"People are not rebelling against economic elites, but rather against cognitive elites...Elites have basically rigged all of society so that, increasingly, one must deploy the cognitive skills possessed by elites to successfully navigate the social world."
@robkhenderson Received voting info for the November election in California. Used to be one was registered and showed up to vote. An absentee ballot for people planning to be away on Election Day. Dispensation for military serving overseas. Now: ten pages explaining the intricacies of voting .
@robkhenderson "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Opening a bank account or renting, or taxes do not require cognitive skills. The envied class yet pretend rebels. Still doesn't explain the nepos; they get a free pass. Generational wealth is out
@robkhenderson The expert-oriented society which emerged early 20th C, by mid 20th C a tiny and remote sliver of the workforce, and now its culture has penetrated society: economic and social dominance. Trump seemingly hostile response but commandeering it for himself and friends.
@robkhenderson This is such a weak and self-serving argument. Just more self-congratulatory intellectual masturbation. Self-identified "cognitive elites' when they effortlessly say "unhoused" instead of "homeless":
@robkhenderson It’s not true skill. It’s the regurgitation of utopian midwit jargon.
@robkhenderson Perhaps people are rebelling against intellectual hubris? I often find that the elites' sense of conviction has nothing to do with reality.
@robkhenderson He's so close. Unbelievable
@robkhenderson Good points well made. The greatest potential of AI is that it wholly undermines the cognitive elitism which has been primarily been based around 'hoarding' & guarding specific useful knowledge; credentialism in academia, insider expertise in business & finance, elitism of
@robkhenderson The last line points to the Puritan roots of leftism.
@robkhenderson In alternative: Populist revolt against Western "cognitive elites" is a rebellion against their idiocy/lack of common sense on such issues as: climatism/energy, "migration", gender roles vs trad family, freedom of speech & free market economy, geopolitical suicidal empathy, etc.
@robkhenderson Response: "There are only 3 certainties in life: death, taxes, and left-wing progressives intellectually pleasuring themselves themselves in public—like a cat that sits way too close to you while proudly grooming itself, leg flung in the air, purring creepily."
@robkhenderson Gut check everything.
@robkhenderson 'Intensifying the features of the modern world that impose the greatest burdens of self-inhibition on individuals.'
@robkhenderson "There is a well-known bug in our pattern-detection system that causes us to vastly overestimate the effectiveness of punishment at motivating behavioural change in others" Sadly true but workarounds exist Gibbets aside, half the reason for a Mars Colony is Penal Transportation
@robkhenderson AKA bureaucracy
@robkhenderson How silly. It is a "rebellion" against The Left. Now the "cognitive elite" have pushed Leftism for a tremendous amount of time, so it is fair to mix the two.
@robkhenderson This is partly what is happening, but there is also an enormous crisis of overproduction among the cognitive elites themselves. This is where the populist leadership is increasingly being drawn from.
@robkhenderson The increasing complexity of the systems required to navigate what should be simple transactions and processes is draining, requires a transfer of mental energy from focused and relevant information and attention towards what should be mundane and arbitrary tasks.
@robkhenderson Dumb & dumber vs the royal tenenbaums 🤣
@robkhenderson Is living life analytical processing? I guess I don't understand the complaint here.
@robkhenderson I'd refine the target further to the technical cognitive elite. The defining problem of modernity isn't the cognitive cost it imposes, but the systematic elimination of opportunities to direct cognition to the social environment. It's aggressive selection for suicidal misanthropy
@robkhenderson Interesting food for thought. Builds on ideas from Coming Apart, quite a while ago. The cognitive elite and the others share completely different values, and so are irrevocably diverging in all areas of life. God these comments here are retarded. Ban all social media.
@robkhenderson No they are rebelling against economic elites
@robkhenderson “To the extent that it [the left] favours progress” is doing a lot of work here.
@robkhenderson "Elites" in the sense of IQ 110 or so, yes. If you're not top 25% IQ & not a protected class, modern society is a nightmare.
@robkhenderson "The view that Kahneman was popularizing is known as dual-process theory in psychology". 'The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function'. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald
@robkhenderson An increible amount of mental energy in modern society is spent defending against scams/fraud. From the individual level (credit card interest rates) to organizational level (medical billing) our society is built on legally taking advantage of the gullible, naïve, and stupid.