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Humans do acausal coordination all the time
Adam Selker3y20

If the counts weren't public until after voting were closed, do you think people would vote significantly differently?

My instinct says they wouldn't.

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Moloch Hasn’t Won
Adam Selker3y30

What was this image?

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Testing PaLM prompts on GPT3
Adam Selker3y10

Insufficient data for meaningful answer

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Judge Overturns Transportation Mask Mandate
Adam Selker3y30

Nothing?

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Judge Overturns Transportation Mask Mandate
Adam Selker3y30

I don't think these examples are quite security theater.  A good bike lock makes your bike harder to steal; a "theatrical" bike lock would mostly just make it look harder to steal.  Even a skinny cable lock, the sort you can cut with fingernail clippers, keeps it from being stolen by passers-by who don't have fingernail clippers.

 

(Of course, the same argument applies to the TSA, so maybe I'm just wrong about what "security theater" means.)

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Edge cases don't invalidate the rule
Adam Selker3y20

Exceptions (which I think is what you mean by edge cases) DO indicate that a rule is incomplete or not universal.

Yes!  But rules don't have to be complete or universal to be acceptable.

Rules about people should be more formally correct than is implied by this post.

I think I see what you're getting at.  My instinct kinda runs the other way, though: if people don't fit neatly into categories (and you care about the edge cases), it might be better to throw out the rule entirely rather than formalize it and categorize those edge cases.  Could you give an example of where formalizing would be helpful?

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Naming the Nameless
Adam Selker3y61

Could you expand on this?  What are the fnords?

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Jetlag, Nausea, and Diarrhea are Largely Optional
Adam Selker3y10

How do you avoid bug bites?

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Six economics misconceptions of mine which I've resolved over the last few years
Adam Selker4y10

That makes sense.  I guess I'm mostly reacting to the last sentence, which adds a moral aspect.

(I'm also not 100% sure how much the last sentence is a joke, or deliberate exaggeration?)

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Six economics misconceptions of mine which I've resolved over the last few years
Adam Selker4y10

lest we see anyone waver in their moral resolution to internalize most externalities.

 

If I find out that internalizing externalities is harmful, I don't want to do it!  It might be harmful to moralize this, in case it makes it harder to change our minds?

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