"there are lots of unofficial power centers in the us and you probably know about all of them therefore some bullshit i believed anyway plus 19976 filler words"
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Moldbug and Yudkowsky Dark and light Two men, opposed, but joined by one Principel,,https://twitter.com/ytspar/status/1305795681907482626?s=19 …
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is the solution to ask one to write an essay about why hes the better writer and the other to write an essay about why hes the better thinkerhttps://twitter.com/bara/status/1305806594915971072?s=19 …
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Im awake now here are some reactions elaborated rather than just yelling about Moldbug needing an editor
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1. No seriously he needs an editor, this is awful writing and hes flanderized his prose. Im fine with affected shticks Obviously but this has crossed the threshold from indulgent fun and playful flair to actively harming his transmission of ideas and maybe his thought process too
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2. I hate frameworks like this. I mentioned Sims earlier, tldr this is reminiscent of old style macroeconomic models that split the economy into sectors and had elaborate flows between them and-- i dont think you get deeper understanding from this level of granularity
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Rather than setting this up as a rube goldberg model system with a bunch of weird impenetrable names and trying to force markets in prestige to clear he could have just said "here are efficient and dignified institutions, here are summaries of their nature and power"
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3. I think one thing that comes out of that kind of exercise is that the resulting essay is not as titillating because in a lot of ways everyone already can see that bureaucracies and quangos are entrenched, powerful, and nondemocratic
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Like, Eisenhower named the military-industrial complex in what, '61? The players have drifted but these sorts of extra-governmental power centers are an inevitable feature of government of any variety
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4. So maybe Moldbug does us a service by noting that the upper middle class has a stranglehold on many of these institutions but I don't know that that's especially news either, I mean that's just the story of Trump's Deplorable Rebellion right?
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5. Idk I guess I don't object to the broad characterization but I do object to being asked to read 20,000 breathless words about it The End
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This is a really good question I don't know if I could personally retrace my steps to explain how I got to have my model of power in the US anyone else have a recommendation for this? Must be something in political sciencehttps://twitter.com/chronovision3/status/1305935959704440837?s=19 …
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