Wokeness & software arent mutually exclusive--it's just abt priority
Egalitarianism promotes meritocracy to the extent it supports egalitarianism(distributive justice)
Meritocracy promotes egalitarianism to the extent it supports meritocracy(equality of opp, procedural justice)
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Wokeness eats the world brought civil rights, virtually all social progress, just like markets eat the world has created the prosperity that makes egalitarianism possible.
On net, amazing.
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Wokeness, to the extreme, becomes communism
Markets, to the extreme, doesn’t value human life separate from making $
When markets infiltrates egalitarianism you lose equality
When wokeness infiltrates markets you get inefficiency & authoritarianism
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When markets eat the world, it’s the closest thing to a meritocracy. For the most part, Whoever performs, wins.
When Tribalism eats the world, it’s about who you know, who you can charm (read: bribe), and who owes you favors.
H/t @Meaningness meaningness.com/metablog/post-
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If you knew wokeness was eating the world in, say, 2009, what would you have predicted? e.g
- same-sex marriage
- more democracies
- # metoo
- diversity & inclusion
- universal healthcare
- increased power of the state
- attempt to equalize opp across the board
- fertility
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Just "markets eating the world" predicts
- cryptocurrency
- charter cities
- ISAs
- prediction markets, etc
Conclusion: Society is becoming more egalitarian (AND more meritocratic), & has been for a while
At the same time software is eating the world, wokeness is eating it too
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I'm interested in feedback on this thesis, both on historical and on investment grounds.
If this thesis is true, what else does it enable or predict?
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I don't think this is true. It's something more like an entanglement of woke-and-anti-woke is eating the world... I was just doing a thread about that cf the "supremacy" dustup
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So tldr on "supremacy" thing: yarvin backchannel-baited aaronson into overreacting to some aspirational overreach by a band of the awokened ones, thereby turning it into actual overreach. These people all deserve each other
If you don't know what this is about, be glad.
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interesting. what is my thread wrong about or missing?
is wokeness eating the world and meritocracy eating the world the same thing as "woke-and-anti-woke eating the world"?
...perhaps one point missing is that there is no center?
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the point is that neither woke nor antiwoke is actually capable of eating the world, unlike software or markets (I think is right long-term about his markets thesis), so the analogy falls apart on feasibility.
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In practice what happens is that an institution that's entirely taken over by wokies tends to fail functionally before it can do serious damage these days (so that's different from communism in the 20s) while an institution that's pwned by the alt-right/alt-light/NRx is stillborn
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Though both can do serious damage in the process of failing fast in today's environment, that's not the same thing as "eating" where a functional substitution process accompanies the destruction
Also, "meritocracy" is not the logical opposite of "woke", though it sometimes marches under that banner. The logical opposite is ethnonationalism, which is why it is very hard for those who take quillette-type positions at face value to avoid that slippery slope
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And so, whether they like it or not, and no matter how much they whine about being smeared, the co-option of "classical liberalism" and "meritocracy" arguments into ethnonationalist apologia is hard to resist. The middle is not a tenable position while hedgehogs eat the world
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