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GMU's Mercatus Center: You Don’t Understand Our Culture (Robin Hanson tweet about Kavanaugh follow-up) (https://www.econlib.org/you-dont-understand-our-culture/)
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Alright, focusing on your actual statements: No, Yes, No, Yes. You're welcome.

What are the key differences between GMU econ blogger culture and mainstream intellectual culture?

Try disingenuousness and bad faith as a modus operandi rather than the ten-point list of self-indulgent ego stroking.

Also more KochBux.

Bryan anCaplan is literally that Hitler meme.

I’ve summarized these principles of GMU Economics:

  1. We can propose insane ideas if we do it politely.

  2. Our ideology doesn’t fit into either of two categories, so we clearly are unbiased.

  3. We aren’t affected by the insane shit we preach. Also, don’t forget to cite a statistic like a totally scientific poll on Twitter that totally doesn’t have any sampling bias.

  4. Gambling brings out the best of human rationality.

  5. Make no attempt to make your ideas popular.

  6. Debate us! Pay us attention.

  7. (Unintelligable)

  8. Pay no attention to the money we get from the Koch brothers, it has no affect on us.

  9. Our interpetation of Bayes theorem solves all philosophical issues. (But never apply Bayes Rule to itself.)

  10. Suck up to the powerful.

Listen, I strategically appease Satan with human sacrifices, but that doesn't mean I think he's right. Please judge me by what I say.
> But never apply Bayes Rule to itself. What do you mean by this? Seems interesting.

What’s interesting is Caplan and Co. see themselves as different because they follow these guidelines.

I always saw myself as different from them because I kept roughly (though less hyperbolically) those sorts of guidelines in mind, and didn’t reify them into ridiculous lists of rules the way it always seems to me everybody is always doing.

  1. for example. Yeah I fucking hate Jeremy Corbyn, also I’m a Labour member and will vote Labour in the next election. Funny how that works.

Are these the same chucklefucks who accidentally showed that universal healthcare would be cheaper when their Koch Brother bosses specifically told them to do the opposite?

Yes, so they figured out ways to make the numbers seem big anyway, by accumulating it over 30 years, and also having the news media imply that this would be an additional cost, not the total cost: https://twitter.com/ARmastrangelo/status/1041414058614943744

People should start taking shits on this guy’s desk and leaving notes about how using toilets are not part of their culture.