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SpaceXponential
These two extreme groups are similar in surprising ways. They are the whitest and richest of the seven groups, which suggests that America is being torn apart by a battle between two subsets of the elite who are not representative of the broader society. What’s more, they are the two groups that show the greatest homogeneity in their moral and... See more
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
The metaphor of risk management uses financial incentives to empower our nobler epistemic instincts.
While the metaphor of Facts excuses us from the responsibility of exercising personal judgment, the metaphor of risk management uses financial incentives to empower our nobler epistemic instincts to overcome our lazier ones.
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The metaphor of risk management creates good-faith discourse.
In a market, everybody knows their ideological opponents are making an honest effort to understand — or, l iterally paying for the luxury of not making that effort.
A market is a mechanism for establishing cross-ideological trust.
Note that Wall Street bulls never characterize bears as
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I think of my friends with wild creativity and technical skills, who aren’t at all interested in participating in the conversation in the art world, with no intention to be remembered for their art, or anything. Something about the idealism of web3, its insistence on a narrative of revolution now, its urge to change the course of history right... See more
Wendi Yan • An Artist in Crypto
One of the most pleasurable parts of learning a new domain for me is developing the language that accompanies the development of taste. This is this sort of chocolate, and I like that more because xyz, this sort of music. There is a delight in finally discovering the exact right label for one’s felt experience. Language facilitates higher levels of... See more
Jasmine Wang 🌱 • Attending to the Other
Digital Wellness and
But truth, unlike information, has a centripetal force that holds society together. Information, on the other hand, is centrifugal, with very destructive effects on social cohesion. If we want to comprehend what kind of society we are living in, we need to understand the nature of information.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
The former CIA analyst Martin Gurri predicted these fracturing effects in his 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public. Gurri’s analysis focused on the authority-subverting effects of information’s exponential growth, beginning with the internet in the 1990s. Writing nearly a decade ago, Gurri could already see the power of social media as a universal... See more
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Taleb’s notion of rationality-as-risk-management liberates “rationality” from conflicting sets of rhetorical expectations, and replaces them with a common set of market incentives .
Market incentives create the kind of consensus the information age demands, and also the kind of people who can tolerate it .