and more generally that people mostly arrive at beliefs and decisions via kludge-y heuristics that take weird, latent inputs
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unsurprisingly Big Social Theories consistently do a shit job of predicting out of sample we're best just abandoning them altogether imo
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our Big Social Theories are all in same tradition as ancestor theories, which worked back then bc >120IQ ppl were in charge of the vast bulk
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Now tho the fashion for ideas is communism (eg proletariat), democracy (eg everyone equally), etc., which put vast bulk in charge of >120s
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what *would* work here is Theories for why smarts should serve normies (think we're already seeing this develop with "privilege theory")
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(the fashion of communism/democracy being the general trend of ideas, like "conservative" or "skimpy" might be trends for actual fashion)
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anyway main problem is we follow the same intellectual tradition trying to produce new theories for a fundamentally different fashion
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like trying to put Victorian frills and ruffles on a miniskirt
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