If JD Vance wants to give back to “his people” the highest leverage thing he can do in his current position is to get Peter Thiel et al to finance The Foundational World Model proposal that Tegmark et al cannot. There is nothing more pernicious than Ivy League sociology’s ethnic fear of and hostility to the Scotch Irish baked into the foundation of the USA in 1787. It is that irrational fear and hostility that prevented the application of Moore’s Law to break the back of pseudoscientific sociology by imposing an objective metric for scientific validity.