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It's terrible as a meme, and terrible as a culture guidepost for a big group. It is only effective in the context of a closed small trusting group making decis
by jonahbenton 6y ago
It's terrible as a meme, and terrible as a culture guidepost for a big group.
It is only effective in the context of a closed small trusting group making decisions.
One needs to make decisions, often with laughably insufficient information. So make one and watch carefully and be able to reverse if evidence tells you differently. Only works if you already have a strong trust culture and relatively equal power.
Using that policy as a leader of a larger group with a necessarily weaker trust culture and unequal power fails terribly because it comes across as capricious, and irresponsible.
- dgreensp 6y agoOh my god, yes. You also have to take the input of the group as “evidence,” and acknowledge when you may not know much about something, but someone else does.
- lambdatronics 6y agoYeah, it can devolve into the Bryan Caplan syllogism: 1. Something must be done 2. This is something 3. Therefore, this must be done.