... days everybody went Fucking Nuts. It's hard to describe to people who didn't see it--and maybe to those who were part of the madness. 2/
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Replying to @eigenrobot
My high school did a great job covering past USG abuses in times of crisis--the Cambodia war, internment camps, COINTELPRO, etc. And so 3/
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when the towers went down on live TV and the flags came out--even my cynical friends did things like writing fucking *American flag poems*--
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I fell into a kind of counter-paranoia about the executive taking advantage of the social madness to do all sorts of terrible things. 5/
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I'm not sure whether today's paranoia is quite the same; in particular it's partisan, and dissent or critique doesn't seem to lead to /6
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lead to brutal social ostracism like it did in 01. But I think one important lesson is to take a deep breath and reflect, frequently, on /7
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one's fear, and to consider the proportionality and utility of that fear. Because otherwise you end up doing really stupid shit. /thread
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it's hard to evaluate expected utility when there are potential outcomes on the tails that are really, really bad
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it's why people have a hard time thinking about natural disasters
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P(the government collapses) just crossed the threshold of not rounding to zero for a lot of people and they can't deal
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no disagreement and I like this formulation! I had meant only to appeal to sangfroid, not to critique any specific U calculation
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