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 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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i have people on my facebook saying things like "my life is hijacked because people won't follow simple rules" and i'm like, no, everyone is making huge sacrifices here
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In a way knee-jerk opposition to government mandates is also a low-cognitive-cost defense against government authoritarian overreach. I believe having a country and culture with such a strategy is a positive for the world.
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I think about this a lot, in almost all personal decision making processes it's pretty easy to get 80% of the benefits for 20% of the effort--when eking out the incremental gains becomes a chore then stop! but most people don't, they argue about it.
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And on the flip side, if you're enjoying eking out the incremental gains then it's probably something really important or something you really like doing, so time well spent! That's my algorithm.
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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?