Thanks for the reference to late stage bureaucracy! The technocrats have tried to address the point you make here: "It’s in bureaucrats’ interests to substitute measures of activity—justified by stated intent or purpose—for measured outcomes and effectiveness. Note how the bureaucratised academy substitutes things easily measured—total number of publications, say—for something actually useful."
They do this by differentiating measures of performance (what you're calling measures of activity) from measures of effectiveness. Every initiative these days is supposed to have both clearly delineated. Now, in a bureaucracy there are few if any incentives for the measures of effectiveness to actually BE such...
The expansion of bureaucracy and hoarding of authority includes bureaucrats managing the grievances of their subordinates, and then stoking the market for their own services. I've written elsewhere how this fosters a moral dependence on authority characteristic of victimhood culture: https://jasonmanning.substack.com/p/moral-cultures-4-moral-dependence
Woke as the Official Religion of Bureaucracy means tens of millions depend on it for livelihood and it being government their entire life is people like them.
We aren’t talking our way or voting our way out of This Jonestown at National and Global scale.
LLM aka ChatGPT (misnamed AI) can do most of this in 1/278th time, but that’s tens of millions that would have to work, so NO.
Thanks for telling us what we already know, however.
We need to talk about your approach of challenging them;
You the retired Finance lawyer are set, perhaps Lorenzo is too;
Meanwhile, every time one of you shoots your mouth off the system retaliates against the Commons. That’s why when Karen voted wrong in America and complained to the school board about playing doctor (sex education aka grooming) the system escalated to Dr. Mengele.
(Fiendish sex transition operations on children).
So they’re serious, you just draw heat on the rest of us. So seriously - act, or be silent.
As we say in America;
Democrats Kill
Republicans talk.
The Democrats are serious, you aren’t, stop inviting retaliation.
I seem to see across the waves that the same or worse applies in England and Europe.
STFU until you’re as serious as the Democrats. I realize you’re in England, that parts of it and Germany are beginning to resemble Detroit just confirms you’re in a Democratic run location, don’t want to hear about Labor or conservatives or the rest. If you look like Detroit ....welcome to America.
> The stronger reality tests are, the more insulated from error pathologies is any given system.
There's something to be said for applying this lesson of yours (which to me feels central to everything you write) across domains. But aren't there exceptions to the rule where untested claims literally become a new social reality?
For example, when everyone believes the value of a stock will rise, the stock's value will rise. In such an instance belief creates reality, and anyone with some prescience regarding the trend can purchase the stock early and make money. Indeed, this game of trying to guess trends in social reality is the entire point of day trading.
Obviously when systems like that become completely untethered from reality, we end up with market crashes. But there are some systems where there is no reality to become untethered from.
For an example here, consider language. I insist on pronouncing the "h" in words "why" or "where," and loathe the common confusion between "lie" and "lay" enough to argue with unrelated people about it. But words ultimately mean what they are used to mean, and but the day is fast approaching when I will have to bite my tongue and live with what has happened to spoken English. Already I've experienced a small crowd of people shouting at me that "I will lay down over there" is correct, and it took almost five minutes with multiple appeals to dictionaries before the crowd agreed I was right (and made a series of private determinations that they didn't care and were going to speak English their way). Though things may be a bit better for you Down Under, here in rural America I doubt that I will be lucky enough to receive a second warning.
Thanks for the reference to late stage bureaucracy! The technocrats have tried to address the point you make here: "It’s in bureaucrats’ interests to substitute measures of activity—justified by stated intent or purpose—for measured outcomes and effectiveness. Note how the bureaucratised academy substitutes things easily measured—total number of publications, say—for something actually useful."
They do this by differentiating measures of performance (what you're calling measures of activity) from measures of effectiveness. Every initiative these days is supposed to have both clearly delineated. Now, in a bureaucracy there are few if any incentives for the measures of effectiveness to actually BE such...
The expansion of bureaucracy and hoarding of authority includes bureaucrats managing the grievances of their subordinates, and then stoking the market for their own services. I've written elsewhere how this fosters a moral dependence on authority characteristic of victimhood culture: https://jasonmanning.substack.com/p/moral-cultures-4-moral-dependence
Woke as the Official Religion of Bureaucracy means tens of millions depend on it for livelihood and it being government their entire life is people like them.
We aren’t talking our way or voting our way out of This Jonestown at National and Global scale.
LLM aka ChatGPT (misnamed AI) can do most of this in 1/278th time, but that’s tens of millions that would have to work, so NO.
Thanks for telling us what we already know, however.
We need to talk about your approach of challenging them;
You the retired Finance lawyer are set, perhaps Lorenzo is too;
Meanwhile, every time one of you shoots your mouth off the system retaliates against the Commons. That’s why when Karen voted wrong in America and complained to the school board about playing doctor (sex education aka grooming) the system escalated to Dr. Mengele.
(Fiendish sex transition operations on children).
So they’re serious, you just draw heat on the rest of us. So seriously - act, or be silent.
As we say in America;
Democrats Kill
Republicans talk.
The Democrats are serious, you aren’t, stop inviting retaliation.
I seem to see across the waves that the same or worse applies in England and Europe.
STFU until you’re as serious as the Democrats. I realize you’re in England, that parts of it and Germany are beginning to resemble Detroit just confirms you’re in a Democratic run location, don’t want to hear about Labor or conservatives or the rest. If you look like Detroit ....welcome to America.
Now get as serious as the Democrats or go away.
> The stronger reality tests are, the more insulated from error pathologies is any given system.
There's something to be said for applying this lesson of yours (which to me feels central to everything you write) across domains. But aren't there exceptions to the rule where untested claims literally become a new social reality?
For example, when everyone believes the value of a stock will rise, the stock's value will rise. In such an instance belief creates reality, and anyone with some prescience regarding the trend can purchase the stock early and make money. Indeed, this game of trying to guess trends in social reality is the entire point of day trading.
Obviously when systems like that become completely untethered from reality, we end up with market crashes. But there are some systems where there is no reality to become untethered from.
For an example here, consider language. I insist on pronouncing the "h" in words "why" or "where," and loathe the common confusion between "lie" and "lay" enough to argue with unrelated people about it. But words ultimately mean what they are used to mean, and but the day is fast approaching when I will have to bite my tongue and live with what has happened to spoken English. Already I've experienced a small crowd of people shouting at me that "I will lay down over there" is correct, and it took almost five minutes with multiple appeals to dictionaries before the crowd agreed I was right (and made a series of private determinations that they didn't care and were going to speak English their way). Though things may be a bit better for you Down Under, here in rural America I doubt that I will be lucky enough to receive a second warning.