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Patrick McKenzie AMA

After reading your article on VaccinateCA, I walked away with a strong impression that "americans got the government they deserve". What's your thought on this?

7patio112yI am extremely skeptical of desert narratives and feel they frequently blind us to actions which are in our locus of control and +EV in terms of impacts which are relevant to our moral calculi, like (as a not entirely random example) starting a crash effort to fix the government's manifest failure to act effectively during a pandemic with the goal of saving lives. I am also extremely skeptical of desert narratives generally, but the above seems like a sufficient reason to reprogram oneself to not weight them highly.