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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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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I'd be surprised if Yarvin has not addressed this; but good luck finding the citation in the 177 terabytes he's written over the past decade In my best steelman of him: explicit power doesn't stop failure; it prevents a certain type of democratic "distributed blame" grift
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and of course theres the 'rental car abuse' analogy
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that's valid, but plenty of people beat their own cars to death. And who drives a rental like a degenerate? A degenerate, that's who. Do you want to ride in any kind of car with a degenerate?
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That's the problem with declaring King Biden and (one of) the problems with the USSR. The system selected for the worst degenerates to be in position to take over after the death of the system because those degenerates are "safe" (read: loyal)
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Yeah I just dont think Yarvin's proposals address the first-principles issues that result in degenerate elites. Degenerate leaders of any political arrangement will result in horrific consequences. BAP probably addresses this better than Yarvin in his episode(s) on eugenics
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slow up @slow___upReplying to @eugyppius1 @OrcaImperatorSearching for intent presents a false choice, anyway. Evil is banal. "Evil comes from the failure to think." Our elites are incompetent. The destruction of values that guide the formation of proper hierarchies of power, and the outright rejection of hierarchy itself, is evil.0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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