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 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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I generally am view that on tail risk like this we should give large lenience to those who were wrong. But they in turn need to stop being defensive and adjust to the current reality. Those who refuse to deserve the ire
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I would recommend picking one’s battles because the feeling that one is being attacked can innoculate people against the truth, so only do it where necessary. Specifically, I think tech should probably care zero about media outlets irrelevant to policy circles.
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