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by mjburgess 1318 days ago
The whole piece, "the geometry of conscience" is about guilt-by-association.

Rather than use the phrase, he takes "association" to be a distance metric, and guilt to be a measure of conscience.

I'd suppose quite a lot of people have, of late, felt the "guilt by association" culture inimical to a lot of social media. This is just his way of illustrating its impact on him.

A woman in a leadership position might likewise have said, "and I'm supposed to be JK Rowling, ..."