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Isn't all of this evident for someone who pays attention on X? I don't think I saw an original argument or insight here.

As for Chauvin and Floyd, that claim looks like Gell-Mann amnesia to me. It's not clear to me that Chauvin made any difference: Floyd had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system and we don't have the counterfactual - he could easily have died in the back of the police car.

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I don't know, this is coming awfully close to veneration.

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“I am not the sort of writer who likes to *imply* his point.” A priceless sentence!

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Thanks for the reading recommendation Bryan. Fortunately Huemer and the rest of the world face immense competition from other authors. There is currently a deluge of recommended reading. Knowing who to read next is now more important than ever. Unfortunately Huemer's posts regarding Trump over the past few months make me somewhat untrustworthy of him. Caplan on the other hand didn't make any mistakes blogging about Trump during the election. One point Bryan. I still trust Bryan Caplan and will continue to read his work, but I'm skeptical of some of his reading recommendations. Huemer has fallen a notch or two in my pile of things to read next. Sorry for the poor review, but I'm just here to tell the truth. Shall I get into your recommendation to read Hanania or should I save that for another time?

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I feel the same way. Huemer's insufficiently balanced anti-Trump stuff was off-putting.

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I found Huemer through Caplan, and now read much more Huemer than Caplan. Both, like all human beings, have their flaws, but are also great. Huemer rarely misses, and that's hard to find for someone who produces as much output as he does.

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For someone who is probably not as well read as many of your subscribers I found this essay quite as worthwhile and enlightening as I did the comments.

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"The IPCC projects that an excess 250,000 people will die annually worldwide." I hope that Michael goes on to point out all the lives that are SAVED by warming and by more CO2. If not, that's a serious lack. Overall, it looks highly likely that warming & more CO2 will save lives.

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Love Huemer. Still prefer David Schmidtz.

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My expectation is that Tyler will be correct. This book is likely just preaching to the choir. How many progressives will pick up a book that challenges their world view? I'm not saying that conservatives, libertarians, populists, or anyone else would but this book probably won't reach it's intended audience. Maybe it can make non-progressives better debaters.

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I'm going to challenge my left-leaning family members to read this book in exchange for reading one of their choosing. I think they will be more receptive to this style of book than an explicitly right-wing takedown of progressive ideology.

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