DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1d ago
The blue tribe has Reddit.com The red tribe has scored.co which grew out of Reddit’s ejected The_Donald sub with 6m members at its high point. The grey tribe has lesswrong.com
There are others, but these are pretty big sites.
We really are about as active as a single subreddit. I’d love to see a philosophy thread here, focused on the abstract and non-culture-war, with these insightful and interesting folks, but I’ve gotten little buy-in on my threads.
However, I do have some ideas for a distributed problem-solving forum which might be integrated into the codebase.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8d ago
While private equity is often seen merely as predation of slack time / redundancy in a business, I see it as an attempt to find profitable business models in the face of blatant anti-business sentiments in governance.
“See?” the PE-bought biz says, “We’re no Randian exceptional beings trying to make the world better. No need to try to kill us, we’re already dead inside.”
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8d ago
Good catch! It’s when a person’s image of themselves shatters that they’re most susceptible to rumination and ideation.
I vigorously maintain that the poetic and glamorous reporting on Kate Spade’s suicide is what killed Bourdain: “She hanged herself with a scarf from her own fashion line,” said the news report on the car radio, and I literally yelled at the radio, “You fools! You’re causing a wave of suicides!”
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
9d ago
I will believe this is about defense against taxation and antitrust judgments, and not capitalistic hypercompetition, until someone gives me sufficient evidence my priors are mistaken.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
9d ago
Thank you, Actual Progressive. I intuit, then, that unrepresentative depictions/hiring/election results are taken as evidence (not proof) that oppression or bullying has kept the depiction from being representative?
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
10d ago
One could even flatly say having Representation in the Republican party and the conservative movement would be, to their eyes, a bad thing.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
10d ago
I’ll count that as both: dewhitening the leadership as primary, and secondarily as a form of psychological conditioning.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
10d ago
I’ll count that as primary: a form of psychological conditioning.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
10d ago
"Representation" should be defined for this comment thread as people of diverse backgrounds being seen as protagonists, deuteragonists, and antagonists in fiction, being elected representatives, and being hired for visible jobs at management/executive levels.
Is Representation a primary goal of the progressive project? Or is it a secondary goal, a virtue signal for societal diversity, since it can be seen as a sign that oppression has ceased, a sign that diverse people should be expected walking around in public, using services, present in labor jobs, and other signs of diverse social integration?
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
10d ago
A corporation is already a profit-maximizer with decision-making so distributed it’s practically an egregore. Why not see if LLMs trained on management books can do management better than humans?
The idea of stock ownership of an LLM corporation is interesting, and the CEO-bot won’t need a salary or golden parachute.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
11d ago
To my eyes, the man believed he was still being assaulted by the group, which is why he wrapped his arm around the policewoman’s neck.
Then he looks down at her uniform and realizes he assaulted in mistaken defense, and in the adrenaline rush insists that the police go chase the real bad guys, which is a chargeable offense on grounds of offensive racism.
This whole sequence of events disturbs me.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
13d ago
I may grab a copy!
I’ve developed a notation for standard grid logic puzzles that has been helping me greatly, I may do a video about it.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
14d ago
I’m feeling healthier than I have in a while:
- Two months ago, gave away my Chromebook that was keeping me up to 1am.
- A month ago-ish, started watching movies on cheap Tuesdays at the Regal theater. First two I saw were meditations on men’s mental health: Backrooms and TADC finale.
- Started doing logic puzzles again.
- On Monday, quit Twitter. Immediate improvement at work and at home.
There’s always the option of running bots that populate the subs with high-quality engagement bait and are explicitly listed as blue, grey, or red tribe bots. Add a switch for users to show or hide them, and a switch for users to show subthreads that get at least x amount of positive engagement.
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