name.
Posted by: Jacqueline at Jun 22, 2006 4:02:43 PM
New Mexico. Blank. It is a desert in more ways than one.
Posted by: Eric H at Jun 22, 2006 5:03:29 PM
Re: point 5. I think he meant to say "men are going to be having sex with robots", not "people".
Posted by: o at Jun 22, 2006 6:20:13 PM
Why wouldn't you be considered a libertarian?
Posted by: Selfreferencing at Jun 22, 2006 6:35:20 PM
Herr Cowen,
Re: Libertarian professors
Why would you want to be typecast like that?
I find this compilation odd and disturbing. One expects such lists for politicians but not professors. A seasoned and noble professor (and I have no reason to believe that you or many others in that list d not fall in that category) should not openly declare affiliation with a political/economic ideology. You should declare yourselves open-minded and impartial even if you side with the libertarian philosophy more often than others. You are professors, academics, engrossed in the process of learning and enlightenment. Define yourselves by your work and not political labels.
PS. Mr. Buchanan’s affiliation with GMU is not noted.
Posted by: Chairman Mao at Jun 22, 2006 6:49:57 PM
Thanks for the list of libertarians in particular! I have for a while been considering going to the US to take some of my econ-courses, and now you've given me quite a bit of information concerning one of the most important variables in the decision-making-proces.
I mean, why would I go to the US to hear about the benefits of a high-minimum wage and government intervention? I don't need to go to the US to learn this, they manage that just fine where I am studying now (wellfare-state-Denmark).
Being from Denmark I could not help looking up our libertarian professors. Only Nicolai Foss was mentioned!
We have a few more, you know (but unfortunately, only a few more). What happened to Jesper Lau Hansen, Martin Paldam, Christian Bjørnskov and Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, for instance? None of those professors would be sorry to wear that label, I can tell you that.
Posted by: US at Jun 22, 2006 10:01:25 PM
People are going to be having sex with robots within five years? I'm sorry but it's already happened.
(It's amazing the things you learn when you hang out with drunk engineers.)
Posted by: Ronald Brak at Jun 22, 2006 10:29:24 PM
Release the fembots!
- Josh
Posted by: Wild Pegasus at Jun 23, 2006 11:21:47 AM
The Top-Down Hawking theory, at least with so cursory a presentation, leaves many questions open. For instance, if in the early moments of the universe there was a super-position of possible universes, the question still remains as to why this superposition even existed. To return to ever that baffling question: why is there something rather than nothing? Hawking's theory is silent on that question. Further, of all the possible universes, it is both improbable and surprising that THIS one exists. Hawking evidently appeals to an argument along the following lines to spoil this surprise:
(1)- Life would exist, if the universe were a certain way.
(2)- The universe is that way.
(3)- (1) explains (2)
Call the set of fine tunings necessary to support life, a Special Feature. If we suppose that the universe has some special feature, which of two beliefs seem more credible: that the universe merely happens to have this feature or that the universe is that way because it has that feature? Hawking wants to say the later, but there's no argument in the article for it. As an aside, it's interesting that they draw on the jargon of Derek Parfit's article, "Why anything? Why this?" London Review of Books, 1998.
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