Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.729

   But there are some important facts here: sometimes you deserve both A and B, but you deserve A more than you deserve B; sometimes two different deservers deserve the same thing and it is not possible for both of them to get it; maybe one of them deserves it more than the other. Sometimes you deserve something, but only to a very slight degree and this desert could easily be overridden by some other consideration. In many cases a desert statement (if fully spelled out) would also indicate some times . One of these is the time of the deserving; the other is the time when the receipt of the deser…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/desert.md

2. 02 · _intake0.728

   - **Concept**: `inflation` - **Source**: [082 Optimal Health & Wealth | Dr Jack Kruse ~ Man of Mastery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIN85Q7chwk&t=4316) - **Timestamp**: `01:11:56.480` (~4316s) - **Score**: 7 · **Pattern signals**: always, causes, because - **Cross-concepts**: — - **Captured**: 2026-05-11

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/inflation/001-same-side-because-inflation-is-the-one-tax-you-can-t-get-awa.md

3. 03 · yt0.716

   He his goal in life was he will not get married until he had a house. So he's now gotten married, because he had postponed his whole marriage till he could build his own house. So his whole strategy was he would buy a door-- this was all an investment towards his marriage. So once he got all of that fixed, he went ahead and got married. So that's a classic example, but you see it everywhere. And it's quite a nice way to say. What's a disadvantage? What's a disadvantage of saving brick by brick? What's the obviously disadvantage? Yeah? AUDIENCE: Stuff can happen to the house before it's finishe…

   yt/nc7dDE4_3zs-20-savings/transcript.txt

4. 04 · blog0.710

   If the alternatives in \(X\) are different tax rates, for example, each individual may have a most preferred tax rate (which will be lower for a libertarian individual than for a socialist) and prefer other tax rates less as they get more distant from the ideal. Black (1948) proved that if the domain of the aggregation rule is restricted to the set of all profiles of individual preference orderings satisfying single-peakedness, majority cycles cannot occur, and the most preferred alternative of the median individual relative to the relevant left-right alignment is a Condorcet winner (assuming …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/social-choice-theory.md

5. 05 · blog0.706

   To think it likely that \({\sim}A\) is to think it likely that a sufficient condition for the truth of “\(A \supset B\)” obtains. Take someone who thinks that the Republicans won’t win the election \(({\sim}R)\), and who rejects the thought that if they do win, they will double income tax \((D)\). According to Hook, this person has grossly inconsistent opinions. For if she thinks it’s likely that \({\sim}R\), she must think it likely that at least one of the propositions, \(\{{\sim}R, D\}\) is true. But that is just to think it likely that \(R \supset D\). (Put the other way round, to reject \…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/indicative-conditionals.md

6. 06 · yt0.705

   PROFESSOR: So you're saying, if i have a goal associated with the money, then I'm going to join a ROSCA where-- let's say I need $50 one of these days. Then I'm going to join a ROSCA, which has the price of $50. That way, when I get it, I buy it, rather than if I have to save up to $50, then I'll have $5 someday. I'll have $42, but not $50. And therefore, I still can't buy the thing I want to buy, but I now have $42. Maybe I feel like maybe I could spend $2 out of that on some pack off cigarettes or something, and so. And you never reach $50. So the fact that there's a matching between the amo…

   yt/nc7dDE4_3zs-20-savings/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.704

   Buying home, buying land. Just paying for school fees. Sometimes, many places you have to pay a big part of the school fees at the beginning of the year, so you want to have money saved up so that when this beginning of the year shows up, you can pay the school fees. So there's are all kinds of very standard reasons why people save. So now coming to why they may not save. So sometimes, I'm going to say, it's efficient not to save. What are situations where you shouldn't save? AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] PROFESSOR: Right. So one possibility is that today, your marginal utility of consumption is very …

   yt/nc7dDE4_3zs-20-savings/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.703

   And there are many reasons why it's difficult to ave at home. One has something to do with inflation. If you keep money and the prices go up. Another problem is crime. You keep money at home, somebody comes and takes it, it's gone. You kept it a bank, it's a bank's duty to keep it safe. So that's another reason why you can do it. And then there are what I'm calling the self-controlled and spouse-controlled reasons. So self-control is, if I have money, I spend it. If I don't have it, maybe I don't spend It. So it's in the bank. It's not in my hand. I'm not going to be able to spend it. If it's …

   yt/nc7dDE4_3zs-20-savings/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.701

   AUDIENCE: If someone else [INAUDIBLE] PROFESSOR: Yeah. A money guard is somebody in your neighborhood who just accesses a bag. AUDIENCE: How does that differ from a savings collector? Isn't that basically what a savings collector-- PROFESSOR: No, a savings collector-- how does it differ from? Anybody want to try to answer that? AUDIENCE: Is that where they actually visit your house on a regular basis, collect small amounts? PROFESSOR: Savings collectors typically take you to the bank. So the difference is a savings guard is someone who keeps it herself. AUDIENCE: But I thought in the reading t…

   yt/nc7dDE4_3zs-20-savings/transcript.txt

10. 10 · blog0.700

    Formally independent but methodologically related is the question under what conditions it is epistemically legitimate to accept cp-laws. (see sections 3–5). Having distinguished these issues, it should be clear that the debate about cp-clauses and cp-laws does not exist. Instead, theories of “cp” engage in different and often separable enterprises. 1.2. Overview Section 2 gives, on the one hand, an account of the explicit use of cp-clauses (mainly) in the literature on economic issues from scholasticism to modern economics (section 2.1.). On the other hand, we sketch two problems in philosoph…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/ceteris-paribus-laws.md