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Cute PragerU (propaganda) video arguing against progressive taxes.



(How come these videos are *so* successful? Thoughts? Guesses?)
Video is “good” because Prager clearly articulates the value that justifies flat taxes?

(Would be unfair to make one brother pay for another’s lazy choice!)
Or maybe video is “good” b/c makes implicit premise justifying flat taxes hard to see?

(Have to realize *actual* wealth+income differences don’t come from mundane choices but from differences in endowment+ laws that differentially benefit the rich?)
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Moshe Hoffman
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Yeah, this is a good example of the insight of the game theory concept of “subgame perfection.”

Which teaches us:

Dems couldn’t give Trump wall $, even if requires burning more $ than he is demanding.

B/c if give $, T would be incentivized to make more such demands in future.
(Same insight explains why Hatfields and McCoy’s or Israel And Palestine can’t just let bygones be bygones, and are stuck in cycles of violence, even if both may wish to forgive and forget. Also explains why England had to fight expensive & useless war defending Falkland Islands)
(And why punishing in the ultimatum game makes complete sense, if you think about ultimatum game as tapping into our sense of retributive justice, which evolved in contexts of repeated interactions to be consistent with subgame perfection.)
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Moshe Hoffman
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Vestigial traits.

Some of the most straightforward evidence for human evolution.

How can anyone see this & deny human evolution? So weird.

But also, how clever of naturalists (Darwin?) to have spotted these & known to present as irrefutable evidence. So clever.
(Note to social scientists:

This evidence, once again, isn’t experimental. And yet it’s more irrefutable than any experimental evidence for evolution I can think of.

How come? What makes it so compelling? When is it better to look for evidence like this vs experiment?)
(Historians of science/naturalists: Anyone know how Darwin, or other naturalists, thought to look for this kinda thing? Seems like a non-obvious logical trick.)
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Hmm interesting question.

My take on cause of/lesson of replicability/p-hacking issues:

Classic motivated reasoning

People have strong incentive to 1) cheat, but to do so in ways that are 2) culturally acceptable and 2) plausibly deniable. AND to 3) avoid self-reflection

No?
(Thus replicability issue doesn’t say *much* about the individual (albeit is clearly a moral hazard component and individual differences to susceptibility therein), but about problems w/ institutional incentives+human nature.)
(And moral hazard component is quite hard to detect/penalize. Partly because so much is unobservable. But also even when confident the researcher was iffy, are huge incentives not to call out if not sure/others don’t agree. Hence why plausible deniability so useful.)
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