The most underrated and under-discussed phrase in Moldbug's corpus is 'Manipulating procedural outcomes.'
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Moldbug spotted this phrase on a minor Cathedral functionary's blog. http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/01/04/competency-as-a-cultural-value/ …
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Reading that minor Cathedral functionary's blog I'm tempted to dust off Hayak's Pretense of Knowledge. For all their obsession with "wonkery" and "competency," one is reminded that they wear blinkers that render them unable to fix simple problems leading to more and more bandaids
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Moldbug would say that's what the environment selects for. Actually solving problems reduces the budget of functionary bureaucracies.
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