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View submission: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
Ie: literally and symbolically, the functioning of a teenager.
Comment by dweezil22 at 19/01/2025 at 17:25 UTC
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I'm a software engineer and a great way for me to lose some respect for fellow engineers is an embrace of libertarianism (which is also super common).
There is this anti-pattern in software, basically a variant of the Dunning-Kruger, where an arrogant engineer confronts a system that they think is overcomplicated, "This is dumb. I'll fix it!" and they start rewriting it from scratch. "Oh I didn't think about that..." they say 100 times as they slowly just rebuild the old system, warts and all. If we're lucky they admit defeat, if we're unlucky they launch a new "modern" system that has more holes in it than the old one. 1/10,000 times they really did do the whole thing thoughtfully and we end up with a utopian new system that is legit better (nothing is free, that system probably took 10x the resources than then doomed "simple" one the one guy was gonna build).
This is libertarianism. SWE's know that rules have side effects, so we're skeptical of any laws. But we should also know that the world is complicated with 1000s of edge cases and behaviors that are extremely difficult to model. If we fail to look deeper we might forget that taxes pay for trash services that cleanup trash which prevent bears from invading the town[1].
Comment by GutsAndBlackStufff at 19/01/2025 at 15:33 UTC
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Considering the movement boils down to lowering the age of consent….