Joshua Loftus (defundNYPD.com)
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Thread about activism and academic research (economics & political science in particular)There's a manipulation/intervention theory of causality, that causality is about what we could feasibly change through some hypothetical action
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Short thread on "nudges," causation, and changing behavior:A huge number of behaviors can be classified as "going with the default option"Nudges that change the default option are (paradoxically) both (1)
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I grew up in a working class family, but due to my education/career I have a lot of friends and acquaintances in the professional classThis is a thread about the
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"COVID is bad because trump is unqualified" fails as an argument because1. Comparisons to Europe2. The supposedly qualified people are the products of meritocracy--a self-mythologizing system where grifters are as
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