We are taking the taboo on political topics too far. Instead of avoiding mindkilling, we avoid the topics completely.

Quite recently even economics and its intersection with bias have apparently entered the territory of mindkillers. Economics was always political in the wider world, but considering this is a community dedicated to refining the art of human rationality we couldn't really afford such basic concepts to be mind killers. Can we now?

I mean how could we explore mechanisms such as prediction markets without that? How can you even talk about any kind of maximising agents without invoking lots of econ talk?