Two important kinds of wrongness: -a claim escaping its low-rigor environment and being presented in a high-rigor environment (counseling talk —> science paper) -a claim escaping its high-rigor environment and being presented in a low-rigor environment (quantum woo)
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but I could equally well label this: “two important kinds of creativity” with different examples
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one example: cooking hacks videos made for passive consumption as entertainment, but then people make videos of trying to actually do the hacks, transferring it to a more rigorous context, and millions of people are entertained by resulting fiascos
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Extraordinary Banana Retweeted NYT Health
epistemic fiascos are also highly entertaining - so entertaining that you start to wonder if they’ve stripped the context off of a suspicious claim and made it global on purpose to make you clickhttps://twitter.com/nythealth/status/1208754010422939650?s=21 …
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