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What strikes tail-wits* as low agency is actually low standards. We find it hard to make decisions because we are mostly indifferent to the options and sometimes overcompensate by overanalyzing them. * Top and bottom, ie >1 sigma tails of distribution twitter.com/vgr/status/152…
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You know why tailwit converts to centrism get frustrated? They can’t lower standards to let go the need for agency. So they can’t internalize the fundamental function of centrism: creative inertia.
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Economics is the perfect midwit discipline. It even has its own category of Nobel that’s not like the topwit Nobels.
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Embracing and evangelizing mediocrity is the thing I’ve gotten the most shit for in my life. Which is why I’m doubling down and expanding to claim midwittery.
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For those new to my occassional spasms of mediocrity evangelism (now with midwittery!), bumping an old prompt that generated many moderately inspiring slogans for mediocrity
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Brainstorming mediocrity slogans Don’t worry, be mediocre Resistance is Mediocre!
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