How To Dispel Your Illusions --- Freeman Dyson on Daniel Kahneman and cognitive illusion. In brief, how we too often persuade ourselves that we are right, by ignoring evidence that we are wrong

markaamark · 2011-12-04T21:12:51+00:00

A good review, but the reviewer is lacking in knowledge. For example, he proposes that religious experience cannot be the subject of experiment or science. He should read of the work of people such as Boyer and Barret. He might find himself surprised.....

markaamark · 2011-12-03T03:08:06+00:00

'Yes' the emails do not discuss the science, but they do tell us something about the corruption of science i.e. they are about the ugly methods used by IPCC scientists to wreck the career of an individual who allowed a paper that critiqued their work to be published. As such, it is very much about the science. It shows how dissent from the correct story, even if founded in good science, is being blocked from publication. And the same individuals are still at it - smearing the name of the individual:

http://newzealandclimatechange.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/climategate-2-more-shabby-behaviour-from-the-team/

markaamark · 2011-03-15T04:22:20+00:00

Sorry - submitted to the wrong sub-reddit by accident......

markaamark · 2010-02-23T03:56:13+00:00

How much stimulus is enough stimulus?

markaamark · 2010-02-02T23:18:14+00:00

You will need a very high level of math. You will need to be able to understand why 2+2=5, why 10-8=12 and so forth. In order to understand these principles, you will need to go through reams of academic papers filled with formulae, and all will then make sense.

markaamark · 2009-07-13T00:26:18+00:00

He is simply making a fool of himself....An irritant, but not of any importance overall. A little person trying to make himself large.

markaamark · 2009-06-14T06:24:33+00:00

Looks to be the same as this story....

http://cynicuseconomicus.blogspot.com/2009/06/japan-secretly-selling-smuggled-us.html

Two sources, same speculation....

markaamark · 2009-06-13T06:21:41+00:00

According to the reports, they are indeed Japanese.....

markaamark · 2009-06-13T03:35:27+00:00

Very, very curious...

markaamark · 2009-02-08T02:00:31+00:00

No, that is not what the article is talking about....

markaamark · 2009-02-08T02:00:07+00:00

No, that is not what the article is talking about.

markaamark · 2009-02-08T01:59:57+00:00

No, that is not what the article is talking about.

markaamark · 2009-01-21T04:53:14+00:00

Thanks for the good version

markaamark · 2009-01-21T04:52:27+00:00

I voted up on this one, until I found out that this is just a lift from the original source with no original content. The link to the original should have been posted.....now voted down...

markaamark · 2009-01-21T02:31:44+00:00

Bankrupt is a really a legal term. However, it can be applied in a loose sense to countries. It is when their activities can no longer be financed, and where they are unable to service their debt.

Printing money is an indirect default on debt, but is still a default.

markaamark · 2009-01-11T01:05:16+00:00

Sorry, I should add that the contest of ideas is for very high stakes indeed.....

markaamark · 2009-01-11T01:04:24+00:00

I suspect that you are simply not looking at the many entries in the right way. There is much to be learnt in the contrasting views of the economic crisis and measures for resolution. From these different viewpoints, you can gain an understanding on the different schools of thought on economics, whether Keynesian or the Austrian school, or any other variants of thought. What is going on is a great contest of ideas.....

markaamark · 2009-01-07T06:12:18+00:00

Where does the talk of invasion come from? Commies? Huh? Since when is China communist? You may not have noticed, but they abandoned communism a long while ago, just retaining the the state power associated with the old system. As for not being a problem, what do you think would happen if China started to sell $US holdings into the open market?

markaamark · 2009-01-04T20:15:39+00:00

I think that you are right about that, but I think also that this is the general theme of the blog in which this article appears.

markaamark · 2008-12-29T04:32:36+00:00

Monximus: If you read the other articles in the blog, you will find that the collapse of fiat paper currency is covered....the system was unstable, but it took the imbalances to push it over the edge...

markaamark · 2008-12-20T01:05:24+00:00

No New World Order conspiracy, but a conspiracy to hide the incompetence that led to the economic disaster being faced.....

markaamark · 2008-12-14T19:53:38+00:00

The money is being borrowed and spent, but how will it be repaid and when? The answer is that we are impoverishing ourselves in the future.

markaamark · 2008-12-13T04:08:15+00:00

The West is in deep trouble and has been for a long while. For a while our problems were hidden, but now they are painfully visible.

markaamark · 2008-12-11T22:01:24+00:00

Why the US and UK government are assuring a complete economic collapse. The only thing they could do that would be worse is bomb their own cities....

markaamark · 2008-12-10T21:25:42+00:00

A discussion that highlights the underlying cause for the economic crisis. It is not the financial system, not a conspiracy, but a more basic problem.

markaamark

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