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unspeakable beliefs #175

Open ajschumacher opened 4 years ago

ajschumacher commented 4 years ago

Not quite secrets; in fact often people assume that everyone (or some people of interest) all know (whether that's true or not).

Example from The Tyranny of Metrics, page 164, on a thing that is known but not acknowledged, which might be a good way to phrase this whole idea:

"The fact that allies spy on one another to a certain degree to determine intentions, capacities, and vulnerabilities is well known to practitioners of government. But it cannot be publicly acknowledged, since it represents a threat to the amour propre of other nations."

And maybe that book's whole Chapter 14 ("Excursus") called "When transparency is the enemy of performance: Politics, diplomacy, intelligence, and marriage." I'm not sure I agree completely, but it's an interesting discussion.

Muller quotes "Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications" by Moshe Halbertal a couple times, and it seems like that book could be interesting.

ajschumacher commented 4 years ago

This "mokita" idea is sort of related, but closer to "elephant in the room," it sounds like: https://www.joshuakennon.com/mokita-the-truth-we-know-but-agree-not-to-talk-about/ (heard about this in "Fierce Foundations" training)

ajschumacher commented 4 years ago

Possibly related: A prediction (as in Foundation, or regarding the stock market) may "undo" itself if it is widely known, which is then an incentive to secrecy.

ajschumacher commented 2 years ago

Myth of the Rational Voter talks about how politicians may pretend to believe in bad but popular policies… see chapter 7

ajschumacher commented 2 years ago

Abilene paradox

ajschumacher commented 2 years ago

pulling up from https://planspace.org/2012/12/29/highlights-from-this-will-make-you/

Kafabe (Eric Weinstein) "an altered reality of layered falsehoods, in which nothing can be assumed to be as it appears"

He doesn't provide a better definition, I think, but the example that makes it clear is professional wrestling, in which everybody acts as if there's real competition but in fact the whole thing is planned. Maybe kayfabe is a specific case of Robert Trivers' entry in WWBBCP ("deceit and self-deception play a big role in human problems"), and then perhaps kakonomics is a specific case of kayfabe. Oh what a tangled web we weave?

ajschumacher commented 1 year ago

Sort of related: when you can’t or won’t say what helped you succeed: https://www.atvbt.com/the-carrot-problem/