There is no agreed-upon meaning of the word "capitalism", and nowadays you should not trust anyone who uses the *word itself*; they are not trying to help you think clearly. Knowledgeable helpful people will talk about "market prices" or use other words that mean things.
(https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1261725491607662594?s=19)
posted on May 16, 2020 06:32 PM by
u/completely-ineffable
its just astounding that The Market, the most powerful information processor in the universe has delivered to us this incredible insight about words that mean things
I’m convinced of the same thing, but for anyone who talks about “markets”
Rationalism is when you believe the people who use the right phrases, almost like magic spells or something
Don’t they have like a scheduled monthly griping about shibboleths?
“I don’t read books and therefore everyone else is dumb” is a very rationalist take.
Massive respect for the sheer audacity Yud has complaining that other people use words vaguely
Brave of yud to become anti Elon Musk
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and THE MARKET
There is no agreed upon meaning of “feudalism”. Knowledgeable people will instead talk about “serf lord relations”
There is no agreed upon meaning of “pornography”. Knowledgeable people will instead talk about “videos of penises”
There is no agreed upon meaning of “Forest”. Knowledgeable people will instead talk about “collections of individual trees”
War is peace, freedom is slavery!!
This word is meaningless because its meaning is inconvenient to me!!!
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First piece is true, but we shouldn’t act like “market” is any more solid. The solution isn’t to stop talking about it, the solution is just to define your axioms better
There’s no agreed-upon definition because not everyone has read Marx’s objectively correct definition.
Someone tweet this at Yud for me.
Capitalism? Don’t blush folks, it’s nothin’ to be ashamed of.
The neverending fixation on specifics is the best possible way to avoid ever having to discuss anything difficult or defend your worldview. People aren’t granular experts on everything (nor should they be) – that doesn’t mean they can’t have thoughts or opinions.
I absolutely despise the idea that in order to criticize something, you must have detailed plans on how to fix every aspect of it. That’s jordan Peterson’s whole shtick. And it does exactly what it’s intended to do: keeps the power in the hands of the existing establishment – they know what they’re doing, and we simply wouldn’t understand, so we should just not worry our pretty heads.
I don’t disagree with his first statement, but how is “market prices” any more specific?
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