"Say it loud, say it proud, we're all Bayesians now."
Math aside, if you're trying to get productive work done, a bubble insulating from outside distractions has advantages. My young bubble included "bleeding heart libertarians":
https://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/
To those already confident that free markets are inevitably captured by t…
"Say it loud, say it proud, we're all Bayesians now."
Math aside, if you're trying to get productive work done, a bubble insulating from outside distractions has advantages. My young bubble included "bleeding heart libertarians":
To those already confident that free markets are inevitably captured by the oppressors, the "bleeding-heart libertarian" motto, "Free Markets & Social Justice", sounds like the worst possible joke. In my bubble, though, it was producing results.
Soon after college, I met some lawyers working for the Institute for Justice's Chicago small-business clinic. Of course, IJ is backed by wealthy donors who consider deregulation in their own financial interest, and who want to make deregulation look better by publicizing the cases where deregulation increases equity. Thing is, there *are* tons of regulations favoring the more privileged at the expense of the less, and when you strike those down, even if only to make deregulation in general look better, you, well, strike them down.
Most IJ staff are probably right-wing ideologues. Some, though, are political progressives who see the particular work they do at IJ as anti-racist, and are more than happy to siphon of a bit of the Kochtopus's funding for what they sincerely believe are anti-racist ends.
A little bubble like that can be productive for specific policy changes that (hopefully!) improve people's lives, precisely because it shuts out the sentiments driving electoral politics more broadly. But in a representative government, that's also its weakness, if you're trying to figure out what electoral coalitions are really about.
"Say it loud, say it proud, we're all Bayesians now."
Math aside, if you're trying to get productive work done, a bubble insulating from outside distractions has advantages. My young bubble included "bleeding heart libertarians":
https://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/
To those already confident that free markets are inevitably captured by the oppressors, the "bleeding-heart libertarian" motto, "Free Markets & Social Justice", sounds like the worst possible joke. In my bubble, though, it was producing results.
Soon after college, I met some lawyers working for the Institute for Justice's Chicago small-business clinic. Of course, IJ is backed by wealthy donors who consider deregulation in their own financial interest, and who want to make deregulation look better by publicizing the cases where deregulation increases equity. Thing is, there *are* tons of regulations favoring the more privileged at the expense of the less, and when you strike those down, even if only to make deregulation in general look better, you, well, strike them down.
Most IJ staff are probably right-wing ideologues. Some, though, are political progressives who see the particular work they do at IJ as anti-racist, and are more than happy to siphon of a bit of the Kochtopus's funding for what they sincerely believe are anti-racist ends.
A little bubble like that can be productive for specific policy changes that (hopefully!) improve people's lives, precisely because it shuts out the sentiments driving electoral politics more broadly. But in a representative government, that's also its weakness, if you're trying to figure out what electoral coalitions are really about.