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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 14

      eigenrobot Retweeted cwage

      actually yeah this makes a lot of sense maybe most people dont actually care whether institutions work. if so why even bother trying to explain this to them also why would institutions put forth effort to function if no one cares welphttps://twitter.com/cwage/status/1426661032135696384 …

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 14

      the CDC is not about preventing pandemics its about having an agency whose mission is preventing pandemics universities are not about research or education theyre about having universities the FDA isnt about etc

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 14

      eigenrobot Retweeted Carlo Lancellotti

      concerned about thishttps://twitter.com/_CLancellotti/status/1426211691734474756?s=19 …

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      Carlo Lancellotti @_CLancellotti
      The Afghan story confirms my prediction that a society run by "experts" (credentialed people with "technical" training but no philosophical grasp of human realities) is destined to die of incompetence.
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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 14

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      it feels like no one knows how to do anything anymore everything is form and nothing is substance idk I think this is related its disheartening in conclusion I blame universal public educationhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1422585882310176774?s=19 …

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      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      ive occasionally thought that the easiest way to do good empirically work was to go talk to people with metis and just translate that to some BS episteme. and then i started to wonder why the episteme even mattered most of the time https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1422565071717380103 …
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        2. Halikaarnian‏ @Halikaarn1an Aug 14
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Nuclear strategy establishment bears a huge responsibility for this too.

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        3. Halikaarnian‏ @Halikaarn1an Aug 14
          Replying to @Halikaarn1an @eigenrobot

          “Too important to fail”, “Too secret to explain details”, “Too complicated for common person to understand” is a hell of a combination. Plus a lot of arguably justified bluffing w/r/t actual strategy as a way to keep Soviets guessing.

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        2. acid shill‏ @acidshill Aug 14
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          my hypothesis is that hard science produced tremendous returns, convincing everyone that Science (and Academia in general) is great, and then they placed entirely too much trust in social science

          3 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
        3. acid shill‏ @acidshill Aug 14
          Replying to @acidshill @eigenrobot

          lots of narratives about Progress and Technology and The Scientific Method being amazing and responsible for all the good things that have happened in the last 100 years which is true, but a lot of less-useful stuff gets snuck under the same umbrella

          2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
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        1. Store Brand‏ @storebrandguy Aug 14
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          I don't know what the standard is to compare any of this to. Why isn't there a homeland terrorist attack every month? Why didn't society collapse with the pandemic? Feels like everything could easily be a lot worse and it's amazing that it isn't.

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        2. SQUIRREL OF G_D‏ @MadeInMycelium Aug 14
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Been reading (listening to) Ellul, and he makes the point that our fixation on ideas is a waste of time because thinkers and implementers have become totally separate groups.

          1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
        3. SQUIRREL OF G_D‏ @MadeInMycelium Aug 14
          Replying to @MadeInMycelium @eigenrobot

          He basically sees "ideology" as something that ran it's course by the early 1900s, as we've went past the point where actually implementing ideas might happen, with methodology and social patterns largely replacing what ideas were in simpler times.

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        2. Fred Arnolfson‏ @arnolfson Aug 14
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Was just thinking about this today. The F35 gets a lot of crap for huge cost overruns. But I'm not entirely sure that the US could design another new plane from the airframe up, period. The recent Boeing crashes were fundamentally caused by slapping new engines on old frames. Etc

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        3. GOKU a.k.a. Ready in a Few Days‏ @readyinafewdayz Aug 14
          Replying to @arnolfson @eigenrobot

          It's not even that, it's that they were then putting in automation to correct the angle of attack.... WITHOUT TELLIGN THE PILOTS.

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        1. Pirkka-Joose Sempé 27 5'3''‏ @pjsempe Aug 14
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Every institution ends up working for its own sake, Pournelle's law is an iron law. Let's contemplate that on the tree of woe, I guess

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