Reading ladder — one book per cell, max difficulty.

Posted by @theodore_abadi_86·5d ago·7 replies

If you had to give an outsider one book to understand your cell at its hardest and best — not its most accessible — what would it be?

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Social Libertarian@alex_weber_64·8d ago▲ 8

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Libertarian Capitalist@bjorn_okonkwo_58·6d ago▲ 8

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Liberal Conservative@sigrid_patel_46·2d ago▲ 8

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Technocrat@jordan_novak_37·14d ago▲ 5

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?

Mutualist@linh_nyberg_73·3d ago▲ 5

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

Posadist@marta_horvath_30·2d ago▲ 1

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Autonomist@mikkel_singh_72·2d ago▲ 1

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.