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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      3/ A trailer park example of High Theory is "Jews pull all the strings" or "whites are better than blacks in every way".

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      4/ A mid brow example of High Theory is "Christianity caused the dark ages and delayed Real Civilization by 1,000 years".

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      5/ High brow examples of High Theory are whatever most philosophers are nattering on about, and anything 1 or 2 steps removed from a TED talk.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted eigenrobot

      6/ Einstein said "make things as simple as possible, but no simpler". High Theory overshoots the mark and makes things way too simple. hilarious explanation of every High Theory ever -->https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225 …

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      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      everything 👏 is 👏 monocausal 👏 and 👏 specifically 👏 results 👏 from 👏 whatever 👏 shit 👏 I'm 👏 on 👏 about 👏 at 👏 any 👏 given 👏 time
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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      7/ Libertarian High Theory says things like "without the state redistributing wealth illegitimately and creating crimes, we wouldn't need jails" This theory is too simple in a dozen different ways. - There have always been murders and rapes - laws that are indeed BS tend to >

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      8/ ensnare the low conscientious and criminal. The guy who was drinking in public is almost certainly causing all sorts of other problems...and would under any system of governance.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      9/ Red Tribe High Theory is that we need a praetorian class and a return (RETVRN!) to traditional values, and then everything will be good. ...as if (a) feedback loops w cops aren't fundamentally broken, or (b) there was ever a golden age, or (c) RETVRN is possible

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      10/ Aesthetic High Theory is that if we simply (SIMPLY!) prioritized nice livable environments we'd all live in wood frame cottages, eat home cooked meals, have babbling brooks in the back yard, etc., but greedy architects / planners / whoever stole it all from us.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      11/ The canonical example of High Theory that I like to point out is the bumper sticker that, say, a music teacher will have on her crappy used car "teach music; build world peace" (or whatever dumb variant) It's a coupling of all good things, or all bad things One single root

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      12/ The One Single Root aspect of high theory is what makes it so appealing If only we could FORCE THEM TO OBEY THE CONSTITUTION, or TEACH THEM NOT TO RAPE, or whatev then not only would crime fall to zero, but the genders would live in peace, and it would never rain on picnics

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

      13/ Someone (Joel on Software? JWZ?) wrote an essay once about how everyone wants to rewrite the crufty old code to simplify it...but every bit of that cruft is a work around for a specific scenario, or a fix, or a feature someone wants. Books start w no page numbers >

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          14/ transition to roman numerals, and then transition to arabic numerals. You can simplify the word processor, but you then start removing compatibility with desires for such features. ...but even this is effectively a pragmatic argument. My argument about Theory is not JUST

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          15/ pragmatic. It's more about correct analysis of things. It is just flat out wrong to assert that we only have cars because the auto mfgrs bought up the streetcars and dismantled them. That's true (slightly) but the results are overdetermined.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          16/ We are a car based society for dozens of reasons - each of them with a different coefficient. We have rape for dozens of reasons, each with a different coefficient. We have copyright law for dozens of reasons. And, in turn, each of these "things" is not one thing but

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          17/ a cluster of things. Cars are tools to commute, and to transport kids, and to shop, AND status symbols, AND mating tools, and and and Democracy is a tool for selecting rulers, AND a tool of mythmaking, AND an outlet for sociopaths, AND a historic accident, AND ...

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          18/ And so any attempt to say that democracy IS X, or MEANS X,or is INCOMPATIBLE with Y, is wrong, because "democracy" is really a cluster of different / overlapping things. This is bad news for the rationalist enterprise (both the modern one in 2020 and the earlier wave >

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          19/ ...that day dreamed of formal languages for debating propositions using Boolean logic, etc. Moldbug is pretty formalist and High Theory, and this is to be expected, because he's autistic & we autists love high theory I like reading Molds bc his theories and writing are fun

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          20/ ...but Molds really only does a tiny bit of high theory. A LOT of what he writes is really more the footnotes, and footnotes are inherently anti-high theory. High theory is about principles divorced from details, and footnotes are details. High theory can't survive >

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          21/ impact with footnotes. Footnotes complicate, diffuse, and render the monocausal multi-causal.

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          22/ I think that High Theory is oversupplied relative to ideal market clearing quantities bc it's fun to do, easy to do, and it looks high status. Confidence is attractive, and so flatly asserting "All governments derive from <X>" sounds both smart and confident.

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          23/ High theory is basically bumper sticker campaigning, but at a meta level, not an object level. Bumper sticker: No farms no food (e.g. "I'm virtuous and important for farming") High theory: "All power flows from the control of resources" or whatever

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          24/ and... I dunno where I'm going with this. Basically, this, I guess: almost everything in the real world is messy. Code has more parts than you might thing. Rivers have no one "head water". Every machine has hundreds of parts. ...and High Theory ignores all of this.

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          25/ Let me propose an inversion of Occam's Razor: instead of "do not needlessly multiple causes", "do not needlessly ignore causes".

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted aashiq.sol ( 🙈, 🙈)

          26/ well, I do agree that it's better if multiple Causes are being debated at once ...but I think that in practice, the result is not most ideological consumers handcrafting results using a diversity of parts ... but each person subscribing to >>>https://twitter.com/aashiq/status/1315654499965394944 …

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          aashiq.sol ( 🙈, 🙈) @aashiq
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          If many different groups evangelize their pet high theory simultaneously, the idea marketplace as a whole is dynamic and multicausal. If every individual group acknowledged the complexity, you might just see a morass of indecision and inaction.
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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          27/ Either Oww My Balls, Oww My Ball Two, or Oww My Balls Eight ("The Ocho").

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          28/ "Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war." - Clausewitz

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          29/ "Everything is very simple in Theory, but the simplest thing is complicated in Reality. These complications accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen Reality." - me

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

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          30/ Yep. All "seeing like a state" is based on Theory. https://twitter.com/1337kestrel/status/1315655140398030848 …

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Brownian Motion

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          Brownian Motion @cobrownell
          Replying to @MorlockP
          This is evident in Gell-Mann Amnesia. If you’ve seen the rubber hit the road in one domain of expertise you can chuckle ruefully at the simpletons. In most other domains you’re the rube that has no idea what you don’t know.
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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Camping Roomba

          32/https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1315660868349198336 …

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          Camping Roomba @ctdonath
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Reliable success (ex.: Apple, Tesla, Molock Publishing) stems from meticulous & tenacious tracing principles to details. This. Is. Hard. Few are capable of doing so without neglecting some branch or level (due to panic/incompetence), causing failure. Detail is costly but vital.
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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

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          33/ I'm a huge fan of "theories" - I just hate High Theory. Theories help organize and explain. High theory blinds. https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1315664515934162946 …

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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

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          34/ We agree here. I'm just using "High theory" in the way that you use "theory that starts with theory and cherry picks data", and "low theory" in the way you use "starting with facts and then testing". https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1315664748378230784 …

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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          35/ Also, maybe my "High Theory" maps to part of Kegan 4, and "Low theory" / "diversity of theories" maps to Kegan 5 and all that associated @Meaningness stuff

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        24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          36/ When you start out with a theory that you are convinced explains EVERYTHING, then things that do not mesh well with the theory get denied, ignored, or attacked. When you have multiple small theories, a thing that does not fit with T1 perhaps fits with T2.

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        25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          37/ This thread touched on earlier trads who want to tie architecture aesthetics into a just economy for the working man, which is tied into traditional families, which is tied into Christianity, which is ... I think, OTOH, that those each demand their own theory.

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        26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          38/ Ayn Rand also did High Theory, where aesthetics = politics = epistemology = philosophy so tiresome

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        27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          39/ Hmm...just realized that Christianity is Low Theory, not high.pic.twitter.com/wv2tWPhtte

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        28. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          40/ I'm also a fan of low theory, not high, in governance. Common Law is low theory - "here's what kinda more or less worked over time, and there's no a coherent philosophical basis for the whole thing beyond pragmatism."

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        29. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Prince-philosopher Coinaday  🤴 🧐

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          Prince-philosopher Coinaday  🤴 🧐 @coinaday1
          Great thread but missing this: We need such a "High Theory" as the base of our personal narrative. And yet it will be false. The solution is to choose a relatively harmless lie, such as "Coinaday is the only significant Prophet in the last thousand years" and run with it. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1315646152331726849 …
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        30. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          42/ I can't imagine basing my own personal narrative on something that I can't help but see as nonsensical. But, OTOH, that means that I don't have much of a personal narrative. I guess it boils down to "I try to do X, but !@# happens and I end up doing Y instead". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        31. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Corn Woman  🌽

          43/ "Conversational tool", you say? Well, I've tried screaming "you are stupid, and you are saying stupid things, and please stop that" at people, but I can't really recommend it as being effective.https://twitter.com/WomanCorn/status/1315668389164089345 …

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          Corn Woman  🌽 @WomanCorn
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          Is there a conversational tool that let's us focus on one part of the cluster without (accidentally) elevating it to the end all be all?
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