This is a motivated reading/projection. I think the ease of habit formation when the rules are simpler (“wear masks in public” as opposed to complex if-then-else rules about outdoor/indoor/crowded/not crowded) explain thus better than “obedience” for most people https://twitter.com/ConnerHabib/status/1295335690717278211 …
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I stop at stop signs when driving even when streets are empty. I signal when I turn even if nobody is behind me. Lazy-efficient low-cognitive-effort habit formation, not sheep-like obedience. Thinking/decision-making costs more than adopting a worst-case defensive habit.
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A lot of Americans in particular have serious issues and knee-jerk reactions about this stuff. Any uniformity and conformity at all must be craven submission to authoritarians. All rules must either serve you by an OCD algorithm of a million if-then clauses or King George wins
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I hate wearing masks, so my solution is to simply not go out much. When I do, when I get a chance I take it off for a stretch in an uncrowded outdoor space sometimes. The Kolmogorov complexity of my algorithm is not as minimal as “always mask outside home” but it’s close.
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And no, litigation is not the answerhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1295406092063711232?s=21 …
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Shocking but true: collective responsibility with some free-riding is nearly always net cheaper than individual responsibility plus litigiousness. Only really weird environments with extreme variety in contexts flips the equilibrium.
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Trust your neighbors. Give them the benefit of doubt sometimes where nobody has all the data and your gut points elsewhere. Gut feelings are not gospel.
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The Amazon “disagree but commit” principle is the bedrock of real high trust cooperation and high leverage collective action. A fetish for radical and radically suspicious individualism is a very, very expensive preference.
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This is why smart libertarians repeatedly get asses handed to them by high-trust, high mutual-benefit-of-doubt soft collectivists on both right and left who don’t feel an acute need to stand apart from crowd 110% of the time. Blending into crowd for 5 minutes isn’t death sentence
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Of course, 90% of American libertarians are actually closet authoritarian-collectivist sheeple vigorously overcompensating for inability to actually stand out as individuals while worshipping King Koch and chanting the holy word of St. Ayn while shamefacedly applying for PPP
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Demanding obedience to the viewpoint in the replies while accusing everybody who masks broadly instead of learning a finicky algorithm of unthinking “obedience”
Some sort of authoritarian projection/overcompensation?