Ray

WISDOM & ADAPTABILITY How our entropic elite thinkers have neither. This isn't some magnificent revelation neither: just read or listen to what @ericweinstein has said about string theory. Our universities have been undermining our civilization. It'd be wise for our current, unworthy of forgiveness, intellectual class to internalize the fact that, historically, science advances with the death of theory holders; and we're looking to make a substantive leap in all the sciences in the next few years. We can be the first generation to correct errors in the works of living scientists whilst they still breath or we can advance science upon their deaths like history seems to prefer. The timeline matters here, not the theorists. Lying to the public, defrauding students, indoctrinating peons, abusing asymmetric economic advantages, road-blocking and gatekeeping incredible advances where they upset the criminal hierarchical order of expertise, etc. These crimes warrant much harsher punishment than simply losing your positions of influence. Perhaps integrate something new and usher in a golden age with the rest of us doing the hard work. Tenure isn't going to bring you even a tenuous peace but war. Informational usefulness: information > knowledge > knowhow > wisdom We as a thinking species have devolved over the last 150-250 years. It can be seen in our brain sizes; it can be seen in our average IQs; it can be seen in the lack of generalization of skills; it can be seen in our life trajectories and our mental & physical outcomes. We are proposing an alternative to the civilizational shit-test being undergone by universalist globalist feminine agents of consensus building; @bierlingm calls this the bit-test: are you a 0 or a 1. Where if you're short of one, your multiplier effects on effort, output, and value will always be negative. We require a particular amount of knowhow for one to operate at anything larger than familial scale. Governance & statecraft are elevated positions, merit beyond average must be obtained to participate. We have made a horrid shift backwards through the chain of understanding undermining our certainty in good action. We have moved from seeking wisdom and lauding the wise; to collecting bits of information and aweing at data and data collections. Our present intellectual class is knowledgeable but that's it; it doesn't matter if they are the most knowledgeable(debatable) because knowledge falls short of optimal use of information when applied to human affairs. Knowledge is just beyond information in its usefulness; it's information ordered; but it's short of knowhow. Information requires propositional knowing, knowledge requires procedural knowing, knowhow requires perspectival knowing, and wisdom requires participatory knowing to be of use. Our intellectuals haven't been participating with the rest of us for over a century. They occupy the ivory towers and form their world-view from there and from there the world looks and behaves differently than it does from down here, on the ground. They're too divorced from nature's feedback to be molded into beings that operate pro-socially with average humans at human scale for the benefit of community and nation. There's a mismatch between understanding what could happen and what would happen given the agents we've got under particular scenarios. There's a lot of projecting the minds of an academic into the bodies of average humans, this is an error borne out in the entropic elite's operational suggestions. I'd like to illuminate this issue from another angle. The vast majority of humans with IQ above 130 massively prefer other IQ 130 peoples over everybody else. We see this in the bi-furcation of our species, we see this bi-furcation in our abuse elites class. We see this ethic eroding community everywhere. The smart people are being duped by comfort because optimal discomfort is foreign to them. We are talking about changing the minds of luxuritarians, globalists, and cosmopolitans, and we typically do so without first stripping them of their asymmetries in opportunity and economic maneuverability. Wisdom is the application of knowhow with optimal timing. Which of the entropic elite demonstrates understanding this? Which present day leader doesn't first appeal to the consensus of the group in democratic fashion; I can't think of any. Representatives are not leaders. Influencers can only lead their audience in circles because the audience shares in the leadership role via the relinquishing of attention or not. Series in certainty: uncertain > faith > belief > trust > confidence > certainty. Wise people are confident in their actions. The more wise one is the more certain one is of choosing and following through with operations that create better outcomes that the present is affording for. Our entropic elites don't have the wisdom to create the systems that afford the agents the option vectors for the integration, growth, & collection of agency, nor the transcendent path toward sovereignty. We ca no longer be atomized individuals, with our advanced technologies the lack of wisdom in this pursuit is killing us. We must be sovereigns. We're sovereigntarians. We don't eschew ownership, we don't pass blame, we don't skirt liability, we don't dishonor warranty, & we don't externalize costs; this is the only way to be honorable; this is the only path to present as noble. No true intellectual is captured. Not by politics, not by economics, not by social incentive. Free from capture is a hallmark of intellectual capacity. Intellectuals are not open to everything; open minds are only good to shut on things. Maintaining humility when you're confident is an error in operation. If you are certainly right, inserting doubt is a disservice to the truth. Wisdom is the pursuit of transcendent pro-social adaptation; where the actions chosen create value across the market arenas of interaction, increasing both net capital and the capacity of the agents with-in for work. We've gotten lazy. As peoples of the world; we're lackadaisical about loving one another. We're misguided about expressing love at scale. The most loving course of action at scale is the pursuit of the natural law of reciprocity. We are to raise peoples & individuals into the capacity for reciprocal exchange, where falling short of that capacity has peoples or individuals labelled as dependents requiring forbearance and stewardship to transcend limitations. Adaptation to natural law is fitness. Where perceived reality and our systems deviate from relaying natural law we manifest unfitness. Our ruling class is unfit. We must rotate them out; we must turn them over. This next decade must see a great turning. A revolution. If humanity doesn't do an about-face we're bound fall on it. The truth is enough; no more lies.