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I assume this is a strategy (the man is a marketing/pr strategist) borrowed from certain climate change advocacy groups which is basically to take up the most e
by flave 1y ago
I assume this is a strategy (the man is a marketing/pr strategist) borrowed from certain climate change advocacy groups which is basically to take up the most extreme possible position and hope to “shift the Overtone Window”.
Personally I think it’s a. Immoral b. Dangerous and c. Self defeating.
Immoral because deceiving is actually quite bad regardless of your justification.
Dangerous because you will attract true-believers who are neurotic, mentally ill or misguided and really believe what you’re saying as a strategic thing. You will create a movement that you don’t control and is just wrong about the world.
Self-defeating partly for the above reasons but mostly because you may discredit your position with the people who understand “just enough” and those people run many major companies, countries etc.
- Y_Y 1y agoI'm guessing you're referring to the Overton Window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window but now you've got me wondering if that's just a clever turn of phrase and there's some poetic analogy to higher harmonics and compactly-supported SDE-estimation tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function
- flave 1y ago! Yes I was. But please also see: Ovaltime Window: the period where you can drink a hot drink Oval-Time Window: a real window where you can watch cricket in SW London Overdone Window: when food is just perfectly overcooked
- Y_Y 1y agoI like the cut of your jib. May I propose: Ovaltine Window: You view all politics with distaste because you are drinking a sorry substitute for a cup of tea. Overtime Window: Rather than continue working extra hours you decide to self-defenestrate --- Further reading: Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm Douglas Adams - The Meaning of Liff, https://ia601202.us.archive.org/18/items/calibre_library_76.105.31.130/The%20Meaning%20of%20Liff%20-%20Douglas%20ADAMS%20%26%20John%20Lloyd_42.pdf https://ia601202.us.archive.org/18/items/calibre_library_76....
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