The background is that a couple kids were hugging eachother, crying uncontrollably, and a worker was ordered to separate them. He noped out and blew the whistle.
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Yeah, that does sound like a situation where an extremely sensible rule like “No touching other detainees” would have a bad consequence, but if you’re talking about that outside the context of the rule and its overall effects, you’re missing the big picture.
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My guess is that they’d prefer the story you’re talking about to a story about kids getting molested and their guards doing nothing. Given the inevitability of complaints, it’s good to optimize for relatively trivial ones.
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Yeah, read the rest of the thread. Once again, I'm shown Twitter is not *accidentally* an anger amplification engine. These are its failure modes.
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I did. It’s important to think in terms of base rates and amplification, ie what headlines would you expect from a reasonable policy, applied at scale, given adversarial media coverage. It’s a crucial element of media literacy in the current year.
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At the end of that thread, I'm like, you know, somebody mentioned this might have been an overextension of a "no touching" policy. And that's not impossible.
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Yes—but you mostly dwelled on your emotional response to the headline you were exposed to. That’s unhealthy: your first response should always be to ask for the most benign/boring explanation for a headline.
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The way the media work today is that people construct the most misleading/upsetting possible narrative without technically making factual errors. You know this is true in your field; time to act as if it’s just generally true.
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