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Why do so many smart people enjoy the idea of 'technocracy'?

I don't get it. It just seems like basically a heavy handed ...
Submissive private investor public bath
  07/09/13
they all imagine they'll be on the ruling committee
copper passionate bawdyhouse
  07/09/13
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Supple Stage Candlestick Maker
  11/22/17
Irrational deference to "science" and a misunderst...
pearly vigorous plaza
  11/22/17
It's "Scientisim" - the idea that models that work...
federal histrionic old irish cottage
  11/22/17


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Date: July 9th, 2013 5:57 PM
Author: Submissive private investor public bath

I don't get it. It just seems like basically a heavy handed government that decides everything by committee, and downplays the importance of the enterprising upstart.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2304454&forum_id=2#23577340)



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Date: July 9th, 2013 5:57 PM
Author: copper passionate bawdyhouse

they all imagine they'll be on the ruling committee

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2304454&forum_id=2#23577345)



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Date: November 22nd, 2017 7:50 AM
Author: Supple Stage Candlestick Maker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2304454&forum_id=2#34746733)



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Date: November 22nd, 2017 7:52 AM
Author: pearly vigorous plaza

Irrational deference to "science" and a misunderstanding of its utility vis a vis social systems; trendy "algorithmic" panacea theories; desire to surrender to something greater and more perfect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2304454&forum_id=2#34746743)



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Date: November 22nd, 2017 7:58 AM
Author: federal histrionic old irish cottage

It's "Scientisim" - the idea that models that work for determinate processes, as in classical Newtonian physics, must perforce work for 'social science.' One could call it prestige infection: physics has been so successful and prestigious, everyone from economists to psychologists to political scientists want to show they're DOING SCIENCE and SERIOUS BIZ by aping it, even if its methods ill-fit.

Also, as noted, that intellectual heritage of faux-prestige gives cover for psychopaths -- Stalin types -- to capture and wield power. So in a sense you've got a baptist and bootleggers coalition, but instead of baptists it's sanctimonious deluded libs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2304454&forum_id=2#34746755)