I enjoyed the article, but I’d like to push back on a few of the rules. Rule 1: Working at the population level can be like the story of sheep going over a cli

I enjoyed the article, but I’d like to push back on a few of the rules. Rule 1: Working at the population level can be like the story of sheep going over a cliff. This is not necessarily a biologically protective trait for the individual. Expedient yes, but not necessarily advantageous. Rule 2: Getting trusted information from other people requires that first one knows the provenance of the information. A cult is an example of “trusted information” within a group originating from one charismatic source. In this case the “weird idea” is actually normalized within the group. Rule 6: If one is to consider a fraction of weird ideas, then one has the capacity to consider all weird ideas. In fact, there is something to be gained from considering everything and using the knowledge gained in other ways. Rule X: if a weird idea looks like a horse, smells like a horse, and it whinnies like a horse, then it’s probably not a zebra.