Now apply this to every other subject, and ask yourself: would you rather be correct among imbeciles, or wrong among the moderately intelligent?https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1259180423998914560 …
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This is a point which Yarvin used to make in his Moldbug days, and Lord help me, he was right: it’s true that much of right-wing opinion is just irritable mental gestures masquerading as ideas, and it’s true that most right-wingers are imbeciles or cranks, but they’re often right
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Imagine having a heuristic that allowed you to be both a complete idiot and right. You'd be unstoppable.
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