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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 ...
Wine Office Rigpig
  07/09/13
they all imagine they'll be on the ruling committee
Crimson business firm becky
  07/09/13
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blue stimulating locus juggernaut
  11/22/17
Irrational deference to "science" and a misunderst...
Jet corn cake
  11/22/17
It's "Scientisim" - the idea that models that work...
Erotic Idea He Suggested Stead
  11/22/17


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Date: July 9th, 2013 5:57 PM
Author: Wine Office Rigpig

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: Crimson business firm becky

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: blue stimulating locus juggernaut



(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: Jet corn cake

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: Erotic Idea He Suggested Stead

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)