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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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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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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21/ impact with footnotes. Footnotes complicate, diffuse, and render the monocausal multi-causal.
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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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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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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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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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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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27/ Either Oww My Balls, Oww My Ball Two, or Oww My Balls Eight ("The Ocho").
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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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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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30/ Yep. All "seeing like a state" is based on Theory. https://twitter.com/1337kestrel/status/1315655140398030848 …
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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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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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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
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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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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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38/ Ayn Rand also did High Theory, where aesthetics = politics = epistemology = philosophy so tiresome
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39/ Hmm...just realized that Christianity is Low Theory, not high.pic.twitter.com/wv2tWPhtte
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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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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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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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45/ No. Of course not. They're people.https://twitter.com/coinaday1/status/1315672828495233024 …
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