Jeff Maurer
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Jeff Maurer is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 28, 2022 and September 12, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Industry insider Jeff Maurer explains Why “Gutfeld” Is The Highest-Rated Political Comedy Show On Television”; “Jeff Maurer for Harris”. It most often appears alongside California, Nate Silver, Ozy.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: December 28, 2022
- Last seen: September 12, 2024
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- Nate Silver (2 shared issues)
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- Ozy (2 shared issues)
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- Richard Hanania (2 shared issues)
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- Steve Sailer (2 shared issues)
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- Substack (2 shared issues)
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- Trump (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- 2C-B (1 shared issues)
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- 48: Bean (1 shared issues)
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- @AliceFromQueens (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
52: The highest-rated political comedy show on TV, with four times as many viewers as The Daily Show, is Gutfeld!, a right-wing Fox production I never heard of until now. Industry insider Jeff Maurer explains Why “Gutfeld” Is The Highest-Rated Political Comedy Show On Television (It’s Not Because It’s Good). Short answer: it produces a lot of episodes, mostly by diluting the (hard to produce) comedy with a lot of (easy to produce) panels, then handles the panels well enough that viewers don’t feel ripped off. Also: “Gutfeld! certainly doesn’t do anything to dispel my belief that the Republican Party is intellectually brain dead” (h/t Ne0liberal)
45: Debating which candidate has better policies seems so almost comical these days - isn’t everyone already sure which candidate is an ontologically-evil commie Nazi, and which is a bold hero riding in to save the Union? Still, a few people have taken on this thankless task, most notably Richard Hanania for Trump and Jeff Maurer for Harris. The most compelling pro-Trump argument is that Harris endorses some utterly idiotic economic policies (eg price controls) that could make everyone poorer and (if doubled down upon) knock the US into corrupt perma-stagnation like the worse parts of Europe, and these are so comically bad that they should override Harris’ advantages in other areas. But Maurer argues that even sticking to economics (Trump’s relatively non-crazy area), once you add up Trump’s proposed tariffs, threats to Fed independence, and NIMBYism he doesn’t look any better than Harris here - and then he loses on the non-economic and character issues. And Bentham’s Bulldog (pro-Harris) and Samuel Hammond (pro-Trump) make cases of their own within a more specifically EA framework around existential risks, etc.