i have to say this entire experience has made me feel more warmly toward techies (who mostly nailed this) and normies (who are getting screwed) and deeply contemptuous of people who shit on techies as they were so busy doing this they neglected to evaluate our empirical claims https://twitter.com/isosteph/status/1243794537740251136 …
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Successful motivation of glory or duty for truly greats (e.g. Cincinnatus) are historic for a reason, you can't populate your government on those.
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Private rewards for the people we want in government are at least 3-5x in private industry.
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Anyone who wants the job is/should be immediately suspect. I think there's a CS Lewis quote on this, or maybe it was Tolkien.
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glory is kind of cringe
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well then
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I know I’m annoying today and I promise to drink my hemlock come the day but I’m pretty sure people like to dismiss “virtue is essential” *exactly* b/c nobody really knows how to produce or restore it. How is that better than praying the pandemic away b/c no idea how to handle?
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pretty hard when the entire system is rigged for incompetents or malignants.
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well that makes it easy!
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