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Michael Dyson would be another perfect example
I don't like Jordan Peterson but in his debate with himself and Stephen Fry against Dyson and some other, Dyson shows that you can just talk a lot of shit, throw a lot of dust in the air and ultimately move a point nowhere at all, but look smart while doing it.

Perfect example of somebody with 110 IQ being smart enough to use the big words, but not being able to move a discussion anywhere at all. It was fucking painful.
Einstein said it best when if you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough.

It's verbiage like this that makes me just disrespect the entire field of sociology, since it's about 5% actual useful stuff, and 95% pseuds who want the paper that calls them an intellectual, without making any positive contributions to wider knowledge.

This is no idle insult either, since others going as far back as the Sokal affair have found these people just talk total bullshit and if you do it back to them, they think you're a genius and fucking publish it.

A lot of your success in those fields seems to be decided by your innate characteristics and who you can appeal to, rather than objectively measurable information.

freelancer is extremely based and redpilled

i'm hoping rebel galaxy outlaw is a decent successor to it