The closest I’ve come to GUAT is general incompetence as the root cause. Tracing the cause of incompetence brings up… Incompetence. I figure if it’s recursive, it’s probably something we definitely need to focus on. If there’s a more severely recursive cause, I’ve yet to discover it.
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?
The closest I’ve come to GUAT is general incompetence as the root cause. Tracing the cause of incompetence brings up… Incompetence. I figure if it’s recursive, it’s probably something we definitely need to focus on. If there’s a more severely recursive cause, I’ve yet to discover it.
What is GUAT?
Grand Unified Armageddon Theory. :p “What will be the root cause of the end of the world?”
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.