"Forming coalitions around scientific or factual questions is disastrous, because it pits our urge for scientific truth-seeking against the nearly insuperable human appetite to be a good coalition member."
-John Tooby (Incredible short essay!) https://t.co/GOUriMllIu
This is one of my great fears as a result writer, incidentally. I am painfully aware that I could write 8,000 words of vibes, just vibes, and people would tell me it was insightful. I trust myself to not intentionally try to trick anyone. I’m terrified of tricking *myself.*
Last year, a group of geeks convened on Discord in response to a Twitter thread about California’s woes with the vaccine rollout. They very quickly found themselves running a critical piece of national public health infrastructure.
Here is our story:
https://t.co/QTE7dRuJbW
I'm getting a lot of salaryman practice recently in reading updates from crypto firms that say a very different thing than they will be read as saying, in a way which is extremely, extremely intentional.
This comes up on HN all the time and drives me batty.
“Why would I spend $50 a month on this thing critical to my business when I can instead play amateur sysadmin at indeterministic timing randomly over the course of the next few years. It’s like gambling minus the winning!”
Tether released an attestation two days ago. It demonstrates conclusively that Tether became unbacked, again, earlier this month. Tether will lie about this in the future, as they have lied many times in the past.
https://t.co/JQjmCUc9fN