CunnyFunt
26d ago
Between this and the Bateman pasta, the Motte is becoming a real cultural juggernaut!
CunnyFunt
26d ago
I was torn between that and the bike cuck meme, glad to hear I'm not the only one!
CunnyFunt
27d ago
This seems rather different from raiding a lost-and-found while pretending to be the rightful owner.
CunnyFunt
27d ago
I would argue that's slightly different, since there's no centralized place for you to retrieve your lost item, nor has the finder going there specifically to impersonate you to take your item.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
And everyone clapped and a man came up to me and handed me a crisp hundred dollar bill. That man's name? ChatGPTeinstein.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
But more importantly, I feel more strongly that the painting of universities as institutions of liberal indoctrination deny entire cohorts of students their own agency in developing political beliefs
It's no secret that students are allowed "agency" to develop a very specific set of beliefs. Believe Women, No Human Is Illegal, ACAB, Black Lives Matter, Trans Women Are Women - funny how this liberalism-afforded agency only extends to things left of center. Additionally, these beliefs are constantly proselytized in an "everything not forbidden is mandatory" fashion.
I would say [the Long March Through Institutions] also qualifies as a conspiracy theory.
I'm not sure how it can be both, so I'll ask for clarification of what you mean. As for the "natural occurrences" of left-liberalism based on incentives - what is the source of those incentives? Did they just change on their own in the 20th century, or, perhaps, it occurred because the composition of the incentive makers was changed by putting a thumb on the scale? Ayers and Kaczynski received wildly different treatments for some reason.
CunnyFunt
1mo ago
I would say The Long March Through Institutions qualifies as a strategy.
Is it because people in those institutions, or that those institutions produce, are generally liberal?
This is just a rephrasing of "reality has a liberal bias", the veracity of which is being tested now. Maybe they wouldn't have produced so many adherents of the regressive left if Ayers and his fellow terrorists received tenure in prison, rather than academia?
CunnyFunt
2mo ago
Maybe I'm a philistine but I found the music boring and my takeaway was that Britton was doing a poor retelling of Nabokov.
CunnyFunt
2mo ago
the Magic Flute was a blasphemous production sung in German as opposed to the proper Italian and staged in a common theater
I would love to read your review of Death in Venice.
CunnyFunt
2mo ago
You are absolutely correct! But parachutes have been proven to work in practice, while everything about gender affirming surgery is left to the future, a la "they would killed themselves otherwise".
If Junior says he's Napoleon, he is clearly in need of help. But if he says he's Napoleonette, he's stunning and brave. Can he/she/they buy a pack of cigarettes?
CunnyFunt
3mo ago
For the out of touch among us, what's the next phase after Children of Bodom and Tarja Turunen?
CunnyFunt
3mo ago
once they have achieved their goals, become indistinguishable from a Peter. Or their successors inevitably do
That's an interesting observation. Do you think it's just a matter of exceptional people being the exception and shirtsleeves-to-shirtsleeves the best we can do?
CunnyFunt
3mo ago
It's a fully general argument that usually only gets deployed in one direction. I'm happy to see how the gander likes it.
CunnyFunt
4mo ago
You don't need to read reports, outsmarting the giga-quants at hedge funds isn't about doing more work or being smarter than them, it's just about deducing the right thesis from having the right vibes. The numbers are already priced in, vibes are where the alpha is.
Heavily seconded. My best gains have been in stocks from companies whose business I have known and occasionally patronised over a half-decade.
CunnyFunt
4mo ago
Easy! First, let's inroduce a national artifact that everyone "should" have. Next, let's add penalty modifiers to civilian life for not carrying said artifact. Finally, since this isn't legally mandated (nor guaranteed), start imposing conditions for revokation.
CunnyFunt
4mo ago
Improving elections integrity, for one thing.
Disparate impact doctrine would like a word. How would this be anything other than a bludgeon against the outgroup in either direction, depending on who has the billy club in hand?
CunnyFunt
5mo ago
The Parker Principle seems to be a rehash of the old "competent asshole" trope, which the last generation of HR has worked tirelessly to discredit and discourage. To wit:
Competence compensates for lack of compliance in other areas. Organizations don't care that Parker says lewd remarks or doesn't attend mandatory meetings if he's helping them reach their bottom line, whether that's related to money, fame, or some other goal. They may even pave the road for him and offer a new car.
This longer exists, except maybe for the cream of the crop of quants (maybe @BurdensomeCount can chime in on how life is as a Parker). I wholeheartedly agree that there is no shortage of people rising to the top of the corporations because they are better at "being in a corporation" than "accomplishing [goal of corporation]", but what's the solution here?
If Peters are so much worse for corporations than Parkers, why can't Parkers run circles about them? Shouldn't there be a species of Parker that is singlemindedly devoted to Machiavellianism just as much as the Parkers you describe are devoted to their respective crafts? Or do they get their names changed to Peters once they realize that the real money is in climbing the hierarchy? In that case, this seems like a problem of incentives that can't be solved by top-down mandates, only by a change in corporate culture/structure.
The remedy you propose is just more technocracy, which you're already acknowledging as having failed us thus far - if the hiring and/or promotion process is broken to the point where Peters are promoted beyond their competence ceiling, why would this same firm be able to put together a hiring/promo committee that's any more competent than the current performance of the firm, and not going to get instantly gamed by Peters? How would they staff them with hyperfocused Parkers to weed out all the Peters that have already excelled at the game and risen to the top? I suppose we can hire quickly and fire the bottom 10% or so on an annual basis, but make sure we keep a banner of principles of leadership hanging somewhere to make sure that everyone knows where their North Star is, but that hasn't worked out too well thus far. If the people you're trying to get rid of have the unifying characteristic of being able to game corporate and regulatory systems, how can you (as a Parker, presumably) hope to beat them at their own game? You can't solve a social problem with technology (I think).
Testing for potential Peters when they are still a Parker is simple
But why would the Parkers subject themselves to this? "Oh, we let you get away with whatever you want, but now if you want more money we also want to see how well you can adhere to the latest HR handbook. Oh, and there's also a circular firing squad comprised of all the people that were better at politics and worse at working than you that will have final veto on your promotion." The Parkers would just leave for a less onerous firm that just gives compensation for competence and lets the Peters go to HR training.
Wouldn't it be even better to watch the cyclist running a red get justifiably mowed down by a car taking its rightful green?
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