[FRIAM] Strawman/Steelman

[David Eric Smith]

Your distillations of the American Zeitgeist are awfully good, Marcus.  

Eric


> On Feb 2, 2021, at 12:25 PM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
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> EricS writes:
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> < I have so often in these emails wished I had an excuse to say what a high and specific opinion I have of Warren.  I view her as a designer, of institutions, regulatory paradigms, etc.  It is only in certain concrete areas where a long career has built a highly specialized expertise, but it is enough that it is perfect she was the one to design the CFPB.  >
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> It is hard to take discussions about mechanisms and paradigms very seriously looking at a country that significantly just wants to burn everything down.   The larger culture war is about whether we will have the possibility of design and experiment.   Like in any experiment, unanticipated consequences can occur. Beliefs may be falsified along the way.  Coherent design can't occur if every citizen  claims to be an expert designer and expects their representatives not to plan or negotiate, but merely reactively repeat their raw frustrations and urges at louder and louder volume.  That is in effect an anti-design value system.
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> Marcus
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