Patrick Armstrong — Trump Cuts the Gordian Knot of Foreign Entanglements

 

Interesting theory along the lines of Scott Adams, who has pretty consistently been proved correct by events and who Armstrong cites.

(All real theories must be falsifiable; let's see in a year's time whether the US is more entangled or less entangled. It should be pretty apparent by then and, by the end of Trump's first term, obvious to all.)

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Trump Cuts the Gordian Knot of Foreign Entanglements

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Scott Adams — The Turn to “Effective, but we don’t like it.”

Scott makes another prediction.

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The Turn to “Effective, but we don’t like it.”

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Scott Adams — Is Twitter Shadowbanning me?

Don't make enemies with a cartoonist with a major following.

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Is Twitter Shadowbanning me?

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Miles Kimball — Scott Adams on Donald Trump's Powers of Persuasion

Miles Kimball notices Scott Adams. IIRC, Miles Kimball was Noah Smith's dissertation adviser, so expect Noah to pick up on it, too.

Why is this important for economics? Because it shows that voting choice is not so much about policy (rational) but rather about persuasion and shaping perceptions (non-rational). The fact of the matter is that arguably most choices socially, political and economically are "managed" by preseason rather than "free" and "rational" as assumed.

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Scott Adams on Donald Trump's Powers of Persuasion
Miles Kimball | Professor of Economics and Survey Research at the University of Michigan

Scott Adams — Science Proves Science is an Illusion

This is a pretty fair summary of the position of perennial wisdom, although PW is moe sophisticated. Scott Adams seems to have stumbled upon it. However, it doesn't seem to have realized yet that this implies that "consciousness"is primary rather than "matter," and that it's all done with "smoke and mirrors." The quotes mean that these terms are ambiguous in ordinary language and needs further specification to be meaningful. In a sense, that is what the history of world thought is about. "Philosophy" is too restrictive.

Anyway, Scott's post is a fun read. Make what you want of it.

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Science Proves Science is an Illusion

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Scott Adams — The Thinking Filters

Logic versus rhetoric, reason versus persuasion.

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The Thinking Filters

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert