We’re all incompetent compared to the theoretical limits of competence permitted by our current brain architecture. But with a smaller population, the stakes are lower for whatever blunders we do commit (up to a point, of course—there is obviously such a thing as a dangerously low population, but not even Wrongians would claim that we’re close to that boundary).
So, what is the first tier of secondary causes after the root cause of incompetence?
We’re all incompetent compared to the theoretical limits of competence permitted by our current brain architecture. But with a smaller population, the stakes are lower for whatever blunders we do commit (up to a point, of course—there is obviously such a thing as a dangerously low population, but not even Wrongians would claim that we’re close to that boundary).
So, what is the first tier of secondary causes after the root cause of incompetence?
It varies widely, but that is the nature of opinion.