This one is my favourite

I’ll do €200. Possibly, if you’re willing to sell both of the paintings, you might be able to coordinate me and the other bidder and raise double the amount.

I think gift cards are becoming a generally socially accepted way of accomplishing ~the same

Let’s do $150

No you’re right the salary should be closer to $10 mln

To contribute to a field you need to ~understand (part of) the previous results in that field . As time passes and results accumulate, especially in mathematics, it is increasingly unlikely for a non professional to have the needed prerequisites to even understand an open problem

The difference is the equity index fund is rebalanced to adjust to changes in relative market cap while a MBS with a certain percentage of exposure to subprime loans would not have changed its exposure as credit conditions (hence price) deteriorated

History I can understand what you’re saying, as I do read some history papers. But I have a hobbyist interest in economics and I can have difficulty understanding many papers, where I take understanding to mean the feeling i have when I do (certain) mathematics

Would you say that it is possible for a hobbyist to do interesting and hard work in a “non primitive” field, for example in mathematics?

The fact that an hobbyist generalist can get to expert level in a field is just an indiction of the primitive state of that field.

“There is no use pretending our healthcare system isn’t usually bad” while I assume he wanted to say not to base your claim on the experience of one person which might not be representative

And you’re simply a fascist

Wealth “is” gdp not gpd per hour worked. Due to diminishing marginal returns, some people in certain countries might work less hours exactly because they’re productivity for the marginal hour is low. You cannot assume that if I create 50 widgets in five hours, I will do 100 in ten hours.

And I would argue that the firebombing campaign + atomic bombs had an (significant) impact on the surrender decision by the imperial supreme council and the emperor

ChatGPT is available worldwide

IMO the range is anything from:
- civilisation [and thus macro] destroying menace
- colossal but harmless waste of resources slowly understood to be such
- one off boost to automation with range of fallout for labour market
- knowledge acquisition permanently faster