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|content=<big>Without Burning Man, there would be no proof of the vast scale of the genius, decency, creativity & agency that the default world suppresses
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|content=<big>Also, the public that is HIGH agency is looking for alternate non-institutional experts:  
|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....
@nntaleb, @BretWeinstein, @jordanbpeterson, @CHSommers, @SamHarrisOrg, @HeatherEHeying, @PiaMalaney, @peterthiel, @DouglasKMurray, @Raheelraza, @tristanharris, @sparker, etc....
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|content=<big>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.
|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.
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|content=<big>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.
|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.


And you know it if you’ve ever seen a swearing-in.
And you know it if you’ve ever seen a swearing-in.
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|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.


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<big>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.


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<big>Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.  


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.
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.


Consider teaching a man to teach himself fishing..
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|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.  
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<big>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.  


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


[Thanks @george__mack.]
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|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.
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<big>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.
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|content=That thing we were told was an Internet panic is now a pandemic.
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<big>That thing we were told was an Internet panic is now a pandemic.


Is it possible that authoritative sources are now more the problem than the 1st hand videos & direct reports that were circulating?
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”?
I mean Jesus Christ: When do we overthrow this overclass of low agency “experts”?
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<big>A herd of cats.  


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


They don’t code. They don’t weld. They don’t compose. They don’t crowdsource. They don’t understand crypto. They don’t believe in standing alone.
They don’t code. They don’t weld. They don’t compose. They don’t crowdsource. They don’t understand crypto. They don’t believe in standing alone.


Now use that.
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<big>Please tell me this high agency kid is listening to The Portal.
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<big>“Hey! Administrator! Leave those kids alone.”


The K-12 version of what I‘ve been talking about in universities. Administration-heavy schools destroy our minds of greatest promise and agency.
The K-12 version of what I‘ve been talking about in universities. Administration-heavy schools destroy our minds of greatest promise and agency.
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With apologies to Pink Floyd, but the times changed...
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|content=You aren’t getting it. I actually have TWO sets of business cards: the one’s I run out are the ones *without* PhD printed on them.
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<big>You aren’t getting it. I actually have TWO sets of business cards: the one’s I run out are the ones *without* PhD printed on them.


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.
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.
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|content=Thanks for all the agency and hope over the years. Especially the hope.
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<big>Thanks for all the agency and hope over the years. Especially the hope.
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|content=You don’t have a consistent plan. And you don’t communicate scientifically. And you’re not honest about what this is doing to our kids in terms of risks and costs.
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<big>You don’t have a consistent plan. And you don’t communicate scientifically. And you’re not honest about what this is doing to our kids in terms of risks and costs.


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?
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|content=A remarkable high tech system has just been unveiled to screen out low agency humans.
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<big>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.
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.
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|content=Well executed Vaccines are miracles in *relative* risk reduction. You exchange some risk in receiving vaccine for a larger reduction of risk against a disease.
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<big>Well executed Vaccines are miracles in *relative* risk reduction. You exchange some risk in receiving vaccine for a larger reduction of risk against a disease.


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


I cannot believe all of human history brought us to this. Yet, here we are.
I cannot believe all of human history brought us to this. Yet, here we are.
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|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.
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<big>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?
What if woke Educator/Administrators are regularly & *BROADLY* doing what is alleged here?
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<big>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.
There are too many smart high agency technical people in the US with tons of equipment, kit and sensors.


As if CalTech, Lockheed, IAS and MIT don’t exist. Bullshit.
As if CalTech, Lockheed, IAS and MIT don’t exist. Bullshit.
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== Contemporary Interpretation by George Mack ==
== Contemporary Interpretation by George Mack ==
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