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• Proper Dave:

  "Robin, You are making a big assertion here. The trusts..."

• Jess Riedel:

  "To join Doug S. and add another counter-example: Do you..."

• JenniferRM:

  "I wonder if there is a geographic bias operating here?..."

• John:

  "I can't answer for Dre, but personally, while I'm not..."

• Doug S.:

  "Are you really indifferent between the world coming to an..."

• Doug S.:

  "Some interesting trivia: At his richest, John D. Rockefeller had..."

• Karl Smith:

  "This story seems wrong to me, but I can't work..."

• Dre:

  "As a non-economist, this seems like a reducto ad absurdum..."

• anon:

  "Very good pont. An ancestor can influence the future as..."

• Vladimir M.:

  "Phil:

  As a separate issue, I wonder what would have happened

  ..."

• Vladimir M.:

  "Robin Hanson:

  A fascinating alternate history might start from a year

  ..."

• Steven Schreiber:

  "I think the other commenters are right: deferring to the..."

• CraigM:

  "Let's look at this simplistically. The issue seems to be..."

• TGGP:

  "I don't think your "pressure" argument really works here. I..."

• Stephen R. Diamond:

  "

  We instead prefer a legal system with lots of specific

  ..."

• cournot:

  "You may also be using the wrong deflators. If you..."

• Adam Ozimek:

  "It seems to me that the common sense presumption should..."

• Phil:

  ">"Not obvious we see any overall bias in such trades."..."

• Paul Hewitt:

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  "as usually estimated, the benefits of deferring greatly to distant

  ..."

• Robin Hanson:

  "Phil, the dead will trade-off the mistakes from overly specific..."

• Carl Shulman:

  "Robin, Great post. Robert, Good catch."

• Kenneth Switala:

  "The presidential history parts of this article were interesting, but..."

• Doug S.:

  "Indeed. Wouldn't throwing *cash* through our magic multiplier hole just..."

• Doug S.:

  "If they don't invest it, then don't they give it..."

• jsalvatier:

  "Addendum: The most obvious real mechanism someone could have in..."