The greatest threat to humanity was and always will be the midwits.

Unfortunately, this includes 98% of modern scientists.

True scientific savants like the Newton's & Tesla's of the world understood that there was a difference between the study of matter, and the study of what matters.

The former is empirical in nature, and progressive. You're always improving, adapting, refining, deconstructing and evolving.

The latter is Lindy and timeless. The most important principles of life rarely change. Dominic Venner's definition of tradition comes to mind here:

"Tradition is not the past, but that which does not pass"

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Trying to apply methodologies from the former onto the latter is not only stupid, but will yield sub-par results. Look no further than the lockdowns and transgenderism.

Likewise, applying methodologies of the latter onto the former doesn't work well. See the tribes of aborigines who still think the world was created by a rainbow snake.

There is a middle way, or more accurately put - a synthesis between both approaches - that requires knowing which questions are best answered (or even asked) in which broad domain.

People like @ylecun cannot see beyond their own paradigm and they are prisoners to it. Ironically, this leads them into creating new religions and dogmas like "scientism" and keeps them of the wisdom and answers they purport to seek.

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One of the biggest issues we have today is the reverence and authority given to people like this.

He's "chief of AI" at Meta - which people think makes him super smart. So they go ahead believing the dumb things he says (like go get boosted), and then to not feel like they were lied to, double down on their support of these new dogmas and become part of the NPC army.

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Ancient leaders knew where to put the scientists and technologists. And it was not in positions of ultimate authority, UNLESS they were men like Aristotle who could weave the two dimensions. 

And even then, it was Alexander who ruled, not Aristotle - and Aristotle today is only known thanks to the spirit and conquest of Alexander.


Something to think about....


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