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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The problem is that people have elected griefers.
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this is an excellent tweet
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I’m skeptical that even an event of this magnitude will cause anyone to update their priors. The same people will likely still say “X failed because it was always bad and this crisis just exposed the badness” and “X failed because it was underfunded and underpowered” as before.
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And I confess: My priors have largely been confirmed by this crisis. Although I will say I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how swift and nimble private industry has been in closing gaps in our supply chain (especially for PPE) over the past few weeks.
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Status weighings that no longer are optimal and are the key bottleneck must be rapidly adjusted in the face of this novel situation. Our status updating system is also suboptimal but you quickly hit the maximum recursion going down that rabbit hole
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Loving the WoW metaphor
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