My best tweet reply ever was: “Non nocere, Nocera” To “BS Joe”, the shoddy Joe Nocera @opinion_joe who tried to give me a hard time about “iatrogenics” without knowing it meant… his name.
Asides
Yes people mistake my point in fooled by randomness as saying “it’s all random”. My point is that it is more random than it seems. There is signal in noise. Conspiracy theorizing is a disease that affects people intelligent enough to detect a pattern, but not intelligent enough (or not mentally balanced enough) to not get fooled by random arrangements. Overdetection, the domain of loonies, is vastly worse than underdetection.
Nothing in a (detective) novel is random. Life is not a detective novel.
When people die after eating pistachio ice cream [unsweetened], you don’t naively attribute their death to what they ate. With 2 M followers, @jordanbpeterson is under moral obligation to not be spreading statistical disinformation. Or to learn statistics. Peterson is a fraud.
Plenty during the deregulation that started during the Carter (short) years And during the roaring socialists days in France.
Conspiracy theorizing is a disease that affects people intelligent enough to detect a pattern, but not intelligent enough (or not mentally balanced enough) to not get fooled by random arrangements. Overdetection, the domain of loonies, is vastly worse than underdetection.
This is a Greek Tragedy. Salvatore “The Bull” Gravano had to uccidere a man who knew how to die with dignity. [0-10m] Note: Consigliere pron. “gonzyer”, Cosa Nostra “Gozinaustr'” [Old S. Italian w/a “c” similar to semitic Q, like Capicola =Gabagool]
Naive libertarians like you w/Ayn Rand character names think like amoebas, making children sophisticated by comparison. You have no understanding of scaling, nuances,& the fact that an individual is embedded in an interractive environment w/other humans. Children are less naive. Few Covidopaths are circulating a statement from my Principia saying the majority should not coerce the minority. Misses the earlier statment in Principia that this does not apply to pandemics where risks don’t scale properly; minority threatens majority. The Gov main role is PP.
#LOCALISM Lebanese friends, 4y ago I committed to a group in Starbucks Byblos to make my work available in Lebanese (Levantine), not Arabic [both Latin & Semitic script]. Delayed by the crisis, here is the first book, tr by @HsenAndil & Ali Mahmoud. Diaspora can read on Kindle.
Correct. Inflation is not coming from wage rigidity, money supply, or supply chain disruptions; all these are bubkes. It is in the >$120 Trillion of paper money (70 in US) (includes ~$3 T of crypto). Low interest rates (discount factor) inflate assets. Paper money is just air.
