Hmm I was mainly thinking of the”redistribute sex” phrasing fiasco, slatestarcodex being contra hanson on healthcare, tyler cowen being contra hanson on the self evaluated property tax, and the brutal quote tweets. But maybe these are in fact symptoms of success and I have it partially backwards… Hmm
That case (I didn’t follow the others) seemed like it was mostly about confusion over what Hanson’s position even is. Maybe because Hanson and/or people misunderstanding him tried to compress it into short tweets.
Tyler regularly disagrees with his colleagues. If he were one of them he might think to himself “Alex is the best truth-tracker, so I should check what he thinks on the issue”, but Tyler doesn’t regard truth as something to optimize for.
Hmm I was mainly thinking of the”redistribute sex” phrasing fiasco, slatestarcodex being contra hanson on healthcare, tyler cowen being contra hanson on the self evaluated property tax, and the brutal quote tweets. But maybe these are in fact symptoms of success and I have it partially backwards… Hmm
That case (I didn’t follow the others) seemed like it was mostly about confusion over what Hanson’s position even is. Maybe because Hanson and/or people misunderstanding him tried to compress it into short tweets.
Tyler regularly disagrees with his colleagues. If he were one of them he might think to himself “Alex is the best truth-tracker, so I should check what he thinks on the issue”, but Tyler doesn’t regard truth as something to optimize for.