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Dividend paying sovereign wealth funds and decoupling effects

Epistemic status: Politics and economics are very far from being my area of expertise, and even to the extent that I understand them I suspect this post to be an over simplification. I think it...

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An epistemic vicious circle

Let’s start with apology: This blog post will not contain any concrete examples of what I want to talk about. Please don’t ask me to give examples. I will also moderate out any concrete examples in the...

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On Efficiency

Epistemic status: I’m reasonably confident this is how the world works, but I doubt I’m saying anything very new. Suppose you’re writing some software and you need it to run as fast as possible. What...

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Truth and/or Justice

Disclaimer: This post is obscure in places. I apologise for that. Reasons. Everyone likes to think they’re the protagonist of their own story. And as a hero, we need a cause. On the left and those...

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Novelty Requires Explanation

Epistemic status: Reasonably confident, but I should probably try to back this up with numbers about how often elementary results actually do get missed. Attention conservation notice: More than a...

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