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[Frank Wimberly]

Also on Friday you said that you are happy when people my age die.  So it
doesn't matter to you that 95% of people who die are unvaccinated.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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Santa Fe, NM

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:35 AM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> """
> You may be interested to know... that having identified a high risk
> population... we were ethically bound to intervene in their young lives.
> The result was that we established a Head Start preschool.
> """
>
> It mostly raises questions for me about whom I would want to establish
> a Head Start program[†]. The video I posted discusses how making a
> "choice of basis" can lead, via category errors, to horrific outcomes.
> I often assume that something like this is what Nick is after in his
> endless ramblings about classification, "fair" gerrymandering and the
> rest. My opinion continues to be that there, more often than not, fails
> to exist satisfactorily *unique* or *stable* solutions. It is in these
> cases that one probably shouldn't strictly "act on the science".
>
> Relatedly, on Friday, I made some effort to argue for those not in favor
> of mandatory vaccination, an argument that is very difficult for me to
> raise when I perceive the majority of the room as being ready to strike.
> As a result, I feel that I did a very poor job of steelmanning the
> position. I may even have disappointed a few of our colleagues.
>
> That said, I feel that bringing balance to the discussion is important
> because I live in an ever more polarizing world, one where choices made
> over the last century have significantly canalized power structures and
> pointed the headlights of the world in the direction of mass extinction.
> To argue in against mandatory vaccination among our group (to my limited
> reckoning) requires a deeper discussion of what we mean by rationality,
> what such a framework gives for free and what it doesn't. I would argue
> that like the gerrymandering problem, we are left to make arbitrary
> choices of bases and that implies that others that we hurry to classify
> as crazy (or anti-rational) may in fact prefer a different outcome. I
> suppose I desired acknowledgement, among my fellow rationalists, that
> what we perceive as *the* rational solution can often inhibit the search
> for clearer understanding of our situation.
>
> As I once read on a bathroom wall in Texas, "The road to hell is paved
> in good intentions".
>
> Perhaps, this could be rephrased more awkwardly as, "The road to hell
> is paved in an ever more canalizing gradient descent".
>
> [†]
> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/751-unmarked-graves-discovered-near-former-indigenous-school-canada-180978064/
>
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