I’ve done quite a bit of thinking about this, and I’m pretty familiar with the area.
If a corporation has a brand, and you have no idea how powerful, aggressive, or exploitative that corporation is (e.g. Facebook, Disney, etc), then it’s best not to write anything that calls out that brand. If you go on Reddit and write something publically about how awful Dr. Pepper is, then you’re entangling yourself into the ongoing conflict between Coca Cola and Pepsi, whether you know about it or not. And if you don’t know what you’re getting into, or even aren’t sure, then you certainly aren’t prepared to model the potential consequences.
Ok not sure I understand this. Are you saying “Big corps are both powerful and complicated. Trying to model their response is intractably difficult so under that uncertainty you are better to just steer clear?”
I’ve done quite a bit of thinking about this, and I’m pretty familiar with the area.
If a corporation has a brand, and you have no idea how powerful, aggressive, or exploitative that corporation is (e.g. Facebook, Disney, etc), then it’s best not to write anything that calls out that brand. If you go on Reddit and write something publically about how awful Dr. Pepper is, then you’re entangling yourself into the ongoing conflict between Coca Cola and Pepsi, whether you know about it or not. And if you don’t know what you’re getting into, or even aren’t sure, then you certainly aren’t prepared to model the potential consequences.
Ok not sure I understand this. Are you saying “Big corps are both powerful and complicated. Trying to model their response is intractably difficult so under that uncertainty you are better to just steer clear?”
Yes, that’s a very good way of putting it. I will be more careful to think about inferential distance from now on.