Amanda is the only one who really understands what is going on in the corporate world now. She could also be in my “thinkers” list, though she is narrowly focused.
Rodin
I’ve always known this, but people just cannot think credibly. Being able to think clearly and assess data, information and the world as it actually coheres is so rare that I can call to mind — maybe — five people in the entire world (of living, public-ish figures) who do this routinely.
I don’t even agree with all of them. Or even most of them most of the time. But they are thinking. Which is so incredibly rare that in a world of eight billion people that only five make the cut. Fuck, that’s grim.
A great example of this lack of cognitive capability is AI. Tons of people write about it. Loads of people have opinions. Few of them understand it or use it. Most have no clue other than (most of them) hate it. Here’s where the cognitive breakage occurs. To some extent the inverse is true of the cheerleaders but among the AI-haters, they are not able to separate these four very-much-disparate contentions:
1) A lot of the AI companies are scummy.
2) I personally hate AI.
3) AI is often misused.
4) And that in many contexts and for many use cases, AI works incredibly well and is improving rapidly all the time.
How, just how, can people not separate these drastically different postulates? And truly, I am not here to defend AI. It’s here and it’s not going anywhere. My aim is to attempt to reason — as much as is possible — about how very poorly nearly all of humanity cogitates. They just cannot do it. It is absolutely beyond them. High IQ, low IQ. It doesn’t matter. They cannot think in any real sense.
By the way, my list of the five living people who can actually, credibly think:
- Zeynep Tufecki
- Tyler Cowen
- Nancy Cartwright
- Murray Shanahan
- Camille Paglia
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Ab Worth
Same. I don’t think a single adult “You’ll agree with me when you’re older” or “You’ll know better when you’re older” or “You’ll understand when you’re older” ever happened. All those adults were either wrong or attempting to manipulate or harm me in some way.
A part of that is due to where and when I grew up. It was probably better in other areas. But most adults at any time aren’t particularly wise nor particularly knowledgeable, so their advice and what is “obvious” to them is typically absolute crap and worthless.
Lie FA
Why is she mad about this? That the Fat Acceptance disphit-ass clowns were lying to her? That’s why I’d be mad.
Post-Co
Yep. In some cases, this is a weird fetish that some leftist women have.
In most, they are just regular ol’ idiots.
Operating Load
Agreed. To operate competently in modern society takes about 115 IQ. Average is of course 100.
This explains many bad outcomes. Not sure what to do about it, if anything.
FA’s Last Hurrah
We're finally learning the true side-effects of weight-loss drugs.
This is probably part of a front in the Fat Acceptance/Early Death backlash to GLP-1s. It was inevitable. That camp hates that these drugs exist. And this is why:
The vast majority of FA types are women and that someone can get so massively hotter in such a short time triggers their big (pun very much intended) intrasexual competition feelings. And that leads to real-world attempted actions.
Don’t let them get away with it.
Remig 29
Remigration now. It won’t ever happen but it should. Forced, immediate, and without mercy.
Passion of the Too Nice
This was always the end state of third-worldism and denials of basic biology and genetics. The ideology has nowhere else to go when you start clashing with actual physical reality.
PE
What the fuck is up lately with all the extroverts attempting to convince people that introverts don’t actually exist?
Pretty evil if you ask me.
No Apologies
As I’ve observed before, entirely too much of the left/liberal ideology is attempting to force people superior to them to apologize to them for how much those on the left suck and are incompetent.
We just have to stop allowing that.
Mansp
Agreed. “Mansplaining” is a fundamental gender difference. Women seek to build consensus; men seek to assert dominance and figure out who is actually the expert, no matter their title.