probably the biggest midwit meme the San Francisco class believes is that top tier shape rotators genuinely have better models of complex emergent societal systems than top tier wordcels, but they just can't articulate them as well-- and wordcels are just snakeoil merchants good at selling their bad models completely untrue and anti-lindy if you have interacted with IQ135 engineers you know that if you spawned them in a political powergame (inter-national or intra-national) they'd be rather helpless and lack the necessary intuitions to effectively navigate.......... they also have poor taste and cultural awareness which we have long conceded as crucial for navigating complex adaptive systems they constantly glaze this archetype of the Engineer King/CEO which is kind of weird given it's clearly not much of an archetype at all (engineering has been a relatively low status profession basically always & everywhere until the current iteration of hypercapitalism gave it a modest boost) philosopher kings on the other hand are clearly lindy for a reason do you think every civilization in history of the world has consistently utilized near-exclusively nontechnical wordcel leaders because they were all morons & didn't know any better? if you told an NPC in classical athens why they haven't put the best bridge-builder in charge of the polis he’d look at you like you’re insane