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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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone knew who was in touch in the USSR, Nazi Germany, Maoist China, the Aztec kingdom. What disinfecting effects?
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Not really in Maoist China where Mao unleashed his Red Guards against the supporters of other party members then (after he was dead) the place actually did get quite sane. Nazi Germany has the entire planet actively trying to annihilate them. The USSR obfuscated power.
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