Interesting analogy. Veil of motivated definition: “You define human rights, I decide who counts as human” “You define climate action, I decide when to act” Often the motivated reasoning shows up as a rate-limit. Rate of emancipation, rate of Covid testing, rate of emissionshttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/1274767590322290692 …
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Iron law suggests even when an institution is sincerely committed to a belief, it cannot commit to acting on that belief at a rate higher than it can sustain without damage to itself. Which is rational. Why act to enable a future that you’ll die creating? https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html …
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The market is more interesting than the White House. It’s among the fastest acting institutions ever created... once it gets the memo. The problem is it tends to get the memo only when actual financial damage starts to accrue. And it defends its rate limits the most strongly.
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