Midwit


Work in progress:
== Midwit in the decile scale ==
Urban Dictionary<ref>https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mid</ref> noted men are "mid" if they are rated between 4 and 7 on the [[decile scale]], corresponding to the 80th to 95th percentile<ref>https://goldvalueideas.com/2021/03/17/sex-differences-in-romantic-selectiveness/</ref> Note: it is 50th to 85th percentile if they are women.

For reference, here is the [[Decile]] table form of the GVI Findings (2 point average difference between male and female):
{| class="wikitable"
!Decile Rating!!1!! 2!!3!!4!!5!!6!!7!!8!!9
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|Male Percentile||28||'''50'''||70||80||85||'''90'''||95||98||99
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|Female Percentile||10||20||34||'''48'''||65||76||85||'''90'''||96
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{| class="wikitable"
!Percentile!!10!!20!!30!!40!!50!!60!!70!!80!!90
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|Male Decile||0.4||0.8||1||1.5||'''2'''||2.4||3||'''4.2'''||5.8
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|Female Decile ||1||'''2'''||2.8||3.5 ||'''4'''||4.6||5.5|| 6.4||7.8
|}
== Midwit in The Office==
Within the [[Dominance hierarchy]] the Midwit is the center protecting the [[Chad]] from the [[Subfive]] through blaming others. 
{| class="wikitable"
!Rao's Classification<ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ </ref><ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/04/14/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development/</ref>!!Loser (Dimwit)!!Clueless (Midwit)!!Sociopath (Topwit)
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|Complacency|| trapped in divide-and-conquer, cannot deny||Low in intention, trapped in protective system against cluelessness || high with plausible deniability for all outcomes
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|Modes of Success||Loser Culture (Gemeinschaft or "Community")||"Hanlon Dodges"<ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/10/14/the-gervais-principle-v-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose/</ref> (Malice as Incompetence)||Futile Bureaucracy (Gesellschaft or "Civil Society")
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|Reactions||Appropriate but against best interests||Inappropriate but interest-agnostic ||Appropriate in best interests
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|Distortions||Rewards and penalties||Reality||Metaphysics of human life
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|Humor<ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/14/the-gervais-principle-iv-wonderful-human-beings/</ref>||Democratic social validation & "social capital" ||Status-enforcing self-deprecation OR oneupmanship||General public as unaware victims through button-pushing
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|Forms of Communication<ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-ii-posturetalk-powertalk-babytalk-and-gametalk/</ref>||GameTalk ("Circlejerk") ||PostureTalk ("Virtue Signaling")||PowerTalk (Ruthless Info Gathering)
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|Tempo<ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/09/24/strategy-tactics/</ref>||Slow (lazy & bad)||Fast (hasty & acceptable)||Moderate (organized & good)
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|Karate<ref>https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1082768492036648961</ref>||Kihon Dousa (routines)||Kihon Kumite (dead sparring)||Kata (form) + Jissen Kumite (live sparring)
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|Desires<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/vgr/status/1531876153723858946</ref>
| Pain Relief
|Having Agency
|Narrative of Reality
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|'''Other Authors'''
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|Bauer's Title<ref>https://thecontextofthings.com/2021/01/25/the-three-tiers-of-work-and-life/</ref>||Disposable Rank-and-file Workers||Stagnant Middle Management||Decision Making Executives & Senior Management
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|Three Ladders Theory<ref>https://indiepf.com/michael-o-churchs-theory-of-3-class-ladders-in-america-archive/</ref>||Physical Wealth||Prestinge & Idealism||Social Power
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|Counterelite Theory<ref>http://www.zzzptm.com/lss-002.html</ref>||Peasant revolts repressed by a few lords||Bloody firing squads against the whole regime||Few executions, lots of exiles or house arrests
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|Belief Attachment<ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/02/the-theory-of-narrative-selection/</ref>||Detail & Coherent Truths||Absurd and Interesting||Logical Heterodoxy
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|Stratigraphy Theory<ref>http://charman-anderson.com/2010/02/04/the-impenetrable-layer-of-suck/</ref>||Porous Limestone, Info-to-Social||Impervious Clay, Social Fissures||Solid Sandstone, Info slides down
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|Frank Leong<ref>https://nextchapterconsulting.ca/2021/10/31/are-you-a-pedestrian-passenger-or-pilot/</ref>||Pedestrian (Rule Conscious)|| Passenger (Aspiration without Realization)||Pilot (Compelling Goals) 
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== Midwit Lifestyle==
The Midwit Lifestyle can often be equated to the slang "Soulless Bugmen"<ref>https://hackernoon.com/on-the-infestation-of-small-souled-bugmen-6561ae922e07</ref><ref>https://theunlikelyno.com/2018/07/14/the-exterminator-a-critique-of-the-bugman
https://theunlikelyno.com/2018/07/20/the-exterminator-a-critique-of-the-bugman-pt-2 </ref>, which encompasses the following traits.
* Middle class with no survival skills
*Oversocialized through college education and "civil society", with no desire for starting a family or reproduce
*Lives in either cramped apartments or atomizing suburbs (neither rural nor aristocratic)
*Ultra-processed luxury diets and an "efficient" atomized lifestyle
*Sports voyeurism as a complement to lack of physical activity
*Bullshit Jobs (vapid corporate jobs) and depersonalizing corporate loyalty leading to chronic stress and an early death
*Hollowed out philosophy and honor, lack of inquisitiveness and skepticism, and blindness of institutional corruption
*Identity based on trends and media binging, with strong susceptibility of marketing, echoing of the pretentious and mainstream diluted infantilized culture
*Blind to transcendental art, mindfulness, history, nature, purpose, and passion
*Social media as public square, with righteous posturing, ideological rhetoric and newspeak for "Social Justice" and "Progress"
*Intellectual cowardice as terrified of wrongthink and ostracization, confrontation, and coping through jokes and vanity
The Midwit Lifestyle can be reduced to the following table with multiple sources:
{| class="wikitable"
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!DimWit
!MidWit 
!TopWit
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|JOB<ref name=":0">https://dwarkeshpatel.com/barbell-strategies/</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">https://alima.substack.com/p/midwits-and-the-office</ref><ref name=":3">https://sachink.substack.com/midwits-and-meta-contrarianism</ref>
|Minimal Duties, Humble Mediocre, "Overemployment"<ref>https://overemployed.com/</ref>
|Fake work, Bad "Side Projects", Corporate Posturing
|Skill Building, Research, Networking, Startup
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|INTELLIGENCE<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />
|Dumb & Apathetic
|Inferiority Complex & Dumb Egoism<ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/04/14/the-gervais-principle-iii-the-curse-of-development/</ref>
|Smart Humility
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|'''Dwarkesh Patel<ref name=":0" />'''
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|Dating||Tinder and "LMS" "maxxing"||Lazy Profiles & Usage||Dedicate real time on relationships
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|Meditation||Not meditating||"20 minutes a day"||10 days a year
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|Reading||Daydreaming, Reading Fiction, Wikipeida & GScholar||"A chapter a day", "A book a week", Reading Pop-Sci||2 weeks every quarter, Read Textbooks, Research Papers, and Analytic Book Reviews
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|Friends||Internet & Meetups||A dozen semi-closed friends||Clique that meets more than weekly
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|Blogging||5 scribbles in 1 day||editing & writing simultaneously||Coherent edits throughout the week
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|Coffee||No caffeine||"A cup a day" ||Caffeine at weekends
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|'''Mighty Knowledge<ref name=":1">https://www.mightyknowledge.com/use-the-barbell-strategy-for-risk-taking-in-your-life/</ref>'''|| || ||
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|Studies||Necessary Work||Maximal Achievement||Explorative and counter-Factual
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|Hobbies||Competency||Adjacent||Random
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| Diet ||Meal Prep|| "Premium" Foods<ref>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/</ref>||Luxury Experience
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|Spending Time||Meetups||Acquaintances|| Close Friends & Families 
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|'''Alima<ref name=":2" />'''|| || ||
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|Tradition & Manners||What I know is Obl<nowiki/>ivious||Purposeless & Bad, In Denial||Chesterson's Fence, Respect
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|Religion||Faith||Atheistic Rationalism||Theological Rationale
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| Science & Debate||Anti-Science Fundamentalism||Scientism & Rationalism||Science-Decoupled Rhetoric
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|Allies|| Family & Kin||Universalism||Machiavellianism
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|Risk Attitudes||Ignorant (Robust)||Averse (Fragile)||Tolerant (Antifragile)
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|Midwittery||Uninformed||Misinformed||Informed
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|Taste||No Taste||Public Identity||Private Taste
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|'''Sachin Kesiraju<ref name=":3" />'''|| || ||
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|Family||Tradition|| Antinatalism||Fulfillm<nowiki/>ent
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|Military||Patriotism||Anti-military||Power Theory
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|'''David Kadavy<ref>https://kadavy.net/blog/posts/barbell-strategy/</ref>'''|| || ||
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|Body By Science||Long Walk<nowiki/>s & Sports||Steady-State Cardio||Powerlifting
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|Tech Use||Distraction-Free Brainstorming||Mindlessly Surfing The Web||High-Powered Research Tools
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|Time Management||Priorities, Habits, Automation, Documents (PHAD)||Fragility, Outsourcing, Complexity, Deadlines (FOCD)||Meditation, Relaxation, Play and Conversation
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|'''10K Tom<ref>https://www.10ktom.com/post/barbell-strategy</ref>'''|| || ||
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|Career Investment||Not <nowiki/>Invested in Employer Equity||Invested in Employer Equity||Betting On Employer Failure
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|Consumption||Frugal baseline quality||Highest affordable baseline quality||High quality in one or two great valued areas
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|Charity||Cutthroat Career||Corporate Charity Optics||Extremely Philanthropy
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|'''Mao's 7-2-1 Strategy<ref>https://archive.ph/XINjM</ref>'''||10% Defending||20<nowiki/>% Compromise||70% Development
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|'''Swell & Cut'''
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|<ref>https://swellandcut.com/2020/09/05/fat-tails-and-boring-edges/ </ref>||Legacy Systems||Replaceable Skill||Cutting Edge Tech
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|<ref>https://swellandcut.com/2018/09/26/in-plain-sight/</ref>||<nowiki/>Trust Heavy||Conceal Heavy||Share Heavy
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|<ref>https://swellandcut.com/2018/07/17/the-illegible-space/</ref>||Single Plane Movement||Multiplane movement||Transitional Flows
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|<ref>https://swellandcut.com/2018/06/28/the-trident/</ref>||The Momentary Present||The Immutable Past||The Negotiable Future
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