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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Alice Wu

      I don’t know how to feel about this 🤔https://twitter.com/thatalicewu/status/1330287079708893184 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

      Alice WuVerified account @thatalicewu
      A note from abroad: Realizing now that I've been 5 days out of US that many folks back home don't realize how other countries might be living with the 'Rona. Here is what it was like to come to Taiwan. I think we could maybe learn a coupla things... /1 #COVID
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      To be clear, I mean that literally. I have no positive or negative reaction or mixed feelings. This thread is like reading a weather report from another place. Ok they have different weather there.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      In a way weather is a good analogy. Governance systems are like natural phenomena. Perhaps some are just more dangerous than others. Maybe living in a western liberal democracy is like living in an earthquake or hurricane zone. You get some nice views but you pay with risk.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      I’m wary of all monocausal simple answers like prompt government action, SARS/MERS experience, etc. Backtrack a couple of degrees from proximal causes and those simple answers turn into politics-complete (as in NP-complete) questions.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      Don’t want to let Western leaders off the hook, especially not Trump or BoJo, but it really is a full civilization stack A/B test here. It’s not path-dependent.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      It’s easy to see with hindsight what tactics worked. It’s not at all clear why different sets of tactical options were available in different countries. And it’s not clear what price was paid over preceding decades to make those options available.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      I’ve had a couple of people die in my friends/family circle and that did get to me, but I’m not going to pretend I viscerally feel numbers at the 300k scale like some bodhisattva tuned in to mass suffering. At that level lines like “even one death is too many” is just posturing.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Gordon Mohr ꧁ 👁 👁꧂

      I’m seeing the same tendency to jump to easy conclusions that we saw after 9/11. I think of this tweet often. It’s not regular derp it’s catastrophe retcon derp.https://twitter.com/gojomo/status/800828383990935552?s=21 …

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      Gordon Mohr ꧁ 👁 👁꧂ @gojomo
      Recent Events Initially Surprised Me To The Core, But Upon Further Reflection I Realize They Just Prove I've Been Right All Along
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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      A lot of people have gotten a lot more certain about what they already believed. I’ve only gotten systematically more doubtful. This is too complex to be simple validation for anything. It might confirm/disconfirm isolated specific beliefs but not entire world views.

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 21
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          If you’ve had an entire worldview get stronger, you’re probably not paying enough attention to things. The world did not get simpler in the last year. It got more complex.

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