one of my special frustrations are people who believe institutions know best and if you are not getting their approval that you must be bad in some way. There's no better way to show complete lack of understanding of the actual work than by defaulting to institutional authority.
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I do actually think this is goofy RE you but the IRB stuff is a direct outgrowth of like Nazi experimentation or the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: that is, it’s intended to restrain institutions and protect individuals when there is a knowledge/power imbalance or unclear risk
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i consider poor attempts to do good nearly as bad as actual attempts to do bad
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Reminds me of the “Aggressively Conventional” quadrant in this essay: paulgraham.com/conformism.html
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Totes agree.
I assume you've got gelt. I haven't. But I've flown small planes. Lived in 5 star Vegas hotels for months ar a time. Drive the countries of Jordan and the UAE. Kinna sorta snuck into Syria. Lived in Israel, South Africa, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Portugal, Mexico...
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And I did things wilder and crazier than most people would imagine.
In general humans have been wonderful (some guns, knives, fights aside) but the fuckin SYSTEMS!They are completely anti-human. The systems multiply humanity for the longevity of the species, and are anti-human.
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What about institutions filled with scientists and experts making policy recommendations on issues they’ve spent their entire careers studying (even when they contradict your friends YouTube video)
