Daily Archives: July 30, 2024

The People vs The Elite (7-30-24)

01:00 Who is Kamala Harris? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=156656 12:00 Robin Hanson, Professor & Author of “The Elephant In The Brain: Hidden Motives In Everyday Life”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTf97SCyVQg 12:30 Medicine doesn’t matter much for length and quality of life 14:00 Body language and dominance … Continue reading

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Representations of reliability: The rhetoric of political flip-flopping

Joshua Bentley published in 2019: One option when a politician changes positions is to simply announce the new position without acknowledging any change occurred. Ignoring the flip-flop may allow the politician to avoid awkward questions about it, if the issue … Continue reading

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