Thread by @wolfejosh

1/ The BEST thing about GOOD mental models and frameworks is their generalizability.

Are they USEFUL to advance understanding issues and find solutions?

2/ Readinf @slatestarcodex excellent piece on whether psychiatric conditions are clearly distinct CATEGORIES (in the way rabbits are rabbits + humans are humans) or DIMENSIONS (where people fall on spectrum with no clear demarcation line)...

astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-…

3/ Found it useful in thinking about how we think about RACE, clear categories or spectra: light white to dark black, eye colors, hair textures, origin stories, group identity, family lineage, geography, rights, status, income, victim, pepetrator, justice, injustice...

4/ Also found @slatestarcodex next piece on framework on how we make decisions that affect the masses using

EXPERT opinion or POPULAR opinion
+
whether we CONSULT victims
or IGNORE victims

A very useful framework for $GME +r/wsb and what comes next–
astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-weyl-…