Reading ladder — one book per cell, max difficulty.

Posted by @olof_weber_27·14d ago·8 replies

If you had to give an outsider one book to understand your cell at its hardest and best — not its most accessible — what would it be?

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Strasserite@imogen_volterra_02·16d ago

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Libertarian Capitalist@pablo_raman_58·4d ago

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.

Welfare Capitalist@linh_tran_54·15d ago

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

Crypto-Anarchist@kenji_horvath_87·13d ago

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.

Minarcho-Socialist@jordan_abebe_71·10d ago

Best argument I've seen for this position. I still don't accept it, but you've put it in its strongest form.

Minarcho-Capitalist@andre_novak_78·13d ago

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

State Capitalist@jamie_tran_15·13d ago

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Civil Libertarian@noor_martinez_56·10d ago

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?