1. n = 3, any takers for n = 4?
2. Betting odds for the Nobel Prize in literature, and the Harvard economics pool in the Nobel Prize.
3. Greece: scarier than I had thought, and this too.
4. Videos from The Economist’s Ideas Summit, including Martha Stewart, and also me.
5. Princeton bans its academics from handing over copyright to journal publishers.
6. The Ponzi scheme felon who blogs financial crises; one of his early works is here (pdf).
I assume Adonis would be the political pick, what with the Arab Spring and all? I don’t pay attention to poetry, unfortunately, but if that’s the case I’d give him even better odds.
Murakami will win it, but not this year. The judges will want more time to digest 1Q84.
Can I add one more to #3?
http://video.ft.com/v/1185437572001/Satyajit-Das-Greece-the-next-Lehman-
# 3. I’m beginning to think ‘imperialism’ really isn’t such a bad word.
Why should a country with a corrupt, incompetent government ruling over a bunch of corrupt, incompetent net consumers be able to get monetary and other relief and still insist on its precious national sovereignty? Shouldn’t places like Greece, Haiti, Kosovo, Afghanistan et al. have to let a net producing country run the place in exchange for all that money?
Isn’t that how we did things for thousands of years?
Look at it from the other direction, in today’s world would anyone want those nations to be states in their nation? Do you want Haiti as the 51st state?
You’re kidding, right? This is all prime real estate. With the administration of a Lord Cromer or even just a Steve Jobs, Haiti could be turned into a major tax farm in no time. You’d have to do something about all those icky brown people of course, but barbed wire was rather cheap last time I checked and for some of the less feral ones there might be something to do in domestic services or as a mascots for some kind of charity scam.
I bet China and Russia will do it and not bat an eye. And I bet France gets back in the old imperial habit as well. (Britain will be conquered by France.)
Meanwhile, all that opium in Afghanistan and stupid Americans still can’t figure out how to make that war pay for itself.
Where is the country without a corrupt, incompetent government?
Pleased to see the list of lists of lists (n=3) does include itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_lists_of_lists#Self-reference.3F
I like the comment: “This is an encyclopaedia, not a computer science problem”
Presumably if Godel were a Wikipedia editor, we would have a topic “List of things not in this list” with an infinitely long discussion page.
How about a List of all lists that do not contain themselves ?
1. I think you just did (ok, it’s pretty short).
3. Fascinating, makes me wonder what the Irish situation looks like by comparison.
List of lists of lists of lists:
1. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
2. joshua’s comment, 9/28/11 at 1:20 pm.
1. Is that the closest thing Wikipedia has to an Index? I wonder what % of wikipedia articles can be found within 2 or 3 clicks of that page.
Oh no, definitely not the closest thing
- there’s also the portal of portals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Portals
- and the index of indexes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Indexes
- and of course the complete index: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/A%E2%80%93Z_index
0. This list.
1. All lists that are not this list.
Princeton’s implementation of Open Access is a step in the right direction, along with Federal mandates that Federally-funded research must be accessible, and similar steps. The big journal publishers, however — who long since stopped being ‘servants of knowledge’ and are, in some cases, extremely profitable private copyright empires — will fight back, however. We must also recognize that the spread of open access for articles may make things like journal subscriptions and individual issues in hard copy more expensive. Could the publishers also (I’m just riffing here) try to make the citation infomation proprietary and copyrighted: as in : OK, the text of your article we published may be ‘open access’, but any citation of it IN OUR JOURNAL would require licensing? Hmmmmm…
For this to work, though, it is incumbent especially on secure and senior faculty (full professors, above all) to make use of Open Access venues, and to refuse their work to publishers who won’t work with Open Access policies. This runs against the gradients of cultural capital, which some publishers have cultivated, so it won’t be easy. “But I’m too important to publish in ‘Lesser Studies in Silly Discipline’, I only publish in the ‘Journal of Silly Discpline’”, many will say. There’s a tension between “I want my work in top journals” and “I want my work in top journals that respect Open Access”.
On Greece could they allow the Drachma to once again be legal tender and start printing it while still retaining the euro?
Nobody wants to talk about Armstrong?
4) I liked your closing remarks video. Must be hard to always be the friendly contrarian, but you do it so well. Reality checks are important. There is nothing wrong with New York or DC and I don’t like it when people get dissed for living / working there, but these cities are not representative of much of the country. Being back home in the Midwest for a little while reminds me of that important point. It’s not a place where I would wear my work t-shirt around, but it is a more familiar place to me than DC. Of course, like you said in the video: happy, content people are not the ones innovating. The frontier is kind of a crappy place to be…and yet, we are human and need a break from time to time. I will go back to my “real life” soon…more rested and grounded.
Tyler, many thanks for linking to my post on the Literature Prize betting. Most recent winners have home from the 15-25/1 spots, let’s see what happens this year…
On #2 does anyone else find it silly to send money to Harvard? I filled out their form…had to celebrate their “openness.” My (biased) votes are Bernanke, Reinhart, and Rogoff. The committee seems to have a taste for being feisty. Diamond deserved it but the timing was impeccable. I won’t give away my 2021 vote…for the profession that’s the far more important person. (btw I am not so egotistical / delusional that I wrote myself, but it is someone who made a big impression on me and I quote often.)
http://www.raikoth.net/lololol.html
oh tyler, there’s no such thing as 4..
i wrote an article once on how there are only three levels of recursion, infinity, etc..
D. Nigel Hayes:
I wish this blog would discuss Martin Armstrong, also. I saw him speak many years ago and was impressed by his prickly stage manner and his originality. He was often discussed on an economic talk show on popular radio here. Immediately from when he was in the courts those many years ago and ever since, he’s been dropped from discussion. Very sudden. And a little odd, to me.
Wikipedia does not look at him as a ponzi schem implementer,last I looked. His story is more like the law running wild. If this man is as clever as some of his predictions seem to show, perhaps we should pay more attention to him.
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