That time the world fought a totally imaginary foe
The interventions would have been ineffective, damaging and unethical even if the foe hadn’t been imaginary, but as it happens…
I talk about how priors got so warped here…
And also…
0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.
I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...
This thread gets more at the many facets of common sense it wrecked.
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Mark Changizi, lobotomized @MarkChangizi
Would it be appropriate to speak of guided delusions of the masses?
Would it be similarly appropriate to inquire about retribution to be visited upon a good cross section of the Judas Iscariots who purposely and with studious malice aforethought destroyed many lives and livelihoods?Somehow it seems inadequate only to be castigated in the media.