Telling people “you don’t think this yet but you Should” or “you won’t like this, but it’s true” is a dominance trick. It’s a neg. it plays on the fear of being criticized.
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It’s just the same tedious authoritarian high modernism failure problem. Seeing like a State, Operating System edition. And no “OS” theory of how a “broken” system should be “fixed” survives first contact with the messiness of the world.
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Not to go all Chesterton’s Fence about this (that mental model has its own problems), but I’ll take the opinion of armchair world fixers and bureaucracy reformers seriously atm only if they spend at least ONE day on a meaningful frontline.
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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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