"95% of Americans Are Falling into Intellectual Barbarism. Here's Why It Won't Lead to the Dark Ages"
These thoughts comfort me. Maybe you too-- or maybe you don't think China taking over culture is a plus.
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Posts by Professor Eric Rasmusen (Indiana)
My 7th grade math girls came up with the best method for filling out your tax returns:
Have your husband do it.
Assigning them the Schedule D capital gainsworksheet probably has made them more eager to get married early.
How should Catholics react to a Pope's statements? See ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/what-obedi... Comments and corrections welcomed.
Today's substack: Easy and quick ways to reform universities: ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/easy-ways-...
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Help make Bluesky more intellectual. Repost this fun math tweet.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I've trie da corporte law questiton where AI gotit wrog, but gave the expected wrong answer, a reasonablel oe--- but also the citations where I could find nd rthe real answer. A genuine lawyerly skill is, "Ask an expert's casual opinion, but then check to see if he's right".
I am a transactional lawyer and I've had 3 clients this week tell me they ran documents through Chat GPT and it gave them legal advice that contradicated my advice. In all 3 cases the Chat GPT advice was wildly wrong but sounded convincing to my clients
An alternative to price controls is being able to sue firms that raise their prices. Even more extreme, firms that didn't raise them, but have high prices.
Poor logic there. The ship heard him, and changed their plans instantly and started sailing?
I didn't read carefully. But remember :Twitter, or Bluesky, is really just conversation, tentative, not reseach.
I hope they win. Does a sort of Chevrn still hold here?
Where have all the comments gone?
For decades, the American Economic Review regularly published formal comments — papers that replicate, reassess, or challenge earlier AER articles.
In our latest blog post, we show: they’ve nearly disappeared.
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