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Comment on Am I Forgetting Anything Important? by Charlie Deist

Charlie Deist — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:51:55 +0000

I might add uncertainty.

Comment on Why Economic Growth Matters by Josh Weil

Josh Weil — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:07:15 +0000

The formula is 70/g. I can give the formal reasoning if anyone wants to hear it.

Comment on Ideas pt.2 by Who Are You Calling Friend, Buddy? | Radical Ignorance

Who Are You Calling Friend, Buddy? | Radical Ignorance — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:11:20 +0000

[...] I’m the child of Latino and Asian immigrants who worked as janitors so I could be the first in my family to attend college. I went on to teach college courses to new citizens. I know the true spirit of California opportunity and optimism is nurtured in great schools, not failed prisons. Awesome. Then you should support school choice. [...]

Comment on Ideas pt.2 by Josh Weil

Josh Weil — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:15:53 +0000

State employees have a natural interest and bias towards educating people to perpetuate and strengthen the state, and that upsets me.

You don’t need government-run education to have citizens that can support a functioning democracy. Before there were compulsory education laws in Britain and the United States, education was near universal and financed much more locally.

P.S. I haven’t read his blog, I’ll check it out.

P.P.S I’ll comment on your post on your blog.

Comment on Ideas pt.2 by Kari

Kari — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:05:04 +0000

Maybe true from individuals’ POV, but our state, as a democracy, has a defined interested in creating millions of people who can best perpetuate said democracy — i.e., educational indoctrination.

P.S. Do you read Al Roth’s market design blog? He does some stuff on school choice; especially SF, since they’re moving forward with a new school choice system now

P.P.S. http://ideaing.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-straightest-path-for-public-schools/

Comment on More on Ideas by Ideas pt.2 | Radical Ignorance

Ideas pt.2 | Radical Ignorance — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:28:05 +0000

[...] post, I talked about the dangerous potential of government implemented top-down bad ideas. I think every [...]

Comment on Going Meta: Part 1 by Charlie Deist

Charlie Deist — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:52:36 +0000

Thanks for that link Paul! I think your analysis is spot on. In fact, because I agree with your post on biases so much, I think that reading it released some endorphins and reinforced some of my biases.

Oh well, you can’t say we didn’t try!

Comment on “Whose street? Our street!” by Sam

Sam — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:29:26 +0000

Find the grammatical error: “Beyond the poor grammar lies a disgusting neglect for peoples’ property.”

Comment on “Whose street? Our street!” by Sulo

Sulo — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:43:38 +0000

I didn’t approve of people’s behavior last night. It was going to be a dance party– I was going to go but I couldn’t make it–I’m am sorry that the Berkeley Police Department has to take care of this shit. Hopefully next time this won’t happen; I love dancing.

Comment on Going Meta: Part 1 by “Whose street? Our street!” | Radical Ignorance

“Whose street? Our street!” | Radical Ignorance — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:58:51 +0000

[...] Crowds can’t have feelings. Ayn Rand astutely noted that there are no collective minds. I get the intentions here. The author is trying to frame this as a David v. Goliath, 101 Dalmatians v Cruella de Vil, Rudy v. Notre Dame, etc., triumph of the crowd. It ain’t doing much for my heartstrings, but maybe I’m just biased. [...]