This is however supposed to be the community founded by a guy who spent two years writing variations on the theme: “do not rationalize away that feeling that something ’s off!” and litterally wrote the book on inadequate equilibria. So while social pressure and common human failings explain away some of it, it still seems weird that no one is writing about having the same reaction.
I mean, there hasn’t even been anyone using the catchphrase: “FDA delenda est!”
Has to the non law-abiding nature of said companies. Is it notably more common than in any other highly regulated field? Do car producers get away with cheating more or less regularly for instance?
This is however supposed to be the community founded by a guy who spent two years writing variations on the theme: “do not rationalize away that feeling that something ’s off!” and literally wrote the book on inadequate equilibria.
That doesn’t mean that it’s easy.
Julia Galef, who also advocated that “noticing confusion” is one of the key rationality skills wrote her book about the Scout mindset partly to answer why reasoning so often goes wrong.
When we are engaged in relationships that bring us out of approaching a topic with the Scout mindset our reasoning is often bad.
Has to the non law-abiding nature of said companies. Is it notably more common than in any other highly regulated field? Do car producers get away with cheating more or less regularly for instance?
When it comes to car companies, Volkswagen paid a lot of fines for faking the emissions scores in their diesel vehicles. Toyota paid huge fines for lying about the accidental acceleration of their cars.
If you ask yourself how much you should trust Volkswagen on their other claims, then the fact that they so brazenly faked their emission scores should matter. If you are thinking about whether to trust the claims of Toyota about car safety, the fact that they lied about accidental acceleration should inform your views.
There’s however a qualitative difference. Car companies just lie about their products which is a bit different than pharma bribing doctors.
Imagine you are talking in polite society, you might say two different things:
(1) The official safety data that a car company on how fuel efficient data their car happens to be is misleading and wrong.
(2) The official safety and efficiency data that some vaccine company releases for their product is misleading and wrong.
You are not going to lose social status for arguing (1) but you might very well lose status for arguing (2).
Thanks for your response.
This is however supposed to be the community founded by a guy who spent two years writing variations on the theme: “do not rationalize away that feeling that something ’s off!” and litterally wrote the book on inadequate equilibria. So while social pressure and common human failings explain away some of it, it still seems weird that no one is writing about having the same reaction.
I mean, there hasn’t even been anyone using the catchphrase: “FDA delenda est!”
Has to the non law-abiding nature of said companies. Is it notably more common than in any other highly regulated field? Do car producers get away with cheating more or less regularly for instance?
That doesn’t mean that it’s easy.
Julia Galef, who also advocated that “noticing confusion” is one of the key rationality skills wrote her book about the Scout mindset partly to answer why reasoning so often goes wrong.
When we are engaged in relationships that bring us out of approaching a topic with the Scout mindset our reasoning is often bad.
When it comes to car companies, Volkswagen paid a lot of fines for faking the emissions scores in their diesel vehicles. Toyota paid huge fines for lying about the accidental acceleration of their cars.
If you ask yourself how much you should trust Volkswagen on their other claims, then the fact that they so brazenly faked their emission scores should matter. If you are thinking about whether to trust the claims of Toyota about car safety, the fact that they lied about accidental acceleration should inform your views.
There’s however a qualitative difference. Car companies just lie about their products which is a bit different than pharma bribing doctors.
Imagine you are talking in polite society, you might say two different things:
(1) The official safety data that a car company on how fuel efficient data their car happens to be is misleading and wrong.
(2) The official safety and efficiency data that some vaccine company releases for their product is misleading and wrong.
You are not going to lose social status for arguing (1) but you might very well lose status for arguing (2).