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John Vervaeke and Chad the Alcoholic: The Failure of Institutions and Unintended Consequences

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The Importance of Legibility

I wonder if I could just offer an alternate frame and not not because I think you need a different frame but sometimes if you frame it a little bit differently you can come out and just say the day somebody posted this article on Twitter. The name of the article is a big little idea called legibility. Weight Watchers followed the same trajectory that Alcoholics Anonymous did. You fail to understand all the subtleties of how the complex reality works then you attribute that failure to the irrationality of what you are looking at rather than your own limitations. And you argue that the relative simplicity and platonic orderliness of the vision represents rationality then you use authoritarian power to impose that vision by demolishing

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