@Jonathanglick @jayulfelder does that mean that every evangelical religion, whose theology might include ideas like "believers who repent will enjoy eternal salvation, while others will not", and who therefore (altruistically, starting from their axioms) would ideally want all people to become converts, should be thought of as in some ethically important sense as genocidal?
@Jonathanglick (Maybe the smooth onboarding is less marginal than I think! Or at least maybe Substack is marketing it to writers that way, whether it proves accurate or not, to jumpstart participation!)
@Jonathanglick Those longform writers mostly used to be on Twitter too, and I think the notes part is open without pay, for now. To the degree notes succeeds, like Twitter, or here, there will be a financial incentive to market ones work there. Probably the onboarding to subscribing will be even smoother than Substack makes it in general from notes, but I think that's a pretty marginal difference. 1/
@Jonathanglick For now, I think it's populated because subscription Substackers think quite highly of that platform, and are willing to help jumpstart notes with them. Its value might become a victim of success, if it really does become a new Twitter, as the clientele grows less select. But for now it is mostly Substack writers and subscribers (I found myself there via Substack's mailing digests to subscribers), which is imparts a helpful selection bias. /fin
I do not wish Substack Notes well. I am done with the internet architecture it represents.
So I am unhappy to report, after lurking for a bit, so far its value proposition of "Twitter, but constituted mostly of longform writers and their readers" is compelling. It's worth thinking about a more open and decentralized way to encourage such a forum.
“it is the enormous inequality of our society—the vast difference in wealth and income between the rarefied top and the rest of us—that creates the structural circumstances that give rise to corruption… The disparity is the root cause of the problem.” @jeffspross https://open.substack.com/pub/theworkbench/p/to-get-rid-of-corruption-in-high
i don’t really get the scandal, doesn’t everybody love a robes-to-riches story?
“We must avoid the schoolteacher attitude to politics and business, marking the work of politicians and businessmen as if it were a test of intellectual ability and singling out the best and worst students. Instead, we must consider institutions. Do we have those institutions which help filter out incompetence and bias, or which are resilient to error? The answer, for now, is: no.” #ChrisDillow https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2023/04/when-clever-people-do-stupid-things.html #ViaRSS
Lots of useful economic history in this @theprospect piece by #MegJacobs https://prospect.org/economy/2023-04-13-forgotten-left-economics-tradition/ ht @chrishenjum #mastecon
@SteveRoth this analysis by @blair_fix is compelling in conventional terms, but a bit more complicated if holding gains are computed as income, per your work, given the effect of interest rates on term asset prices.
was ZIRP a gift to capital (bc asset price appreciation) or a win for workers (bc factor income shares)? https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/04/16/how-interest-rates-redistribute-income/
playing with generative models feels like psychoanalysis: free associate to *this*, let’s see where you go!
but it’s hard to know if you are “psychoanalyzing” society, the training set, or idiosyncrasies in the way the model interprets the training set. ymmv!
What would it look like to separate payments and deposits from the risk lending side of banking?
@SteveRoth thinks it through. https://open.substack.com/pub/wealtheconomics/p/perfectly-safe-deposits-and-robust
today in government in the sunshine… https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/os-ne-education-public-records-cost-20230413-6e45hkjnvnfkto2nioj3wgemyi-story.html
“Decades of assuming that govt actors don’t know enough to intervene in the marketplace have created a self-fulfilling prophecy in which govt actors actually don’t know, because they have never done industrial policy, have never been taught to do industrial policy, and lack the appropriate institutions and information to do it well, even if they abstractly knew how. Parts of the govt that used to be directly engaged with economic planning have withered away” @henryfarrell https://crookedtimber.org/2023/04/13/industrial-policy-and-the-new-knowledge-problem/
ron desantis just made himself unelectable in any national race. probably even in florida next time around.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @markhughes really? the reveal isn’t that we spy on allies. it’s the specifics. it won’t help Sisi’s counterintelligence, or put US sympathetic persons at risk, to know exactly what has been eavesdropped? it won’t harm our intelligence broadly if pessimistic assessments of a battlefield situation have to be treated as public, so become as impossible to make in private as they are in public (reasonably, since public pronouncements can self-fulfill).
I seek to follow high ethical standards, so there is no reason that any law should apply to me. https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3948631-the-supreme-court-has-no-code-of-conduct-its-starting-to-show/
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @markhughes i think it very much the case that information is way overclassified for bullshit CYA and office politics reasons. it’s also the case that some information are correctly classified. this leaker who was trying to impress his gamer friends waa not leaking inter-office embarrassments. he was leaking revealing details about surveillance of very “hot” ongoing crises that quite properly were classified.
think of the possibilities for honeytraps made from kindness rather than lust or avarice.
place a politically inconvenient person in a situation where a cooperating undocumented migrant needs help. have the migrant in some offhand way reveal their status. if the kindness does not immediately desist, you’ve made yourself a felon.
for a political coalition built around unkindness as retribution for perceived grievance, this kind of trap may be usefully selective.
how on earth would a 21 year old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard have access to all this shit? isn’t access to classified information compartamentalized, even among people with security clearances that would permit them, if they had a good reason, to see it? you’d think the US security state would have learned a little from Manning and Snowden? maybe they need to learn from firms like Apple about how to restrict information flows by default?
You’ve got to love the implications for liberty of a decision that says any doctors that might be called to treat a person who takes a risk that doesn’t work out are “harmed” and have standing to sue to prevent the risk-taking.
Doctors Against Skiing could put an end to the lax permitting process that allows such a dangerous sport to exist.
Shouldn’t ER doctors have standing then to sue gun manufacturers?