Your definition of "Nazi" is "has the same beliefs about race and IQ as Scott but doesn't feel sufficiently guilty about it"
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The guilt is functional! We're trying to rescue (https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/rescue_utility?l=3y6 …) our egalitarian axiology without lying in a universe where that value function has historically been supported by lies. It's a hard problem, okay?! http://unremediatedgender.space/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/#schelling-point-for-preventing-group-conflicts …
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>We're trying to rescue our egalitarian axiology Why?
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @zackmdavis and
Egalitarianism was good because it allowed a lot of people to cooperate. It worked for a while in the USA and to some extent in Europe too. Cooperation is fantastic.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
Cooperation is the best thing but it works far better without egalitarianism and in fact the more consistently you apply egalitarianism the more cooperation breaks down. As Curtis Yarvin put it in one of his recent interviews (paraphrase) "every product is produced by a king"
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @zackmdavis and
"Egalitarian doctrines are generally characterized by the idea that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or moral status"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism …
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon and
In 18th Century France this was a useful idea as the ruling class had become essentially lazy parasites. Napoleonic France was more efficient; officers in the army were promoted on merit rather than bloodlines etc.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
18th century France had a revolt *by* the ruling class, not against it; the problem there was that the King empowered the bureaucrats at the expense of the nobles whom he considered rivals - the bureaucrats didn't need the King, the nobles did.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @RokoMijicUK and
Napoleon takes the powerful forces that were unleashed and wrecking the country and expends them by turning them outward.
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Cooperation is division of labor and a hierarchy of status; egalitarianism causes so much psychic pain from having to ignore natural hierarchy that it causes a horrifically energetic counter-reaction. Far healthier -"He's above me but my worth comes from being the best me I can"
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @zackmdavis and
"""He's above me but my worth comes from being the best me I can""" The problem with this is it's thinking in terms of individuals rather than groups.
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