cupholder comments on Open Thread: June 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cupholder 05 June 2010 06:12:49PM 1 point [-]

Fair enough. Thanks for the Gieringer 1985 cite; it's 25 pages long so I haven't read it yet, but skimming through it I see a couple of quantitative tables, which is a good sign, and that it was published in the Cato Journal, which is not such a good sign. But it's something!

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 05 June 2010 08:08:51PM 0 points [-]

published in the Cato Journal, which is not such a good sign

I said my standards were lower. My point was that your original comment could be taken for having read this and dismissed it.

Comment author: cupholder 05 June 2010 08:26:44PM *  0 points [-]

I had noticed that you said that. I was originally not going to draw attention to the paper's source, but it occurred to me that someone might then have asked me whether I was aware of the paper's source, referring to my earlier claim that I wanted to discourage people from offering me overtly partisan analyses. So I decided to pre-empt that possible confusion/accusation by acknowledging the paper's origin from a libertarian-leaning journal.