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And scripts often position themselves as breaks from *other* scripts. But they’re scripts nevertheless. If it can be parodied, it’s a script. Even if it’s too young to have acquired multiple generations. And if it’s a script, it’s distorting your view of civilizational risks.
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Being parodied and anomie are the 2 strong push-pull signals that can keep you ahead of maturing scripts. Though that’s no guarantee that your distortions will weaken. But being captured by scripts is a guarantee that your distortions *will* harden into judgmentalism.
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It would be interesting to actually model the portfolio effect somehow. If you had 100 people with say n entrepreneurs, m social workers, p investigative journalists, q frontline first respondents, r soldiers, s homeless people etc, what does the net civ risk profile look like?
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It’s hard to think of a societal role, however apparently lowly, that *doesn’t* contribute to the net risk reward function. There are no true NPCs.
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Even people who seem obviously beyond the pale, like people building uninsurable homes in floodplains/hurricane zones/fire boundaries and expecting bailouts post-disaster, are helping learn the global risk function. Though it’s admittedly hard to be sympathetic.
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Do you know in what ways *you* are building on a flood plain? Is for eg. all of academia a flood plain? Is making art and expecting Patreon/NFT income that different from building in a hurricane zone and expecting FEMA bailout? Super easy to rationalize your thing as prosocial.
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hmm, not sure this socializing risk idea maps to patronage that easily. In both cases there’s at least a sense of getting value in return for your investment. Speculative relationships to that value are not intrinsic to the exchange
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We also think we get return on our taxes I tend to the view that all loftier sentiments driving direct or indirect spending work on the same emotions. I don’t feel that differently about supporting an artist vs my tax dollars supporting a museum.
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not sure I understand the definition of risk being n the artist case. is it like because they aren’t choosing more productive/secure ways to spend their time?
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Something like that, esp on the trustie end. You might elevate our collective soul with some sublime art. Or you might just self-indulgently free-ride on others’ confused sentiments and loopholes in cronyist institutional grant programs, with a trust fund backstopping you.
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