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No the two cases are not comparable. If you think they are you haven’t paid enough attention to either.
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Thanks. Excellent piece
So many of us have been yelling the same - glad you have shone light.
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Replying to @sarahfrier
Who cuts off the WHO at the right time? Why didn’t they back in Jan/Feb? Where does Twitter’s responsibility end? How will we ever know if the WHO is wrong (via this mechanism, I mean)
twitter.com/a_r_j_u_n_e/st
Major news outlet reporting highlighted here.
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Replying to @rjunkapoor and @sarahfrier
Cut off Bolsonaro, sure. Will they also censor China?
I like the toy economic model at the bottom. Being right is costly for an expert & should be. Also:
There's no cost to a non expert in being wrong.
Sensitivity & specificity is a better frame than right/wrong.
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There will be people who point out the failures of an authority figure & tell you that all authority fails similarly. Having gained your trust, they'll tell you other things that you normally wouldn't believe. This is called "redpilling" & it's the main way people get radicalized
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We could all benefit from a few more maybes and I-don’t-knows. Our discomfort with indeterminacy is problematic.




