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|content=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=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....

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|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=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.

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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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|content=Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.  

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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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|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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|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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|content=That thing we were told was an Internet panic is now a pandemic.

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|content=A herd of cats.  

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

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

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|content=“Hey! Administrator! Leave those kids alone.”

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

|timestamp=Nov 26, 2020

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

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