One argument for the TBTF paragraph was in the immediately prior paragraph. The posts I linked to at the end of the first comment in this thread are also in large part arguments in support of this thesis. Pre-WWII the US had a much weaker state. Hard to roll that back without constituting a regime collapse.
At this point I feel that I’m repeating myself enough that I don’t see how to continue this conversation productively; I don’t expect saying the same things again will lead to engagement, and I don’t expect that complaining about the problem procedurally will get a constructive response either. If you propose a well-operationalized bet and an adjudicator and escrow arrangement I will accept or reject the proposal.
I wasn’t trying to say that you had provided no argument for it, sorry! I was just curious whether you had written about this previously with a handy link. It feels like a theme in a bunch of your writing, but you seemed in a better position to remember any specific essay or section.
If you propose a well-operationalized bet and an adjudicator and escrow arrangement I will accept or reject the proposal.
I’ll think about it over the next day or two and see whether I can find something. I am currently skeptical we can find something given that I don’t expect shifts at the scale of “Stanford stop being a top university at all”. But I’ll try for a bit.
One argument for the TBTF paragraph was in the immediately prior paragraph. The posts I linked to at the end of the first comment in this thread are also in large part arguments in support of this thesis. Pre-WWII the US had a much weaker state. Hard to roll that back without constituting a regime collapse.
At this point I feel that I’m repeating myself enough that I don’t see how to continue this conversation productively; I don’t expect saying the same things again will lead to engagement, and I don’t expect that complaining about the problem procedurally will get a constructive response either. If you propose a well-operationalized bet and an adjudicator and escrow arrangement I will accept or reject the proposal.
I wasn’t trying to say that you had provided no argument for it, sorry! I was just curious whether you had written about this previously with a handy link. It feels like a theme in a bunch of your writing, but you seemed in a better position to remember any specific essay or section.
I’ll think about it over the next day or two and see whether I can find something. I am currently skeptical we can find something given that I don’t expect shifts at the scale of “Stanford stop being a top university at all”. But I’ll try for a bit.