i just thought of a thought that I have that is pretty odd
trusting scientists is a middlebrow thing to do. really stupid people and really smart people both mistrust scientists (for different reasons in different ways) and it's actually challenging to signal you're the latter
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“Seeing Like a State” was so loved by the Cato Institute that Jim Scott had to add a disclaimer to subsequent editions saying “stop saying I’m Hayekian I’m not into Hayek.”
If your smart critique is embraced by the stupid (or vice versa) does your signal intent matter?
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I am too stupid to have an intelligent response to this
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Scott is more leftie-anarchist like Graeber, Hayek stuff is rightie libertarian


