The older I get the more I appreciate civilizing power of hypocrisy. The creation of a clueless class is a small price. Benefits are huge.
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Sincerity, in sense of "say what you mean, and mean what you say" does not scale. If all had practiced that always, we'd still be in caves
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In a complex society, the opposite of hypocrisy is not sincerity, but clueless bullshitting driven by Dunning-Kruger false confidence
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Math version: only reduce a system with 2 deg of freedom (words, action) to one via constraint f(words, action)=c, by exception, not default
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Last 3 tweets were not just Trump subtweets: they also get at why SJW language policing is bad. It creates more hypocrisy than system needs
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hypocrisy balanced by trust. Multi level selection implies groups that have trust survive, but selfish individuals within thrive too
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