Stephen Wild

Excellent choice

How Does Mel Gibson Still Have a Career? Mel Gibson's career has survived the star's earlier racist and anti-Semitic comments. Will this time be any different?

Rethinking my position 😳

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My desire to watch Walton Goggins in stuff is stronger than my desire to avoid movies featuring Mel Gibson.

The movie poster for Fat Man, starring Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins. Mel Gibsons is Santa, holding a gun. Goggles is in the background, holding an assault rifle.

I have also learned that this movie exists, and it is now on my watch list because it features Boyd Crowder:

This movie is glorious.

I want to read that book but haven't gotten to it yet. 5/5 from you makes me move it up the list

This doesn't seem that hard?

Anyway:

That makes sense to me.

Same. Hence my question.

To be clearer, do we need to consider a discount factor for something like end of life care, which does reduce mortality but less so that investments in other areas (clean water, sewage services, etc)?

In this example is this not where most healthcare spending on humans goes--that is, we spend most of our healthcare dollars to provide end of life care? If so how should we sccount for it estimating the value of statistical life?

Now do SAT/GRE discourse 😉

The Night Manager is fantastic.

I am also a fan of Justified, Abbott Rlementary, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on Alt: Milhousr says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

I thought everyone already knew.

In the golden days you would spend $9.99 on a VHS tape and record it when it was playing on TV.

Gotta be soccer 😜

Related and on point:

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My response here was partly based on the colloquial usage of principled, where it usually means or implies something like "morally upstanding." So I appreciated your response above pointing out the contradiction if your "principles" align with the incentives.

It's incentives all the way down.

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That was partly my point, albeit phrased poorly. I suspect most scientists are intrinsically motivated.

At that point I think I'm being principled and doing good work.

That's both.

I agree with your main point (it's an incentives problem). One other question is what is meant by "principles". What if I think my sloppy work is good, and some other people also think it's good?

You beat me to it!

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(Incentive = reward or punishment)

"Incentive" is one of those interesting words where the colloquial usage (incentive = benefit) does not align with its usage in economics

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Did you never watch Royal Canadian Air Farce? In the late 90s they used to get all the major politicians on there (Manning, Chrétien, Clark, etc) all the time

I never even made it that far. From a young age my parents kept telling me my listening ears were broken.

New Zealand is not a real country

I thought that was a cannon.

Either way, good call.