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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You’re socializing the costs of your risk-taking. Taxpayer money vs patronage money is not that big a difference.
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And look at how easily people raise gofundmes for FEMA situations
FEMA is like the NEA for lifestyle design art
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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