Hi! My name is Maarten van Doorn. I’m a PhD candidate in philosophy and a writer at Medium. I’ve read some Less Wrong things here and there, especially a couple things on Slate Star Codex, but David Siegel convinced me to really go deeper on this. I’ve just finished Inadequate Equilibria and the book made me enthusiastic, so I decided to make an account here. I especially liked the emphasis on bottom-up explanations of why things are as they are, instead of pointing to—gesturing at—grand theoretical reasons. On just high school economics, some parts of the book were a challenge, but that’s what I love. It caused my to check Veritasium’s videos on Bayesian Reasoning, dust that off, and ask my economist friends a shitload of questions on (for them) relatively basic concepts. I’m going to read the additional chapter on Hero Licensing now. Thanks for all this amazing content guys!
Hi! My name is Maarten van Doorn. I’m a PhD candidate in philosophy and a writer at Medium. I’ve read some Less Wrong things here and there, especially a couple things on Slate Star Codex, but David Siegel convinced me to really go deeper on this. I’ve just finished Inadequate Equilibria and the book made me enthusiastic, so I decided to make an account here. I especially liked the emphasis on bottom-up explanations of why things are as they are, instead of pointing to—gesturing at—grand theoretical reasons. On just high school economics, some parts of the book were a challenge, but that’s what I love. It caused my to check Veritasium’s videos on Bayesian Reasoning, dust that off, and ask my economist friends a shitload of questions on (for them) relatively basic concepts. I’m going to read the additional chapter on Hero Licensing now. Thanks for all this amazing content guys!
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