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Cowardice is like blackmail: whatever benefits you accrue crumble the moment you grow a spine; you don't have to be owned for long before you're owned forever.
The minimum buy-in for being a decent person and anything better than a worse-than-useless friend is the capacity to say "I'm waiting to see if this can be substantiated."https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121340611477557248?s=12 …
Frankly, we need to be doing much better than we're doing now, because deep fakes are about to utterly shatter an already tenuous shared reality. Winter Is F***ing Coming and we're arbitrating compensation for the sheep our dragons are eating
By the way, people can get cornered by growing an audience while saying *only* unobjectionable stuff — this is why I suggest "front-loading" courage. I think I've got a wider range than most bc I'm already known to assert speculative, controversial & politically homeless things
One lesson I've learned from Twitter: I never believe anything bad about anyone famous until the evidence is overwhelming. The attention (= money for reporters) you can get by telling lies about someone famous is just too tempting.
Related: I no longer believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. The fact that people consistently say x about some famous person means no more than that there are a lot of people who want to hear it.
Unfortunately it's a rule of the sacred/taboo game that you show your purity by by enforcement that is *obviously unthinking*. You wouldn't want to be seen as one who considers negotiation with evil. The very thoughtlessness shows you are reliable.
I got the idea of the importance of appearing not to even consider taboo ideas from this @PTetlock paper.
http://tomstafford.staff.shef.ac.uk/docs/tetlock03.pdf …
@jmrphy your interview with Nina Power, (about how her critics declare they have not read her) reminded me of this.
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