You should be much more ashamed of things you didn’t say than you are of things you said.

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Overnutrition is now killing far more people than hunger, and comfort is killing much more than violence.

(Modernity & Denial of Antifragility)

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Behind the ideas of small is beautiful, decentralization, and localism, is that is much harder to microbullshit than macrobullshit.

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We Can Start Exposing Economists:
I just finished a very rough draft of Fat Tails & AntiFragility ~100 pages. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_31K_MP92hURjZxTkxUTFZnMVk/edit?pli=1 PART I provides a mathematical toolkit to detect anything that is bullshit in economic modeling particularly macroeconomics, figure out which papers are flawed from a scientific standpoint, etc. When I mean flawed, it is on the basis that the math used impresses nonmathematicians but does not support the stated policy conclusions.
So I start by putting one Karl Whelan “scientific” work under severe mathematical scrutiny. I select him to start as he worked with central banks, the perfect profile of the person supported by the taxpayer against the taxpayer’s own interests. I also had a disgraceful encounter with him and his macro peers on twitter.Mr Whelan’s papers can be found here: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pwh23.htmlWe can progressively expose mathematized social science that way, as I am refining the text, adding words and examples.

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Never buy a product that the owner of the company that makes it doesn’t use, or, in the case of, say, medication, woudn’t contingently use.
Generalized Skin in the Game

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