High Agency: Difference between revisions

|content=Without Burning Man, there would be no proof of the vast scale of the genius, decency, creativity & agency that the default world suppresses

|timestamp=Aug 24, 2016

|content=Also, the public that is HIGH agency is looking for alternate non-institutional experts:  

@nntaleb, @BretWeinstein, @jordanbpeterson, @CHSommers, @SamHarrisOrg, @HeatherEHeying, @PiaMalaney, @peterthiel, @DouglasKMurray, @Raheelraza, @tristanharris, @sparker, etc....

|timestamp=Dec 16, 2017

|content=And, no I don’t call something a conspiracy because I disagree w/ experts. I usually agree w/ them! What I disageee with is using expertise to transfer wealth & agency from the supposedly childlike voters who intuit something is rigged but can’t name it in political 3 card Monty.

|timestamp=Dec 17, 2017

|content=When we take manageable numbers of high agency people longing for opportunity from desperate nations & give them a gift of US citizenship from strength, a kind of magic happens. It rarely does taking them from advanced nations.

|timestamp=Jan 11, 2018

|content=I smell dyslexia, ADHD, or some such “learning disability” all over this story. Super high agency. High creativity. Can’t fit in. Some blood on his hands but unexpectedly little considering his “line of work.” Can’t fit in to society.

|timestamp=Jul 1, 2018

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Teach him to fish, and he becomes dependent & clingy as a student who has to be shown everything new in a time draining & soul sucking infantilizing ritual that cannibalizes his agency.

|timestamp=Dec 20, 2018

|content=Thought those of you who put up with me should know; I've been thinking about this for a long time and it's time to boost @jgreenhall's signal: high variance, high insight, and high agency. Just know, he's not your indoor cat.  

|timestamp=Feb 13, 2019

|content=It's a great feeling seeing so many people letting this idea of "high agency" impact their lives for the better.  

|timestamp=May 13, 2019

|content=Can we stop pretending that we care as a nation? Because clearly we don’t. There can be 10 of these in a month and we don’t do a thing. We don’t try things. We don’t experiment. We sit here like low agency idiots suffering from learned helplessness.

|timestamp=Aug 31, 2019

Is it possible that authoritative sources are now more the problem than the 1st hand videos & direct reports that were circulating?

I mean Jesus Christ: When do we overthrow this overclass of low agency “experts”?

|timestamp=Mar 11, 2020

Here are a few names of higher variance high agency super independent people I think highly of and I would consult on any national problem:

 

@LauraDeming

@patrickc

@paulg

@NAChristakis

@DrJoonYun

@peterthiel

@pwang

@tylercowen

@nntaleb

Liz Blackburn

|timestamp=Mar 11, 2020

|content=We're panicking because we're being lied to and misinformed. Panic is stupid: our efforts should be to get rid of our impotent institutional expert/leadership class. We have low agency get-a-long social creatures where we need disagreeable tough minded creative folks in the room.

|timestamp=Mar 15, 2020

|content=Protest political people with dazzling agency, beauty, technical rigor and grace. That class can’t do these things.  

|content=Please tell me this high agency kid is listening to The Portal.

|timestamp=May 5, 2020

The K-12 version of what I‘ve been talking about in universities. Administration-heavy schools destroy our minds of greatest promise and agency.

|timestamp=Oct 13, 2020

That’s not how it should be. But overproduction of low agency PhD drones for jobs that don’t exist has degraded my credential as a signaling device.

|timestamp=Nov 17, 2020

|content=Thanks for all the agency and hope over the years. Especially the hope.

|timestamp=Nov 26, 2020

I’ll wear a mask and follow the law if you bring us a high agency science based plan. Or Is that asking too much?

|timestamp=Dec 7, 2020

|content=A remarkable high tech system has just been unveiled to screen out low agency humans.

Once locked SmartGate2000 uses a proprietary algorithm to convince low agency humans to turn around while higher agency people willing to take responsibility for themselves easily pass through.

|timestamp=Dec 14, 2020

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Overselling vaccines takes away public agency. Then when inevitable issues crop up, Public Health credibility crumbles.

|timestamp=Apr 13, 2021

|content=We are reduced to hoping this doesn’t go critical instantaneously. All the brilliant high-agency people on earth, reduced to hoping, crossing their fingers and mumbling prayers.  

|timestamp=Oct 9, 2022

|content=I have had the feeling that @AsraNomani is talking about the tip of a *FAR* larger iceberg: merit-privilege, success-privilege, initiative-privilege, agency-privilege, talent-privilege.

What if woke Educator/Administrators are regularly & *BROADLY* doing what is alleged here?

|timestamp=Dec 23, 2022

|content=I do not believe a persistent slow moving “drone” situation in New Jersey is just a head scratcher & a big shrug.

There are too many smart high agency technical people in the US with tons of equipment, kit and sensors.

|timestamp=Dec 12, 2024

In 2024, writer and strategist '''[https://x.com/george__mack George Mack]''' published an influential essay titled ''[https://www.highagency.com High Agency]'', which sought to distill and operationalize the concept originally articulated by Eric Weinstein in 2016. While Weinstein introduced ''high agency'' as a psychological trait characterized by irreverent problem-solving and creative defiance of limitations, Mack extended the idea into a '''personal development framework''' complete with practical tools, mental models, and "lines of code" for everyday application.