elon musk is the result of an accidental (?) form of memetic selection. criticize everyone for doing anything and you create a world in which the only people who do anything are the ones immune to criticism. and tbc, this is not good; immunity to criticism makes cult leaders
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wonder if it’s some kind of high modernist thing to believe that only the first-order effects of an intervention matter, and refuse to think ecologically
“oh, thing bad, better criticize it. this will definitely cause there to be less of thing. yep. that always works”
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where would I read more about this
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the leverage points essay feels related, might be a place to start idk:
