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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Gwern's turn to "what if I just make people believe I won at pinball?" also come back to their idea that the smartest being is the best manipulator, even though some excellent manipulators like Trump don't have a lot of logical-analytical intelligence, and some brilliant thinkers like John Nash get into a fight with the inside of their own head and lose. It also reminds me of how they love markets in theory but are not interested in starting a business which would compete with other businesses.
Ironically I think it's also been discussed most frequently within Rationalist circles that these types of intelligence aren't often correlated. I'm not going to chase down links right now because doing an SSC archive exploration requires more mental fortitude than I currently possess, but I distinctly remember that a recurring theme was "if nerds are so smart why don't they rule the world?" In my less cynical days I had assumed that his confusion on this point was largely rhetorical, intended to illustrate some part of whatever point was buried in the beigeness. Now it seems like I was falling victim to the ability to project whatever tangentially-related thesis you want onto the essay and find supporting arguments because of how badly it's written.