Comments on: Santa: Naughty Or Nice?

By: Linkage is Good for You: Christmas Weekend Hangover Edition | In Mala Fide

Linkage is Good for You: Christmas Weekend Hangover Edition | In Mala Fide — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:32:26 +0000

[...] Robin Hanson – “Santa: Naughty or Nice?” [...]

By: jayden sheedy

jayden sheedy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:32:26 +0000

dear santa am i on your nice list from jayden sheedy1

By: Jackson

Jackson — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:59:13 +0000

You’ll see here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi-UCUL441Q
at around 04:18 how Superman helped to defeat the KKK. Just imagine if he had an iPhone and went around the world collecting data for Goodguide http://www.goodguide.com/about/mobile

By: Christmas With Hitchens And Hanson « Modeled Behavior

Christmas With Hitchens And Hanson « Modeled Behavior — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:55:35 +0000

[...] Of course the child would not receive the standard fairy tale explanation, but rather a realist analysis of what it would mean if a man could deliver all those toys in one night, and, given that a man can [...]

By: God jul og godt nyttår « Tankeløst plukk

God jul og godt nyttår « Tankeløst plukk — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:21:27 +0000

[...] Her er litt lesestoff for julen – Hvor snill er egentlig julenissen? Robin Hanson har noen tanker. [...]

By: morgan

morgan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:25:47 +0000

hi santa this is what i wan;t for cristmas i wan’t my famaliy to have the best crist mas ever and the world to and this is something elis i what i wan’t for cristmas a gitar and a dsi please

By: mjgeddes

mjgeddes — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:02:31 +0000

Christmas message from SAI.

SAI_2100: ‘You’d better watch out, you’d better think twice, I’m going to find out whose been naughty and nice…’

By: Dave Hedengren

Dave Hedengren — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:55:19 +0000

I for one think Santa is real. It’s just that there are only two or three nice children in the world. The parents of all other children just buy presents for their kids and lie saying Santa put them on the nice list.

I’ve never met a truly nice kid but I assume with billions of kids there must be 2 or 3 nice ones.

By: ERIC

ERIC — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:56:06 +0000

Great, simple description of what could enable the *ultimate* totalitarian regime! How bad would it be? I guess it depends on what the rules are. Be “nice” and get everything you want. Sounds like “heaven” to me!

Funny to ponder the nanotechnology implications as well WRT Santa.

It is also interesting to note that Santa could be much, much, more. Instead the bar was set quite low for him. Good post!

By: tgrass

tgrass — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:45:35 +0000

kebko,

As an atheist parent who has been unable to convince my five year old son there isn’t a god (he’s gone Pascal’s wager on me), I thank you for providing the bright side to santa.