[small_mind]

To further boil down what the article tries to distill, but never explicitly states as a revealed conclusion: Success requires agency. The positive outcomes must be recognized and selected for, to produce gains.

Correct. We live in a world where sentient intelligence persists upon a substrate of inert, newtonian determinism. Life, itself, stands bound by gravity, upon a rock floating in space. So where’s the investment tactics?

Meanwhile, mysogyny as a personality flaw of the author would not invalidate the merit of any ideas expressed into a vacuum devoid of mysogyny. As adults, individuals should be capable of reading and digesting a non-inflamatory article, if its ideas have merit, and it doesn’t seek emotional agitation.

You should be able to read an article, and ignore the name of the author. Ask yourself: If it were the same article written under a pseudonym, could it still be found valuable?

[jimnotgym]

That sounds so logical, but the truth is that reputation is a useful time saver. I don't have time to read the vast majority of what is written in the world, why should I make time to read stuff written by someone who I know is an arrogant ass?

[api]

If that's it, it's not exactly a novel idea.

Are there actually people who argue that brute trial and error with nothing else in play can yield structured knowledge? Note that biological evolution doesn't count because it is not mere trial and error.