Getting the baddies with wrong answers only
By Justin G. on
[backfilled on or after 25MAY01]
These are provisional notes from a raw writing session today.
Summary
- Using wrong answers to make progress while uncertain.
- Trying to understand how we ended up with bad people in charge from first principles.
- Our brains make a culture which we use to make a society and then things can go horribly wrong and you end up with the baddies in charge.
Resonant phrases
- Never bet against (or on) the future; it’s not a very durable way to organize.
- Society is the house and culture is the building material.
Open loops
- Wrong answers are actually helpful.
- Basing your plan on inaccurate facts is not a very durable way to organize.
- Culture is the common things we’ve learned and share; society is what we build with those things.
- Culture is the most transmittable thing we learn, but the people are a low pass filter; only the most sticky things get through.
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