Competent Elites — LessWrong
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Competent Elites — LessWrong
for an idea to shape society it must be communicated. There are many technical challenges to communicating ideas, and one of the more important ones is applying a gears-level understanding of how people evaluate ideas.
Samo Burja • Intellectual Legitimacy | Samo Burja
Another issue is that today’s rationalist writings suffer from the monoculture of intellectual sources, drawn from what I personally call Silicon Valley’s shadow canon: Seeing Like a State ; The Power Broker ; The Revolt of the Public ; Exit, Voice, and Loyalty ; Reasons and Persons ; Impro ; and more. (If curious about what this canon contains, ju... See more
Sheon Han • Rat Traps
My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions. That what a person tries to do, the essential task of a ... See more
defector.com • Toward a Theory of Kevin Roose
Most of us intuitively understand hierarchies as relationships of power and superiority/inferiority (etymologically, “-archy” has to do with rule/authority): these are domination hierarchies. Higher is better, lower is worse: a zero-sum mindset is assumed, and value-judgments follow. This is how our culture is structured, because domination hierarc... See more