Philippe Lemoine @phl43, 9:30ish AM MST:
It’s amazing that, by randomly picking 15 people on Twitter among those I follow (excluding perhaps those I follow out of anthropological interest), I could put together a team that would be far more effective than basically any Western government and it wouldn’t even be close.
Fine then. Assemble your committee of HBD Chick, Bret Weinstein, Bo Winegard, and whatever other intellectual dorks you netted in your dark web. Make your commands. Who do you call to carry them out. Not just the usual chains-of-command; also the people in that informal network Who Know People.
This is why some of us talk about "midwits". Maybe they have some specialised knowledge. Overall they don't know how to direct authority - they've never been trained for it. Picking 15 of these guys is not all that much different from picking 15 randos from a voter-roll.
Philosopher-kings are good for philosophical debates. They are not (necessarily) good at kinging. In fact, given their starting assumptions that having an IQ and being (more likely) right on the issues justifies their right to a dictatorship, they are going to end up extremely bad at kinging.
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