the author @glenweyl is very sharp economist and this is from his essay about why he is against technocrats and ultimately i think it was effective to build this sort of hofstadterian recursion into his argument
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his essay is here, continuing to read it promoted by scott's rebuttal to it, of which I read half and agreed with
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this bullet is awkward for his purpose so antitrust policy is outdated, also note from earlier paragraphs etc that if you create regulations firms will eventually route around them but market is a "problem", our technocrats arent addressing it so . . . you want better experts?pic.twitter.com/H7SWJGMxng
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"well that just sounds like technocracy with extra steps"pic.twitter.com/1TPoc3mZhE
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gratuitous swipe at Rationalists who he apparently imagines as archtechnocratic Elites with plans for social control and the ability to implement those plans (checks notes)pic.twitter.com/tWMHw3hKOi
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this is ultimately my read very tiresome the antitechnocratic position is "fuck off nerd", not "what if we add lots of additional levels to technocracy" and i resent it whenever anyone puts me in a position where I feel I have to defend yudhttps://twitter.com/postpostpostr/status/1355190819578392578?s=19 …
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This is exactly what people were saying about Chávez in Venezuela. “Oh he is a good guy it’s just that he’s surrounded by very corrupt people”
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Yeah, the marginal notes on the execution lists were just attempts to work out crossword solutions.
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man, what a hell of a way to deflect on this topic, but I'm not surprised as that's literally every commie's position on this
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This is just not what was going on at all if you read Applebaum's book. (Which is very good; despite her complete lunacy about her own time, she is a good historian)
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The passage above really embraces the old "good tsar, bad boyars" myth
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