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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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      I was never a STEM supremacist because I didn’t win enough to get an inflated sense of myself that way. But I won enough that it was enough to immunize me against the intimidation and contempt defenses against dirty barbarian STEMmie attention on lofty humanist questions.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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      Interestingly there is nothing like wog epistemology (“brown sahib” Indian —> European going native) for STEM —> HSS. I’ve never met a STEMMie so in awe of critical theory that they accept access to HSS discourses with deferential gratitude and abandonment of subversive impulses.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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      So, tldr of my 2 immigration stories: I never self-essentialized as Indian or wog-Westerner, or as STEMMie doerist or HSS critical-theory supremacist. This has been the reward for a spectacularly mediocre 22-year adult career along all conventional vectors of accomplishment.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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      The consolation of mediocre success at life’s games around big prizes is an identity too small to obscure your view of where and how your feet are on the ground. Immigration story #1 makes me incapable of ethnonationalist sentiment on *any* side that might accept me as a member.

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    5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 11 Aug 2019
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      I don't get it. I've achieved less success than you, yet I don't have a worldview that idealizes mediocrity, *and* I'm not horribly sad about my failures. Success is actually hard! It's possible to admit you're not the best and also that it would be great if you were!

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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      I have no problem with that. I admire success, recognize that it is hard, recognize that it creates dark consequences/has a cost too. I don’t idealize mediocrity. I just recognize it as a condition worth inhabiting as much as success. In fact, I think I prefer it to “success”.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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      “Success” solves for impact, material rewards and historic significance. “Mediocrity” solves for a deeper, less judgmental appreciation of all of existence, including the success that a minority of smarter/harder-working/luckier people may achieve.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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      Mediocrity aims to bear witness to the human condition Mediocrity is perhaps about *not* idealizing success rather than idealizing itself.

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    9. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 11 Aug 2019
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      Yeah, it's the "solves for" aspect that puzzles me. Why assume you're "solving for" anything exactly (i.e. acting optimally)? Is this a guy thing?

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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      The exact opposite. Solving is NOT the same as optimizing. And it’s more hindsight reconstruction of the tendencies latent in revealed behavior than forward-looking intentionality. I wrote a thing about mediocritization vs optimization in my serieshttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/04/15/mediocratopia-4/ …

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      ooh, this is a lot like "mild optimization"https://arbital.com/p/soft_optimizer/ …

      1:08 PM - 11 Aug 2019
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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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          “Mediocrity by another name would smell sorta the same.” — Chuck Shakespeare, William’s less-known brother who reportedly wrote some mediocre forgotten plays.

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Aug 2019
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          If you read that series so far (7 parts so far, mostly short)I suspect you’ll find we don’t disagree as much as you might be assuming.

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