Also on Friday you said that you are happy when people my age die. So it doesn't matter to you that 95% of people who die are unvaccinated.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:35 AM Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com> wrote: > """ > You may be interested to know... that having identified a high risk > population... we were ethically bound to intervene in their young lives. > The result was that we established a Head Start preschool. > """ > > It mostly raises questions for me about whom I would want to establish > a Head Start program[†]. The video I posted discusses how making a > "choice of basis" can lead, via category errors, to horrific outcomes. > I often assume that something like this is what Nick is after in his > endless ramblings about classification, "fair" gerrymandering and the > rest. My opinion continues to be that there, more often than not, fails > to exist satisfactorily *unique* or *stable* solutions. It is in these > cases that one probably shouldn't strictly "act on the science". > > Relatedly, on Friday, I made some effort to argue for those not in favor > of mandatory vaccination, an argument that is very difficult for me to > raise when I perceive the majority of the room as being ready to strike. > As a result, I feel that I did a very poor job of steelmanning the > position. I may even have disappointed a few of our colleagues. > > That said, I feel that bringing balance to the discussion is important > because I live in an ever more polarizing world, one where choices made > over the last century have significantly canalized power structures and > pointed the headlights of the world in the direction of mass extinction. > To argue in against mandatory vaccination among our group (to my limited > reckoning) requires a deeper discussion of what we mean by rationality, > what such a framework gives for free and what it doesn't. I would argue > that like the gerrymandering problem, we are left to make arbitrary > choices of bases and that implies that others that we hurry to classify > as crazy (or anti-rational) may in fact prefer a different outcome. I > suppose I desired acknowledgement, among my fellow rationalists, that > what we perceive as *the* rational solution can often inhibit the search > for clearer understanding of our situation. > > As I once read on a bathroom wall in Texas, "The road to hell is paved > in good intentions". > > Perhaps, this could be rephrased more awkwardly as, "The road to hell > is paved in an ever more canalizing gradient descent". > > [†] > https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/751-unmarked-graves-discovered-near-former-indigenous-school-canada-180978064/ > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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