Moldbug said something like this: Don't be angry, build things!
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Re political knowledge: I'm always amused hearing people's arguments that citizens are ignorant about politics because of huge efforts to destroy democracy and society.
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The weirdest form of the argument is "I know people who are knowledgeable and learn something about politics by themselves". I know people who learn algebraic geometry by themselves, some of them went to Oxford after forestry engineering degree in a provincial university.
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I was an econometrician, I read a lot of books (usually ~60-120 a year, most of the books are bad though), but I don't know almost anything about how to do Good Things and How Things Work.
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yeah, pretty much same econometrics left me feeling even less-confident about how to know anything, honestly also use of knowledge in society and all that -_-
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I'm very vulgar in my understanding of knowing: You can make good predictions or build stuff that don't fall apart very often, you know about a thing. One can think about different kinds of knowledge for people and other entites, but I probably don't believe in them.
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I read the study. I think that I have an unusual and relatively bad understanding/definition of knowing in my head. When they do something relatively better than others, it means that they really know more about the thing, or something like that.
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