{"id":196,"date":"2008-11-22T21:57:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T04:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/196"},"modified":"2008-11-22T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T04:57:18","slug":"the-observer-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2008\/11\/22\/the-observer-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"the observer effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be skeptical, but Soros&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/22113\">reflexivity<\/a> argument is elegant. <\/p>\n<p>And this is delightful dishing of the &#8220;oh-no-he-didn&#8217;t&#8221; variety:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alan Greenspan was a past master of manipulation with his Delphic utterances, but instead of acknowledging what he was doing he pretended that he was merely a passive observer of the facts. Reflexivity remained a state secret. That is why the super-bubble could develop so far during his tenure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What happens when the referee enjoys the game so much he stops making calls to prolong it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be skeptical, but Soros&#8217; reflexivity argument is elegant. And this is delightful dishing of the &#8220;oh-no-he-didn&#8217;t&#8221; variety: Alan Greenspan was a past master of manipulation with his Delphic utterances, but instead of acknowledging what he was doing he pretended that he was merely a passive observer of the facts. Reflexivity remained a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}