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2. The real value of a Senate seat
4. What does "science" tell us about the financial crisis: a symposium?
5. What Obama needs to know about drugs
Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 15, 2008 at 02:28 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
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The only thing Obama needs to know is that more drug enforcement -> more human suffering.
Posted by: Mercutio.Mont at Dec 15, 2008 3:26:38 PM
I did not appreciate the time wasted reading that article.
I do, however, welcome our new crow over-lords.
I believe the end result of said symposium is that we will discover some people's egos are too big to be of much use.
What Mercutio.Mont said.
Posted by: Steve at Dec 15, 2008 5:03:59 PM
The edge piece is pretty cool. Why the scare quotes?
Posted by: Michael F. Martin at Dec 15, 2008 5:21:09 PM
That drug list seems to have been written by someone who's paying a little too much attention to DEA bulletins. I explained in my blog why number 5 is wrong in just about every way.
Posted by: Rationalitate at Dec 15, 2008 9:50:53 PM
Of course if you interpret someone's comment to be incorrect, they must certainly be brainwashed by the government thugs.
Or he may have gotten his information from sources such as drugscience dot org, which at least in discussion treatment admissions notes high majority rates beginning under age 18 and minor majority rates beginning at age 15 or under.
I'm all for the legalization of pot, but I can't for the life of me understand why it's so difficult to make *any* comment that turns a remotely critical eye on pot use without being attacked for it.
Posted by: MM at Dec 15, 2008 10:33:49 PM
Josh Klein gave a presentation at TED about his crow vending machine, the video is here.
Posted by: at Dec 15, 2008 11:53:35 PM
#1. If it hasn't already been explored, I think we will see more investigation of how affect (mood) affects our judgment. Maybe "critical thinking" gained popularity when there was a surplus of researchers and many of them were trying to con the audience. Now, perhaps we've shifted to a relative shortage of researcher bandwidth and we need to be less critical of less polished research, thus an appreciative thinking shift. Kind of like how when you walk into an interview it would be nice to know if they are looking for reasons to accept you or looking for reasons to reject you.
By analogy, it would seem that during a booming economy or bubble inflation, everyone is looking for positives, whereas during the bust everyone returns to thinking critically.
Posted by: Andrew at Dec 16, 2008 1:46:19 AM
So that's what it has come down to. Relying on crows to provide demand for bottlers, aluminum giants and corn farmers.
Without the prison economy and THC prohibition specifically, USA GDP growth would be 1-2 % pts higher (ie. almost double) annually.
Americans would live 5 years longer and have more wealth than rest of world combined. It also diverts resources from things like preventing nuclear terrorism and bioterrorism.
Posted by: Phillip Huggan at Dec 16, 2008 11:47:35 AM
Klein, in his TED presentation linked above, envisions using crows to clean up after stadium events, scouring the parking lot for pieces of common trash and using them in crow vending machines for peanuts. Thus an entire murder of crows doing our work for peanuts on the dollar!
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