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Barry Lam 🥢

@profbarrylam

Philosophy Professor at UC Riverside. Associate Director at Marc Sanders Foundation. Executive Producer of Hi-Phi Nation podcast. I mostly tweet at @Hiphination

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"Young people shouldn't go to college, they should go into trades...." as though students at at least four top academic universities in the country don't already treat them as trade schools for the tech industry.

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I wrote about whether you have to have a reason for changing what yiu want. If not, maybe we should accept expiration dates on our long term plans. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinatio…

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Do more rules make us better—or just more obedient? 🧠📜 Explore why expanding discretion might lead to better people, not just better compliance. 👉 loom.ly/OjWVnn4 #Law #Liberty #Incentives #EconLog Barry Lam 🥢 @IdeasandReality

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And Kevin has a lot to disagree with in the latest post. The most thorough and fair review of my book yet. Please read the series!

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Just explained to my wife, who has never fired a gun, what Nate Dogg had to do to have sixteen in the clip and one in the hole. She finally recognized just how much planning had to be done well in advance to make some bodies turn cold.

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Really interesting dialogue by Barry Lam 🥢 with "imagined" philosophers debating the purpose of graduate programs in philosophy. It's obvious who Blam is, but what about Jordan? May represent many but the reference to having one's work read 200 years from now might be a clue.👇

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Why do players of games not use winning strategies like the underarm serve in tennis, the granny shot in basketball, or “pattern fighting” in Street Fighter II. I wrote about taboos in fames and what they say about the limits of rational self-interest. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinatio…

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.@IdeasandReality wraps up his review (maybe?) of Barry Lam 🥢's new book at EconLog: loom.ly/QIdM6hw Drop by and share YOUR thoughts today!

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Kevin Corcoran, Kevin completes an epic, multi-week review of Fewer Rules Better People, with some agreements, some criticisms, but overall a very thorough and charitable reading of the book. econlib.org/author/kcorcor…

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Being fact-checked by the New Yorker is wild. Did I say “boy they fuckin’ failed the exam miserably.” Yes I think I did say that.

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What do the Rise of Skywalker and McMansion have in common with Derek Parfit? I wrote about whether the academic philosophy publishing model creates a "too many cooks in the kitchen" problem. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinatio…

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Writing a trade book in philosophy is thinking that you can advertise with a nice looking flyer an eight hour monologue featuring only your thoughts, and betting at least 20,000 people will buy a ticket for $35.