Indeed I wasn’t fair to politicians—indeed there are valid arguments in favor of “caring about safety” and “signaling `care about safety`” like the one about impact on public fear of vaccination. Thanks for pointing it out. Similarly, there might be valid arguments in favor of “withholding data, model and analysis even if one was made”, so a politician not sharing them doesn’t mean it wasn’t made. Still, this suggests that words of politicians serve too much as signalling, to be easily interpreted by me verbatim as statements about reality. It’s more like Simularca Level 2: their phrase “There’s a lion on the other side of the river” perhaps means that there is tiger on the other side, or that perhaps we might drawn in the river, and perhaps indeed going to the other side of the river is not the best idea for us all to do, however I’m less and less certain that there is an actual lion over there, and that whatever really should affect for me personally (perhaps I know how to swim, and perhaps I like tigers). In my post I accuse the politicians of Simularca Level 3 (perhaps they just want to show that they care) or even Simularca Level 4 (perhaps they just want to appear that they care). After your comment I now more seriously consider it could be just Simularca Level 2, thanks. Still, I’d love to see some proof of that.
Indeed I wasn’t fair to politicians—indeed there are valid arguments in favor of “caring about safety” and “signaling `care about safety`” like the one about impact on public fear of vaccination. Thanks for pointing it out. Similarly, there might be valid arguments in favor of “withholding data, model and analysis even if one was made”, so a politician not sharing them doesn’t mean it wasn’t made. Still, this suggests that words of politicians serve too much as signalling, to be easily interpreted by me verbatim as statements about reality. It’s more like Simularca Level 2: their phrase “There’s a lion on the other side of the river” perhaps means that there is tiger on the other side, or that perhaps we might drawn in the river, and perhaps indeed going to the other side of the river is not the best idea for us all to do, however I’m less and less certain that there is an actual lion over there, and that whatever really should affect for me personally (perhaps I know how to swim, and perhaps I like tigers). In my post I accuse the politicians of Simularca Level 3 (perhaps they just want to show that they care) or even Simularca Level 4 (perhaps they just want to appear that they care). After your comment I now more seriously consider it could be just Simularca Level 2, thanks. Still, I’d love to see some proof of that.
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