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Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.

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    1. eugyppius‏ @eugyppius1 Aug 23

      When I was in school, I found that many éminences grises in my field had bad takes. I spent years thinking, maybe they're accidentally wrong but for good reasons, or deliberately wrong but for better reasons No I see they were limited human beings who made mistakes.

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    2. eugyppius‏ @eugyppius1 Aug 23

      There's not much room for malice in my field, but if there were, it would be orders of magnitude worse When they make stupid mistakes, you have to be prepared to accept that they're stupid. When failures happen, 99.9% of the time, you don't need theories more elaborate than that

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    3. World's Greatest Dad per Capita‏ @The_WGD Aug 24
      Replying to @eugyppius1

      This is the most powerful refutation of Yarvin. "Experts are corrupted by political power" assumes that they need to be corrupted beyond being normal humans.

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    4. Baruch Kogan‏ @BaruchKogan Aug 24
      Replying to @The_WGD @eugyppius1

      I've also never understood how making those experts formally powerful, or replacing them with formally powerful leaders, would breed responsibility.

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      Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon Aug 24
      Replying to @BaruchKogan @The_WGD @eugyppius1

      Installing a powerful leader who has subordinates who have power in their domains means they all have a direct connection between results and reward. The result of *that* is them selecting against the types who get into our elites today.

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        2. eugyppius‏ @eugyppius1 Aug 24
          Replying to @CovfefeAnon @BaruchKogan @The_WGD

          Making power legible has profound disinfecting effects, and I also think there's a reason power most often seeks to evade legibility and has enjoyed taking up residence in representative democracies and the like.

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        3. Baruch Kogan‏ @BaruchKogan Aug 24
          Replying to @eugyppius1 @CovfefeAnon @The_WGD

          Everyone knew who was in touch in the USSR, Nazi Germany, Maoist China, the Aztec kingdom. What disinfecting effects?

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        2. Baruch Kogan‏ @BaruchKogan Aug 24
          Replying to @CovfefeAnon @The_WGD @eugyppius1

          In autist world, sure. In the real world, "results" can be interpreted and games in various ways, all subject to politics. There is no system of management which can produce a Lee Kuan Yew and give him the necessary power which can't also produce a Stalin.

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        3. Quadrivial Pursuit‏ @vivadate Aug 24
          Replying to @BaruchKogan @CovfefeAnon and

          I'm not sure this addresses your point but I'm pretty sure Stalin's despotism is the best thing that could have happened to Russia given the circumstances, and the power was a lot more legible than what came before.

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