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Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
"Backing up to fire and human evolution, what are alternative animals that would have the intelligence and manipulative ability to control fire?" Salamanders, obviously....
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
I'm really not sure the economic explanation works, because there are poor and rich on both sides. Okay? Take a matrix of legislative votes or survey responses. Run some kind of dimension reduction over it. The usual ways to do...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
As it happens, people can, have, and frequently do run various dimension-reduction routines over American legislative voting and mass surveys. While, yeah, individual issues sometimes matter, it turns out that a single dimension that looks like "broadly economic left-right" explains...