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even a lot of people I sincerely like, I know you don't think. not actually. you think that you think, but you lack the cognitive capacity to break from authority. it is what it is ("you" here may not be literally you, depends on who you are specifically, obvsly)
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I'm not better than "other people" on most dimensions but on this one, I am disapproval won't change my mind, nor will it dissuade me from saying that yes I am in some real sense elite, the kind that isn't overproduced. and that's exactly the point popular =/= predictive
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But 90% sonya would be a lot better than so many “elites” at 1%. It felt so socially weird to be stocking up and really seeing NYTimes/etc be so wrong. We need different words for “elites” in turchin’s “elite overproduction” that has no positive valence.
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