You know that line about judging people by their actions rather than their words? What about people whose only non-trivial output is words? (assume their actions are boringly uncontroversial, like say living basic middle class life funded by job at paper factory) Here’s a way.
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Almost always when academics study things that can go wrong, those are things that mainly go wrong to other people, not especially us. Should we stop studying such things, because we are not the folks at max risk?
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This is not generally true. Such risks are not attendant on say questions of studying supernovas or comparing battery material performance. Where this is true, steps can be taken in proportion to the moral hazard. See my thread linked several tweets above where I was tagged in
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only cops may study the danger to police from the general public theyre the only ones with skin in the game
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see my thread, I actually consider that question. I'm not going to repeat myself.
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What about the risk that he is not wrong, but chooses not to write about it because people might get mad at him? He'd get the benefits of peace of mind but the consequences will be suffered by other people. Sounds like you give a special ethical privilege to inaction.
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If you believe a bad take can have terrible consequences, you must accept that not publishing a good take can have consequences too. Especially if it's a contrarian take that is unlikely to be made by other people.
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Hear, hear.
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