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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“However, we have material updates for you which have happened in the last weeks/days and which you have not incorporated into your view of the world yet. The decisions you make today impact the curve in weeks. Accordingly, yes, need to radically tinker with status weightings.”
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And atop this will be a lot of people being petty, or writing clickbait to surf the dopamine wave, or just bored while stuck at home and eager to engage in twitter beefing. And that isn’t great.
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But it is pretty apparent by this point that some processes/institutions/indicia of authority which were quite trusted in December have not performed up to their rep and that some organizations who one would not expect to display cutting edge epidemic management factually do.
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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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Replying to @patio11
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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Replying to @kevinakwok
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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And it should care much more than it appears to on “What is the likelihood that being seen as oppositional to anyone in the guild of journalism right now will cause a sympathetic rejection of claims for 48+ hours by prestige media outlets who can get things onto gov’t agendas.”
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Replying to @patio11
Oh interesting. I agree with this. But don’t even think going cia journalism is highest leverage right now
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