This is insane thinking. The positive spin is that these nitwit's action through pure luck resulted in Sue making some friends. I also wrote about it to goad them to return. And to make fun of them for thinking that Trump is an anti-semite.

It is true that I think that Trump is only about 40% as bad as some of you do. And that I have admonished those who have opposed him to stick to stuff that is clear cut (as opposed to things like his recent relaxation of auto emission standards) as that increases the chances of achieving their goals. ( Suzzer's recent list of broken promises is a good example.) But 40% is still pretty bad is it not?

Trump's financial backer, computer science Ph.D. Robert Mercer being illogical:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...ump-presidency

Force what you want on people that don't want it isn't caring about people.

As as university math professor, pretty sure DS would find a pretty massive brick wall at any more sophisticated math course. Being a self proclaimed expert at silly little probability and logic puzzles doesn't translate over all that well, and there is an attitdue and discipline factor too.

This implies that people don't want health insurance, which implies that people don't want to be treated, they just want to die when they get sick. Lunacy.

Yeah, this would have been my guess as well. While, I suppose it's likely that he could be good at math, it doesn't sound like he actually is good at math. Pretty much all of his math-related posting is stuff that a smart 17 yo would know. And I'm not talking Terry Tao smart, I just mean like among the best math students at a large high school.

Those kids certainly have the potential to be good at math, but there is so much they don't know that I wouldn't consider them to be good at that point. I suppose that compared to the average American they're geniuses, but that's kind of a low bar. To most who post on here, it shouldn't be the least bit impressive.

An ounce of humility would make his posts a bit more readable and a bit less obnoxious.

I have to go back to this because it's just so crazy. You think the 8-year old with cancer is being FORCED to undergo chemotherapy against her will? You think the 62-year old that is still working but can't afford to go to the doctor is being FORCED to accept subsidies that help him buy health insurance? This is just so stupid.

people just want the FREEDOM to opt out of paying for it while they're healthy, and to opt in at a nice low price when they're sick.

Every Skalnsky post comes across as Dave either trying too hard to be deliberately contrarian or else trying to lecture to people. Honestly, if he just came in without the affectations and talked about politics in a sincere way it might be readable.

Also, I don't get why politics has to bear the brunt of all the "DUCY?" posts. Why not take it to SE or SMP or wherever.

Sure, I can understand that desire. Unfortunately this plan doesn't do that at all! The 30% surcharge for people who lacked continuous coverage will make it very difficult for uninsured people to reenter the market, thus encouraging even more death spirals and higher premiums for all.

All this talk of logic etc - fair enough, but a lot of the genuine concern comes from people who specialise in analysing human behaviour and on the history of how democracy has broken down in the past. Plenty of these people (eg Brian Klaas) are more than a bit worried right now.

Of course. But that's Obama's fault!

Logic is the epistemology of ACism.

You can be very logical and still arrive at some terrible results. Its the inability to accept this that is one of the flaws I often encounter in those very mathematically gifted.

on cnn today they showed a short interview with this average american lady working as a clerk at a gas station or smth, who voted for trump, and she said plainly the ideal situation would be that the government just covers all costs whenever anyone wants to go to their local doctor, and i totally 100% believed that that was her honest position on the matter. and then i thought about how, 100 years ago, people must have been frustrated with not being able to get the proper information out to voters, and how like, technologically they were limited in that ability, and they probably thought that if voters only had the technological ability to have access to information, they would be able to make correct decisions based on their wants and needs.

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A former state senator from NJ told me in addition to the 30% surcharge, if you drop coverage and start again, they can underwrite you, which means they can assign you to a higher risk pool since you are likely sick to begin with. So your new rate could be 2x to 5x+ higher!

Would this fall under being illogical or having a severe cognitive bias? I think there are a lot of people with 140 IQs out there who believe dumb things because of some kind of cognitive bias.

This actually results in costing you more money and in multiple different ways.

That's huge if true. Can somebody confirm/deny this?

havent followed much of the news last few days ad went to check trump twitter.
I thought I was on a fake account cause it looked like a tabloid page full of fox news videos and memes.
well nope,thats the right account

+inf this dude is a legitimate embarassment and contributes even less here than i do

and again, this

and you're so smart that you totally realized one of the cohorts was playing tongue-in-cheek with his response, the other one actually preferred to invoke a different form of suffering upon him

is your bird doing the typing again?

Republicans have proven this to be false.