23 December 09 - 22:46Roko Mijic at Good.is: The Utopia Force
"If we consider all the possible ways that the universe could be arranged, and rank them in terms of how good they would be, Banks’ utopia certainly gets a very high rank. But it seems unlikely that it is the very best—or even close to the best. Banks’ utopia represents the limit of good experiences that we can currently think of and realize are good according to our complex values. Just how much better could it get?"
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2009/12/roko-mijic-at-goodis-the-utopia-force/
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16 December 09 - 10:47Would cutting the minimum wage raise employment?
"..the belief that lower wages would raise overall employment rests on a fallacy of composition. In reality, reducing wages would at best do nothing for employment; more likely it would actually be contractionary."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/would-cutting-the-minimum-wage-raise-employment/
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09 December 09 - 09:39Less Wrong: 11 core rationalist skills
An excellent way to improve one's skill as a rationalist is to identify one's strengths and weaknesses, and then expend effort on the things that one can most effectively improve (which are often the areas where one is weakest). This seems especially useful if one is very specific about the parts of rationality, if one describes them in detail.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ht/11_core_rationalist_skills/
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01 December 09 - 08:41Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public
"I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit," said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0
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