Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
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I've thought about this a lot. The competence crisis is just starting. I worked in public education until recently. The typical high schooler knows how to do absolutely nothing. They are functionally illiterate and innumerate. The only thing they can do is consume media. And they do it all day, every day.
In my brief time teaching I saw there were a few bright ones but they were endlessly hampered by the vast majority of "students" I had. And this was one of the better school districts in my state.
The bright ones are more likely to be captured by neo-Marxist mind poison while in college.
Then even if they escape the mind virus, they'll be competing against and working with diversity hires in the work force.
It seems like the ones coming up are just weaker every year. No offense.
Yup, just wait until all the competent and older people retire and/or die off. Pretty soon you'll be left with mostly diversity hires and people who only know how to count hormone pils.
Sad but true.
My organization just hired on a "very bright, very motivated" 18 year old. Can't operate a copier, a credit card reader is beyond them, and they routinely forget things that they have been taught.
The article captures the essence of the problem quite well, and as Harold says, it is only going to get much, much worse in short order. Though I think there is significant blame by the private sector with exporting production and jobs overseas. The article mentions Boeing but fails to dive into how the use of cheap Indian labor was a major factor in the failure of the 737 Max. A lot of companies are hiring less competent people to increase profits. There are countless Indian programmers being hired whose qualifications are questionable at best and often replacing the white workers who built the systems in the first place.
The most dangerous thing about indian programmers is not that MANY of them buy fake degrees and qualifications.
It is that they always hire other H1B indians. They create ghettos were white people will never be hired again. There is a reason every tech company CEO is Indian and the highest paid race in our country is Indian.
and they're imposing india's values on americans.
What on earth are "india's values"? Hinduism?
The Caste System is completely incompatible with Western values. The whole "you are born into your social class" very obviously conflicts with the Equality/Meritocracy we are all hoping is restored someday.
I have some Indian friends. They are nice people but they look down on people below them and will always favor their countrymen and castemates.
Humans are tribalistic and indian culture lends itself to tribal attitudes -- this shouldn't be a shock.
They're not your friends. They'll sell you out/backstab you/rip you off the second it's convenient or beneficial somehow to themselves. They're only nice so they can see what you got that they want from you.
Actually the only one I would consider a friend has mostly shunned Indian culture. When he was in the states we got into plenty of trouble and he regularly ate beef. I don't think he personally liked the caste system.
Most Indians are hard to be friends with because that cultural barrier is so strong.
Classism, nepotism, cheating, anti-toilet, bobs and vagene, do not redeem.
Good tikka masala though.
Is it shocking to you that India has a different culture than we do?
No . . . I just don't know what you mean by "India's values."
Indians are mercenaries. If they wanted to do anything but make more money they'd be back in India trying to fix Indian problems.
They are replacing all of the competent people with affirmative action and diversity hires and hoping that AI will be good enough in a few years to do all of the work that actually matters.
They are throwing a Hail Mary and hoping AI can catch it on the other side.
If it doesn’t, we will end up like South Africa, and nobody will ever acknowledge that it was a mistake. They will blame the collapse of civilization on racism. It’s all whitey’s fault we don’t have enough power, food, etc.
This is going to happen everywhere in the Western 'world'.
"Multiculturalism and mass-immigration didn't fail. You made it fail!"
I think it's more like they are engineering this in order to have incompetence. They don't want competent advanced society. They want weak people that use fewer resources and that do what they are told.
Companies fear a competent man. I've worked at theme parks where almost everything was run by a handful of techs. If food became automated, those places would only need that handful, and everyone else would become contract workers at best.
So, schools don't teach you to be competent out of fear.
This is already happening in South Africa
Also - Thank Fuck they got rid of their Nukes
The drops were, of course, manufactured in India. Nobody should ever, ever, ever allow something from India to make direct contact with them.
The scary thing is, I have a bottle of eye drops here and there's no indicator of where they were made. Could be next door, could be a third world shithole where they don't wash their hands. As a consumer I should have a right to know these things, but I don't.
One thing that I hated learning during the pandemic was that the US makes basically no medicine. It seems completely insane to have a country that can't make basic medical supplies.
america becoming south africa is Good, Actually.
They won't, which is why we can't just recede from educational institutions, but why we need parallel ones.
Frankly, I don't think the risk of a competence crisis is too great; because while public educational institutions are utter garbage; every single industry is building entirely parallel competence standards, built primarily around education, work experience, and institutional trust.
The problem is that it's so decentralized that no one really knows precisely how to make it into a standardized general education that can be used as a basis. They only know the expertise that their industry, or even only their company, is aware of. As the author points out, one of the wealthiest black business owners in America is focusing heavily on competence.
As the economic system collapses, we will be forced into major deflation, and a lot of the shit from the system will get purged. People will lose their jobs, careers, and businesses; as they should. The question is: how soon? If it's in 30 years, it will be far too late, and we will have already needed a parallel system. If it's this year, we'll have cut our losses.
For the most part, the article is just going over what I've been trying to talk about with the "Social Justice Racket", but I don't normally cover the credential system (because it's kind of implied).
Maybe that's ultimately a good thing. I can foresee a sort of new guild system, in which various industries run their own theoretical/practical instruction led by senior employees during paid apprenticeships, with escalating pay/benefits as practically demonstrated expertise grows.and the apprentice exhibits the skills and temperament to perform well.
The Fabians are pushing towards a guild system; so if we ended up with a guild system, the Universities would be the center of any learning or credentials.
They'll probably just try to make standardized routes the way IT is. Or the way a lot of blue collar jobs do (like Lincoln Electric welding certifications).
That's fucked up. My guild fantasy excludes universities deliberately, given what they've proven themselves to be. Technical experts would be instructed and certified by employees of the industries themselves, with those industries developing annexes dedicated to theoretical instruction relevant to apprenticeships.
It's sort of like the idea of a teaching hospital, but with those hospitals also providing theoretical coursework prior to internships, taking that role away from universities.
Good.
It has to get much worse before it can get better.
We need everyone's foot to the accelerator.
If you're a line worker, you need to be doing the least possible to keep your job.
If you have hiring power, hire incompetents and danger hairs and joggers. You're not going to get on trouble for hiring diversity after all
How's acceleration going in South Africa?
Acceleration is Leftism.
The point is to build a parallel system, to be intentionally useless and incompetent so that you haven't been competent in 15 years, and teach your children to be just as incompetent.
I know what the plan for accelerationism is, but it doesn't work. That's not how these things tend to go, and Leftists can accelerate faster than you can. In fact, the entire purpose of Leftism is accelerationism to the Communist utopia.
Cambodia killed 20% of it's population in 5 years accelerating to True Communism. No one can keep up with that, except maybe the fucking Mongols.
The theory behind accelerationism is "I hate my dad and I'm a retard".
More and more systems will be ran by AI. That’s not a recipe for disaster at all.