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Comment author: timtyler 03 July 2011 11:49:50PM *  0 points [-]

A mathematician like Baez can indeed be that wrong, when he discusses technical topics that he is insufficiently familiar with.

What about Robin Hanson? See for example his post here and here.

Doesn't seem to agree with Baez on the subject of utility maximisation. Baez was making no sense - he does seem to be "that wrong" on the topic.

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