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gwern comments on November 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong

3 Post author: ArisKatsaris 01 November 2014 03:42PM

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Comment author: gwern 01 November 2014 04:24:33PM 17 points [-]

Economics:

"Dirty medicine"
Peak scientist
"Slippery Business: The trade in adulterated olive oil"
"The Industrial Revolution: Past and Future" (Lucas on the Great Divergence, economic growth, the Asian miracles, and redistributionism.)
"Of Frightened Horses and Autonomous Vehicles: Tort Law and its Assimilation of Innovations", Graham 2012 (excerpts)
"Beware the Middleman: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin-Exchange Risk", Moore & Christin 2013 (excerpts)
NASHX
"Love, luck and destiny: the world according to a Mumbai matriarch"
"Bacon: Why America's Favorite Food Mania Happened"
"Nowhere is safe in EVE Online as Goonswarm suicide-bombs galactic trade hub" (shades of Eurisko)
the Currin Trading Ponzi: part 1, part 2
"When Korea's E-Sports was at the Brink of Death"
"Google's Lost Social Network" (exit, voice, and loyalty)
Obsolete occupations: breaker boy, crossing sweeper, dog whipper
Old Economy Steven

Philosophy:

Comment author: Snorri 01 November 2014 04:35:23PM 7 points [-]

I'm always so impressed by how much you contribute to these threads. Thanks.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 03 November 2014 07:19:33AM 4 points [-]

Peak scientist

I am living this reality every day...

Comment author: zslastman 09 November 2014 06:26:03PM -1 points [-]

Here here...

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 November 2014 06:09:33PM 0 points [-]

Why did you call the Google article "exit, voice, and loyalty"? That's the title of a book by Hirschman and on first skimming it seems to be related but I don't understand why exactly you chose that line.

Comment author: gwern 09 November 2014 03:11:49AM 0 points [-]

I'm implying that Hirschman's classification offers some insight into the dynamics of that incident; if you aren't familiar with it, it's probably an opaque allusion. (I wouldn't say it's a great book: it's a good trichotomy, but it doesn't really merit a whole book and would be better off as an article. On the other hand, it's not a very long book.)