Overthinking Everything

Overthinking Everything

How to be weird

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David R. MacIver
Apr 25, 2021
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Hi everyone,

Bryan Caplan has an interesting piece, Being Normal. In it he defines the “principle of normality”:

A normal person says what others say, but does what others do.

This seems essentially right to me. It’s wrong in some crucial ways, but even given that it’s a good slogan.

Bryan is mostly interested in the “say what others say” vs “do what other…

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