tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post8539156994603491983..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Nice guys finish lastSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-82190686186599949872012-07-10T19:12:53.955-04:002012-07-10T19:12:53.955-04:00Actually that myth reflects naïveté and ignorance ...Actually that myth reflects naïveté and ignorance of history. The vulgar bourgeois thing is to know perfectly well that it is all about social status and connections -- and to feel quite superior about understanding the "truth" rather than being distracted by abstract ideals. France has this type of vulgarity in abundance, and frankly most of America -- at least on the coasts -- is Sethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87152063710481801332012-07-10T19:05:18.953-04:002012-07-10T19:05:18.953-04:00That disingenuous last-minute merge technique is h...That disingenuous last-minute merge technique is hardly unique to the FDR drive. As full of a-holes as NYC is, it still falls short of a monopoly on cheap tricks and shallow self-regard. 'Class' in the not-strictly-pecuniary sense of the word is sadly very rare.Sethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-79825359090690535052012-07-09T12:56:57.793-04:002012-07-09T12:56:57.793-04:00Interesting post. According to some reporting, 1% ...Interesting post. According to some reporting, 1% of the population are psychopaths, where as 4% of the CEOs are psychopaths. While that is an elevated number, it still leaves 96% of them as non-psychopaths. From the psychopaths that I met in real life, they were all failures in life(including their financial status). I think the Psychopathic CEO might be a tiny minority of the psychopath reservoir_dogsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-57222494325278929912012-07-08T21:48:06.434-04:002012-07-08T21:48:06.434-04:00And when an Irishman immigrates to Australia he...And when an Irishman immigrates to Australia he's more like to develop skin cancer than the natives. It's "genetic".MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-24508912876576898162012-07-08T16:42:32.459-04:002012-07-08T16:42:32.459-04:00Yes, the author is completely clueless about genet...Yes, the author is completely clueless about genetic/environmental breakdown/confounds.<br /><br /><br />That doesn't detract from the specific results correlating empathy levels and social class, although the causality is still in question.steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-51656259590861788292012-07-08T16:07:31.119-04:002012-07-08T16:07:31.119-04:00Liberty, equality, fraternity? ;-)Liberty, equality, fraternity? ;-)LondonYoungnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-15498209321773140862012-07-08T16:05:40.113-04:002012-07-08T16:05:40.113-04:00The article even explicitly mentions the phrase &q...The article even explicitly mentions the phrase "chicken and the egg" but dances around the fact that intelligence could be the driver of income. <br /><br /><br />"Public-health research has long shown that poverty can have devastating effects on the brain. At 3 years old, poor kids have vocabularies that are three times smaller than their better-off peers. Their memories do not Miley Cyraxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-36719529916505338332012-07-08T15:43:58.084-04:002012-07-08T15:43:58.084-04:00America is a vulgar bourgeois country with a still...America is a vulgar bourgeois country with a still intact myth that who your parents are doesn't matter. The French have never had that.MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-15017456746147115202012-07-08T15:33:03.894-04:002012-07-08T15:33:03.894-04:00Both rich and poor have self serving biases.Both rich and poor have self serving biases.MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-31302648375618642892012-07-08T09:41:57.393-04:002012-07-08T09:41:57.393-04:00It would be interesting to hear more about non-US ...It would be interesting to hear more about non-US perspective on wealth inequality - the French seem to be in the midst of such a debate right now ... I get the impression the U.S. has turned quite inwards on this topic.<br />This article (admittedly from NY Magazine) even has a passage about Manhattan's FDR traffic which cannot be properly understood without first-hand Manhattanite knowledgeLondonYoungnoreply@blogger.com