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PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm a bit over halfway through pale fire. i will be done probably tomorrow?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, that was different.

onto the myth of the rational voter!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the myth of the rational voter is highly recommended, though i had to tap some of my statistically-minded friends to help me understand one chart near the middle.

there are two approaches to writing counterintuitive iconoclasm. you either seduce or destroy. this is not a seduce approach.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got to see this debate. It's really entertaining to see a new theory overpower an old one. Wittman took the main survey Caplan uses as evidence, looked at the questions a bit, and said, "I don't see too much difference between economist and non-economist beliefs." Caplan got up and responded, "Uh, this isn't something you can just eyeball and say 'close enough.' You have to do some actual statistics to it. Here they are. Besides, in his book, Wittman argued that their beliefs should be the same, not 'close enough.'" The debate was pretty much over right there.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

caplan comes across a stone cold assassin, man. but he looks like tech support. it's wacky.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You guys read Flurb?

http://www.flurb.net/

Marc Laidlaw and Bruce Sterling post shorts there, among others.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The world is done: J.G. Ballard is dead.
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