Part of me feels that during a crisis is not a time to litigate claims for social status. Part of me feels like the current crisis is so sui generis that there actually is social purpose in saying “Your priors from January predict X > Y based on formal expertise or authority.”
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And on the third hand, for the purpose of achieving the unprecedented amount of coordination required to agree to cooperate against the only real enemy and to be able to live with each other in the aftermath, we might want to let some things slide.
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And so we’re in this weird superposition of states where the game that actually matters is cooperative PVE but there’s a tiny bit of productive and close to zero sum social PVP in a sea of unproductive PVP.
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“A WoW metaphor?” If a WoW guild was distributing masks in February and your local health department was not then put their clerics in charge of DPSing the coronavirus. I am much more serious about this than the observation sounds.
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Did you see https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-pandemic/ … ? It made me so happy
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