> Why does random newsletter guy have a better system than two “we care a lot about the truth” news corporations each worth billions? Because the news corporat

> Why does random newsletter guy have a better system than two “we care a lot about the truth” news corporations each worth billions? Because the news corporations are solving a very different (and much harder) problem. It's the same reason the rationalist community was ready for the pandemic weeks or months ahead of the general populus. A small entity (such as a newsletter) has the slack to actually optimise for truth. A large entity must instead optimise for power. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-... and https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/why-i-am-not-in-charge/ https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/why-i-am-not-in-char... .