Or you could be trying to change minds about a broader cultural attitude...which is what I’m constitutionally suspicious of.
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Same incompetence levels, just different incentives that lead to different patterns of failure (cf Boeing). Intelligence or competence is rarely even the bottleneck. Integrity and caring is. Absent that, you’ll cause failures whether you sit in public agencies or private corps.
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Computer science types like Yarvin are peculiarly vulnerable, even more so than other engineers. They inhabit spherical cow worlds and assume that because they can make what amounts to a video game of a problem as a map, they can solve the problem qua problem on the territory.
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To be clear, I’m with you on this. I’m pushing against the narrative “install a businessman as COVID19 czar because businessmen are Good”. I don’t think businessmen are categorically better people than public servants.
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I oppose government deontologically. I think if you oppose it pragmatically (“these guys are just incompetent, fire them and put in our guys”) you’ll just recreate the same problems as before.
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