Latent Space Cryptid
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Latent Space Cryptid
@lscryptid
just following the gradient
cyberia Katılım Temmuz 2025
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So it turns out 'Texturelessness' is the most powerful word in the English language, and I've no idea why.
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@IronicProfessor Are Unlearning's arguments concerning rent control sound?
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I know it’s a competitive category, but I still think no field can touch economics as a snobby, joyless, credentialist priesthood
Phil Magness@PhilWMagness
This "economist" is a heterodox crackpot with no scholarly publications, blogging in a socialist webzine about how he thinks all of mainstream economics is wrong. This is akin to invoking a certificate in homeopathic crystal healing as a defense from criticism by a brain surgeon
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Again, I'm not obliged to write a line-by-line rebuttal of a low grade declamatory blog post full of heterodox slop that has been explicitly rejected and explicitly refuted 1000x over by the mainstream of the economics profession.
Your demand is akin to insisting that I write a line-by-line refutation of a random youtube video that claims the planet is a giant flat disk floating on the back of a turtle who lives at the center of a giant nested case of increasingly larger rotating celestial spheres.
In reality, it's sufficient to dismiss such a video by pointing to every astronomer since Copernicus (and quite a few before) while noting that the guy who made the video is an obvious crackpot.
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@JeremyTColes @PhilWMagness What mistakes lol?
Phil said he had no scholarly publications. Turns out that was an "oops" on his part hes been moving goalposts around to avoid.
I also never said he was teaching faculty, but I guess pomo Phil thinks giving lectures and meeting students isnt teaching...
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Firstly, he does have scholarly publications in the field.
Secondly, he has a PhD in economics and teaches at the London School of Economics
Thirdly, none of that is really important. What is would be your argument against his claims, which right now doesn't seem to exist.
Phil Magness@PhilWMagness
This "economist" is a heterodox crackpot with no scholarly publications, blogging in a socialist webzine about how he thinks all of mainstream economics is wrong. This is akin to invoking a certificate in homeopathic crystal healing as a defense from criticism by a brain surgeon
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Matt: the Unlearning Economics guy teaches at LSE. That makes him prestigious.
Me: Per LSE's own website, he's a "Visiting Fellow" - an unpaid and noncontractual title that gives him library access. He does not teach at LSE.
Matt: How dare you insult his employment precarity!
Matt McManus@MattPolProf
@PhilWMagness Lol so your argument is he's unpaid and disadvantaged...but still managed to to publish scholarly work while maintaining a popular channel with millions of views. Would that most of were so admirably bootstrapping...
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@MattPolProf @PhilWMagness he provided evidence agains't your claim @MattPolProf, I think you are struggling with the concept of an argument.
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@PhilWMagness Lol guess Im in the Beckett situation. Maybe tommorow that argument against him will come. Maybe...
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@MattPolProf @PhilWMagness Are you illiterate @MattPolProf ? You stated explicitly that Unlearning "teaches" at the LSE, @PhilWMagness provided evidence agains't that claim.
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@PhilWMagness Lol so your argument is he's unpaid and disadvantaged...but still managed to to publish scholarly work while maintaining a popular channel with millions of views.
Would that most of were so admirably bootstrapping...
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And Bret Weinstein is a PhD biologist, but you (rightfully) don't believe him on vaccines.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
@DKThomp Unlearning Economics is a PhD economist who works at LSE.
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@PhilWMagness Unlearning Economics is to economics what Michael Behe is to biology x.com/lscryptid/stat…
Latent Space Cryptid@lscryptid
Wow Unlearning has a phd in econ so can help me "unlearn" a few of my ideological presumptions about capitalism? Michael Behe has a phd in biochem maybe I can 'unlearn' Darwinism from him!
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This "economist" is a heterodox crackpot with no scholarly publications, blogging in a socialist webzine about how he thinks all of mainstream economics is wrong.
This is akin to invoking a certificate in homeopathic crystal healing as a defense from criticism by a brain surgeon
whatever man@_vectorist
You “need a little dose of economics,” says Derek Thompson, to a PhD economist at the London School of Economics. Behold the intellectual arrogance and incuriosity of the Abundance movement
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@K_Niemietz This is just intelligent design but for econ x.com/lscryptid/stat…
Latent Space Cryptid@lscryptid
Wow Unlearning has a phd in econ so can help me "unlearn" a few of my ideological presumptions about capitalism? Michael Behe has a phd in biochem maybe I can 'unlearn' Darwinism from him!
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a geographer explains how the earth is actually flat, and how it's cringe to suggest otherwise
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
an economist explains how rent control is actually fine and good currentaffairs.org/news/rent-cont…
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Wow Unlearning has a phd in econ so can help me "unlearn" a few of my ideological presumptions about capitalism? Michael Behe has a phd in biochem maybe I can 'unlearn' Darwinism from him!
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
@DKThomp You should read his blog/book and watch his channel, you might "unlearn" a few of your own ideological presumptions, and maybe you'd even end up responding to his arguments rather than mindlessly repeating the conventional wisdom that he carefully and methodically challenges.
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Capitalism literally invented a cure for Jeet Heer being a fat, disgusting retard but he still wants to replace it with gay race communism
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first we killed god, then we killed reason. what's up next
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aren't you literally a communist ?
John Ganz@lionel_trolling
Natalism and anti-natalism are equally annoying. Why don't you just mind your own fucking business?
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This is an interesting exchange between Yair Rosenberg, who knows a lot about this subject, and Nathan Robinson, whose entire shtick is pretending he knows everything about everything. See Yair's response.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
@Yair_Rosenberg You are an incredibly dishonest writer who has deliberately left out every quote from Einstein that supports Piker's position and undermines your own. If your undergraduate thesis on Einstein is as intellectually dishonest as this article then your degree should be revoked.
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The Good White Men of the academic left are back on X, calling other white (and some nonwhite) men racist for disagreeing with Cedric Robinson. Nature is healing.
Aufhebunga Bunga@BungaCast
@g_shullenberger @samhaselby @stschrader1 Looks like the BlueSky refugees are back
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