Axe-grinder here, hi It’s not that crackpots are “almost always” right But on “almost every” topic, *some* crackpot is right-er than institutions Crackpot truth high watermark always higher+faster than inst For best results, survey crackpots for best, not institutions for avghttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1346324137409581057 …
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The point is, when institutions work right, they do so in boring and quiet ways it is easy to take for granted and radically undervalue. The result is the boring 99% of civilization.
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What’s happened is that you’ve decided big failures are what you’re going to judge institutions on. People who think that way end up wanting to burn everything down and then complain when their lives fall apart saying, “well I didn’t mean burn THAT down, that’s obviously good”
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