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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Sometimes you can believe the right thing for the wrong reason.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
It's dangerous to encourage people to believe false things (or quietly fail to correct false beliefs) if they lead to correct conclusions though. Such strategies may work in the short term, but the world is chaotic, and generally a wrong-but-helpful belief today will become a wrong-and-harmful belief tomorrow. We learned this with the whole 2020-era attempt to try to convince people that covid is not airborne so that people would not hoard masks and leave them for emergency staff. It ended up leading to really harmful misconceptions that are still persisting.
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Legalize the number 666 today!
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the end doesnt justify the means... greater good mindset is scary.
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If I may be so bold ... ... it turns out it's a false thing to intimate that DNS-type systems are either necessary or sufficient for all variety of identity purposes in web3, let alone the multiple 'real world' contexts we believe web3 might support.
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Socialism is always embraced by those who have achieved their massive success through capitalism, & wish to hold their status through pretend compassion. I will always applaud Ethereum & your contributions, it’s been clear you were a hypocritical, forever awkward beta male socialist wishing weirdness on all of us
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Sometimes it's scary how easily false beliefs can spread, even if they lead to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.
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Nobody was saying it wasnt airborne (except fringe cases)what ppl were saying is that masks are ineffective at preventing transmission (except fringe cases). It is perplexing you would employ the exact flawed example to point out the solution.
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it's hard to know if someone's conclusion is something they reasoned out independently, or if the "conclusion" was actually received by tribal authority... and so any rationalization will do. In my experience, the difference is key, since any attempt to correct a rationalization just alienates my audience.
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This remind me of the experiment “Superstition in the Pigeon” conducted by psychologist B.F. Skinner in 1947. In this experiment, Skinner placed pigeons in a box where food was delivered at regular intervals, regardless of the pigeons’ behavior. The pigeons started associating their random actions (like wing flapping or turning in circles) with the food delivery, mistakenly believing their actions caused the reward. This demonstrated how animals, including humans, can develop superstitious behaviors when they incorrectly link their actions to outcomes.
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The COVID example shows how well-intentioned deception can create lasting harm and erode public trust. How do you think we can balance immediate crisis management with transparency, especially in complex situations where public behavior really matters?
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Wild that this class of epistemological problem was only articulated in 1963 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem
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So Brazil is right for holding Twitter accountable for not managing misinformation? Most reading the news now do not know what happened there. Bolsonaro tried a coup and failed, following a similar J6 plan. Freedom of speech is not absolute.
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Tough times
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