> Fact-check of Outlive, which I reviewed here. The author found that Outlive is broadly accurate, but its claims about the importance of stability-related exercise seem to be overblown. In reality, nearly all exercise improves your balance.
You may notice I didn't review any claims from chapter 17. That's because I followed your advice to skip it.
> Economists know a lot of relatively simple rules for the economy, such as “don’t do subsidies...
What?! How are we ever going to incentivize the creation of common goods if we're not allowed to subsidize them. Sure, let the free market just keep depleting our finite common goods /s. I hate neoclassical economics.
> Not only is this outreach to conservatives, it’s outreach to the kind of conservatives that actually exist
The "tips for screwing people over" feel like a genre of story I've heard Americans tell. They're like, *almost* AITA posts? The one that really sticks out to me as evidence of a lower-trust society is the trucker one—I don't think American weigh stations try to cheat truckers like that. But if they did, there'd be tons of people online taking the side of the trucker in that scenario.
The other "life advice" post strikes me as not very out of place in certain American subcultures—though the advice would be framed more tactfully.
The story character that I would consider "Chinese Robin Hood" is named Afanti, and his thing is tricking rich people and making fools out of them. I found it interesting that instead of beating people physically, he outsmarted them. I feel like in China, there is an attitude of, "If you're stupid enough to be tricked, you deserve to be tricked." People don't realize how pro-social the west is!
> Fact-check of Outlive, which I reviewed here. The author found that Outlive is broadly accurate, but its claims about the importance of stability-related exercise seem to be overblown. In reality, nearly all exercise improves your balance.
You may notice I didn't review any claims from chapter 17. That's because I followed your advice to skip it.
> Economists know a lot of relatively simple rules for the economy, such as “don’t do subsidies...
What?! How are we ever going to incentivize the creation of common goods if we're not allowed to subsidize them. Sure, let the free market just keep depleting our finite common goods /s. I hate neoclassical economics.
> Not only is this outreach to conservatives, it’s outreach to the kind of conservatives that actually exist
I don't know about the US, but I did a political analysis of political parties' concern for animal welfare in the Netherlands and Belgium and found that it's almost exclusively a leftwing thing: https://bobjacobs.substack.com/p/animal-welfare-is-now-enshrined-in
Maybe it's different in the US, but I'm skeptical that recruiting rightwing people will be as effective as recruiting leftwing people.
The "tips for screwing people over" feel like a genre of story I've heard Americans tell. They're like, *almost* AITA posts? The one that really sticks out to me as evidence of a lower-trust society is the trucker one—I don't think American weigh stations try to cheat truckers like that. But if they did, there'd be tons of people online taking the side of the trucker in that scenario.
The other "life advice" post strikes me as not very out of place in certain American subcultures—though the advice would be framed more tactfully.
The story character that I would consider "Chinese Robin Hood" is named Afanti, and his thing is tricking rich people and making fools out of them. I found it interesting that instead of beating people physically, he outsmarted them. I feel like in China, there is an attitude of, "If you're stupid enough to be tricked, you deserve to be tricked." People don't realize how pro-social the west is!