Meta-problems in general [...] are issues outside the Overton window.
Does anyone have a theory about why this is the case? Thinking out loud:
voting systems: I guess any mention from a politician would be immediately dismissed as agenda-based. And well, probably any mention from anyone.
Making changes to political systems also has a Chesterton’s fence component: we know how our system behaves, we don’t know how this new system would behave, and we know from history that we should be quite happy to have political systems that kind of work and haven’t already led us to totalitarianism. I’m not sure this aspect contributes to making these ideas outside of the Overton window, though.
academic science being focused more on prestige than on producing knowledge: it’s about prestige and social status, which are a bit taboo? Fear of fueling science deniers? Respectable newspapers have themselves been pursuing prestige for decades?
other relevant meta-problems?
In general, if you talk about changing the rules of the game you’re playing in your personal career, you’ll be dismissed as making up new rules just to get an edge; if you talk about rules you’re not playing, you’re not an expert.
Does anyone have a theory about why this is the case? Thinking out loud:
voting systems: I guess any mention from a politician would be immediately dismissed as agenda-based. And well, probably any mention from anyone. Making changes to political systems also has a Chesterton’s fence component: we know how our system behaves, we don’t know how this new system would behave, and we know from history that we should be quite happy to have political systems that kind of work and haven’t already led us to totalitarianism. I’m not sure this aspect contributes to making these ideas outside of the Overton window, though.
academic science being focused more on prestige than on producing knowledge: it’s about prestige and social status, which are a bit taboo? Fear of fueling science deniers? Respectable newspapers have themselves been pursuing prestige for decades?
other relevant meta-problems?
In general, if you talk about changing the rules of the game you’re playing in your personal career, you’ll be dismissed as making up new rules just to get an edge; if you talk about rules you’re not playing, you’re not an expert.
Any thoughts?