gell-mann but for imagining being smart reliably results in good take'shttps://twitter.com/realjdburn/status/1197316849861480448 …
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maybe the real lesson of twitter is that The Smart People Will Not Save Us And Furthermore They Seem Deeply Dysfunctional Both As A Class And As Individuals
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probably the ultimate blackpill/something-pill, at least: there is no hidden reserve of Smart Competent People every institution is run by the same kind of fuckups you see in the institutions you know about
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industry? largely made of fuckups government? largely made of fuckups nonprofits? fuckups any institution that manages to be mostly not-fuckups for an appreciable period of time will rapidly accumulate money and power until it sucks up sufficient fuckups along with
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people have to save themselvespic.twitter.com/R90kLLH38j
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