[Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger
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Cherry Pick Stats That Make It Look Like Everything Is Getting Better
The techno pessimist and the techno optimist both cherry pick, and they both la co frame. And so these very simple semantic frames, contextual frames, cherry picking of the things, means that i can make a narrative where all the facts went through the most rigorous fact checker, and yet the narrative as a whole is misleading. It's important to understand that, depending upon what you pick, its just that the things that are getting worse are heading towards tipping points that make the whole thing no longer valuable. They both have stats, but this is actually, you cauld almost think of it as statistical warfare as a tool of narrative warfare.
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