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You are assuming your lack of agency extends to people much higher than you in society, without evidence and against my experience (leaders in organizations have different views --…

High-pay or high-reputation jobs where the employer can be selective (FAANG, quant finance) seem to test for high IQ with interview "puzzles" (computer science puzzles of course). …

It is a religion, nothing "faux" about it. It fills the same needs, and uses the same mechanisms within the human mind as more traditional religion. It is also completely bonkers, …

Chesterton's fence. You removed it, and now it's up to you to prove that you knew what your were doing.

Unworthy people get into positions of authority all the time in a soft world. Peace-time generals, etc. People unworthy of power tend to run away from danger, and the worthy are wi…