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Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)

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The Importance of Ambiguity as a Strategic Communication Device

Ambiguity as a strategic communication device is an essential tension with the methods of large scale collective organization. It's used nefariously in a lot of ways by let's say politicians and other kinds of leaders to avoid accountability, but it's also just a general principle of communication I think. So there are two major things I want to talk about that are in two totally directions. The first is kind of about large scale coherence and the second is about the metaphysics of ambiguity.

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