The Law of Extremity seems to work against the Law of Maybe Calm The Fuck Down. If the median X isn’t worth worrying about, but most Xs you see are selected for being so extreme they can’t hide, then the fact you are seeing an X is evidence about its extremity and you should only calm down if an unusually extreme X is not worth worrying about.
Ah, thanks for pointing this out. There’s an unstated assumption: you stumbled across some dark matter, that was basically hidden.
If you have a full-on psychotic break, you’re likely going to resemble the caricatured stereotype of a schizophrenic, and get noticed. But that’s not quite the thing I’m trying to gesture at in the OP.
If somebody overhears you talking to your voices in the shower, the voices you’ve been talking to for decades while remaining a high-functioning individual, they’re likely to leap to the conclusion that, since you have SYMPTOM of SCHIZOPHRENIA, you closely resemble the caricatured stereotype.
(This is the fearful swerve—people overupdating and dumping all of their other relevant experiential data of you, because the dark matter label overwhelms them and they forget that their new hypothesis needs to explain all the previous data too.)
The point being something like “if all that you have learned is that person has [trait], when you thought they didn’t, you might be in danger of jumping to an unjustified conclusion (and creating a tragedy, as a result).”
The Law of Extremity seems to work against the Law of Maybe Calm The Fuck Down. If the median X isn’t worth worrying about, but most Xs you see are selected for being so extreme they can’t hide, then the fact you are seeing an X is evidence about its extremity and you should only calm down if an unusually extreme X is not worth worrying about.
Ah, thanks for pointing this out. There’s an unstated assumption: you stumbled across some dark matter, that was basically hidden.
If you have a full-on psychotic break, you’re likely going to resemble the caricatured stereotype of a schizophrenic, and get noticed. But that’s not quite the thing I’m trying to gesture at in the OP.
If somebody overhears you talking to your voices in the shower, the voices you’ve been talking to for decades while remaining a high-functioning individual, they’re likely to leap to the conclusion that, since you have SYMPTOM of SCHIZOPHRENIA, you closely resemble the caricatured stereotype.
(This is the fearful swerve—people overupdating and dumping all of their other relevant experiential data of you, because the dark matter label overwhelms them and they forget that their new hypothesis needs to explain all the previous data too.)
The point being something like “if all that you have learned is that person has [trait], when you thought they didn’t, you might be in danger of jumping to an unjustified conclusion (and creating a tragedy, as a result).”