(4) if such a change does happen, I would prefer, and I think most people would insist, that it happen relatively slowly to give everyone then alive time to cope with the change, thus making it not really a singularity in the mathematical sense.
I agree with this position, and it was apparently controversial on the LW-TelAviv mailing list.
we are in an economic stall because of unnecessary and crony-driven overregulation, much of it done in the name of the misguided green and “social justice” movements.
I’m not sure what I could post here that would back that up: it requires some economics knowledge. I can refer you to good economics blogs such as Marginal Revolution and Cafe Hayek, or to Mises’ Human Action.
It was MR that sent me here to LW in the first place.
Austrianism and “economics knowledge” do not go together. Science is built on empiricism, not on deliberately ignoring data because your ideology tells you there can be no empirical examination of human beings.
I agree with this position, and it was apparently controversial on the LW-TelAviv mailing list.
You really ought to back that up.
I’m not sure what I could post here that would back that up: it requires some economics knowledge. I can refer you to good economics blogs such as Marginal Revolution and Cafe Hayek, or to Mises’ Human Action.
It was MR that sent me here to LW in the first place.
Austrianism and “economics knowledge” do not go together. Science is built on empiricism, not on deliberately ignoring data because your ideology tells you there can be no empirical examination of human beings.
I am sorry, and on which basis do you make sweeping claims about schools of economic thought?