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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

  1. Using wrong answers to make progress while uncertain.
  2. Trying to understand how we ended up with bad people in charge from first principles.
  3. 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

  1. Never bet against (or on) the future; it’s not a very durable way to organize.
  2. Society is the house and culture is the building material.

Open loops

  1. Wrong answers are actually helpful.
  2. Basing your plan on inaccurate facts is not a very durable way to organize.
  3. Culture is the common things we’ve learned and share; society is what we build with those things.
  4. 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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Tags that connect: [[writing session]] No Government in the Cloud, Seeking the Shape of Hidden Structures.

Tags only on this post: culture, future, society, wrong answers.