The Law of Positive-Sum Badness
I keep running into similar arguments online, where people attack “the other” and use the (correct) observation of badness to claim their side is therefore doing well. There’s a temptation to correct this by saying that in a dispute between two sides, one side being bad isn’t causally making the other better, or asserting that badness of the two are not correlated.This is tempting, but wrong - because they are correlated, in the opposite direction, and that leads to my observation:https://x.com/davidmanheim/status/2029492778737021341
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HZCEoFRKdzFAKcgFj/the-law-of-positive-sum-badness
I keep running into similar arguments online, where people attack “the other” and use the (correct) observation of badness to claim their side is therefore doing well. There’s a temptation to correct this by saying that in a dispute between two sides, one side being bad isn’t causally making the other better, or asserting that badness of the two are not correlated.This is tempting, but wrong - because they are correlated, in the opposite direction, and that leads to my observation:https://x.com/davidmanheim/status/2029492778737021341
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HZCEoFRKdzFAKcgFj/the-law-of-positive-sum-badness