spooky take
occurred maybe the case for pessimism rn is not any particular policy by the administration or woke people taking over everything or gadsden flag mobs or whatever
rather its that the us government seems incapable of responding to new crises and they accumulate
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@robinhanson ht@arctanno this seems like a very difficult and unsolved problem see also the guy whose name i forget talking about sociopolitical sclerosis generally https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/10/what-makes-stuff-rot.html …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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seems a relevant q to hanson's post https://www.overcomingbias.com/
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Scale variance is a nightmare.
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I know this is an ongoing theme in my posts but I just worry that our elite structure has become so corroded we simply do not possess a competent governing class any more. And there's certainly no reason to believe the rising elites are going to do anything but make it worse.
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that seems like one more straw on the camels back among many i guess
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Unfortunately the upper levels have been working to break down and destroy the lower levels of control
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There's no stable floor but there's a lot of ruin in a nation. I suspect the question is for how long we descend slowly before the floor disintegrates. Europe is ahead of us, though. Cf. "Gradually and then suddenly".
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incompetence is a powerful and easy illusion to pull off
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ilu2, staying strapped
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