A thing I allude to at one point is that partially these disclaimers are a professional obligation and partially they are a very real response to actual humans Ctrl-Fing all mentions of their firm and competitors then sending emails in response to them. Sometime that is awkward.
@patio11
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Payments Industry Insider Shares Professional Background Disclaimer
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I'll make the obligatory disclaimer that I previously worked in payments and am not speaking on anyone else's behalf, including not on behalf of the numerous firms that one brings up when discussing things that people actually use to complete transactions a day-to-day basis.
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Tether Investors Face Risks from Potential Deception
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People who make a habit of believing Tether will have unfortunate and thoroughly predictable futures when they suddenly come to understand that Tether lied to them.
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USDC Reserve Crisis: Dollar Backing Questioned Amid Tether Concerns
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USDC’s business is keeping an actual dollar in some accessible place against the possibility of redemption, but their dollars are being syphoned off to Elsewhere. If we believe Tether, the delta is currently in Tether’s reserves.
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USDC Faces Existential Risk From Tether Cartel Entanglement
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This is an existential risk to USDC because instead of operating a mostly legit stablecoin they find themselves unwittingly in the business that FTX found itself wittingly: as the cash management frontend for the Tether cartel.
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Gresham’s Law: Bad Money Drives Out Good Money
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This is a thing which no serious person should want, but which is predicted by Gresham’s law: bad money drives out good money. In the original context, it referred to money which had or lacked precious metals in the specie. Here, it refers to claims that can turn into cash.
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Education Policy Prevents Measurable Student Achievement Assessment
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Even worse than that, it is “No child gets ahead *legibly.*” ‘Can’t be responsible for the results of a test if you ban test taking’ is basically the explicit theory here.
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Teaching Kids About Professional Relationships and Adult Work
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(A random parenting note: I’m trying to give the kids more context on adult lives than I got as a child, so they have some model for “Oh, Daddy is going to meet some Internet people *because deepening and maintaining professional relationships is part of professional jobs.*”)
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AI Refuses to Acknowledge Common Knowledge About Mules
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Then I also had to explain that sometimes the Knows Everything box is so unwilling to make anyone feel bad that it will pretend not to know the thing that all Americans know about mules.
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Making Complex Ideas Accessible to Nine Year Olds
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And how many things in the entire world make any effort at all, let alone a successful effort, to explain something to a nine year old like they’re nine.