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I'm genuinely curious: how do you think reducing aggregate brainpower could lead to better outcomes?
by patrickdavey 1y ago
I'm genuinely curious: how do you think reducing aggregate brainpower could lead to better outcomes?
- levzettelin 1y agoIf you primarily reduce the brainpower of scammers, like Vivek Ramaswamy, I think that would help, even if it reduces overall brainpower.
- hunglee2 1y agobeing smarter doesn't always lead to better decision making - many people overly intellectualise a problem and fail to move to action. Trump is definitely action oriented, a lot of it really dumb, but it does alter the external conditions which may produce better outcomes.
- hshdhdhj4444 1y agoTrue. Because clearly the problem for China the last few decades has been a failure to move to action. The Chinese need to start installing a whole dumber bunch of people to lead their country so their leaders are more action oriented.
- hunglee2 1y agoChina doesn't have a leadership problem atm, though certainly has had its fair share of anti-intellectual leaders. Trump's actions are very familiar to Chinese people, especially ones who have been educated on the excesses of Maoism. That said, point of post is - will Trump anti-intellectualism 'work', where work = benefiting America. Ostensibly, the answer looks like 'of course not' but in my view, it is too early to say
- lmpdev 1y agoSigh Brainpower is not a commodity and this discussion is absurd
- tremon 1y agoThat's obvious: the brain is the most energy-intensive organ in the body, so shutting down the brain leads to significant energy savings. The energy saved this way can then be spent on drilling for more oil, and the oil can be burned to power AI datacenters where the real thinking is done.