Econ Professor Trying To Lecture 300 People Who Don’t Pay Their Own Car Insurance
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“Where you see only ten sets of footprints, the reindeer and I were carrying you.”
Related: It was then that I carried you vs. Bullshit, Jesus, Those Are Obviously My Footprints
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Amazon Planning A Netflix For Books
Oh, you mean a library?
“Don’t you want to have a body?”
Two chatbots talking to one another. They’re both instances of CleverBot, as featured on Radiolab earlier in the summer.
Scott Beale says: “Cornell Creative Machines Lab wanted to see what would happend if two Cleverbot AI ChatBots had a conversation with each other.”
I think I’ve just seen the beginning of the end.
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Last-place Aversion
Wow
The Economist, on a new study on why the relatively poor often oppose raising taxes on the wealthy:
Instead of opposing redistribution because people expect to make it to the top of the economic ladder, the authors of the new paper argue that people don’t like to be at the bottom. One paradoxical consequence of this “last-place aversion” is that some poor people may be vociferously opposed to the kinds of policies that would actually raise their own income a bit but that might also push those who are poorer than them into comparable or higher positions. The authors ran a series of experiments where students were randomly allotted sums of money, separated by $1, and informed about the “income distribution” that resulted. They were then given another $2, which they could give either to the person directly above or below them in the distribution.
In keeping with the notion of “last-place aversion”, the people who were a spot away from the bottom were the most likely to give the money to the person above them: rewarding the “rich” but ensuring that someone remained poorer than themselves.
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Did I mention I like to make really dumb comics?
MEDIEVAL X-FILES
I will post actual art sometime, I promise.
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Someone write the fanfic.
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