Exclusion
Exclusion is often as or more important than inclusion.
You need some means of excluding chaos for your system to function.... Right now, the most important thing is to exclude people who can't think properly from conversations of critical importance, because everyone else can't carry that person in their attempt to reason morally about a technical issue.
-Eric Weinstein on The Jolly Swagman #100 @ 25 min
A white car pulls up beside me at a light with his window rolled down. The driver is trying to tell me something. I reflexively open my window:
âDumb, dumb. Are you dumb?â
Taken aback, I say nothing. A metal object is hurled at me. The driver speeds off. It is a liquor flask.
I look at the liquor flask now in my car. I think: âHow should I have handled it differently?â
Never roll down your window? Donât drive? Move states? Size up drivers based on appearance?
Then I realized: this problem is isomorphic to this very issue I deal with on Twitter.
The world is losing it. You have a right to a measure of insulation.
I think having a metal booze flask thrown directly at my face by a raging fellow motorist is weirdly clarifying. Exclusion is as important as inclusion. I will be slower to roll down my window from now on. Sad.
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