Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
Hello back frens
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Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4mo ago
What happens if Russia decides it wants to capture even more of Ukraine in a few years, for whatever reason?
Didnt the vast majority of wars end this way though? Loser making some concessions, winner in no way reducing his ability?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4mo ago
What fiscal policy will enable a pure-Aryan Germany to flourish
Quasi-Keynsian war economy with Konzern characteristics. The Nazis absolutely had plans for all sorts of things beyond just getting rid of the jews - not necessarily good plans, but they were there, largely in advance of taking power. The communist party also had lots of plans. Its quite typical of totalitarianism really. Very few political movements ever had as little plan as Trump I, which is precisely why he didnt do a whole lot. This idea that that makes it extra dangerous seems to be entirely a just so story.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4mo ago
Just because it would be funny unfortunately doesnt mean its true. I was first linked to Scott by reactionaries who then were floating around in libertarian spaces. This is where Moldbug came from and was mostly talking to.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4mo ago
Well Im glad that youre so principled, but... calling for literal, legal-definition murder is not the same as saying that e.g. men and women are different. At the point when that was what you had to do to get fired as a rightwinger, they didnt complain about cancel culture, they didnt even form that concept. If this is where you lost hope, you might as well never have hope - and I have my suspicions if you actually apply/ied that standard to the left in practice.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
5mo ago
if these people are not allowed to work legally
This is generally not the problem in Europe.
But is that a consequence of immigration for failed policy for integrating immigrants
"Leftism cannot fail, it can only be failed", and besides, the requirement to do something for integration is a negative consequence.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
5mo ago
There's also the tail end of this article, in which he alludes to transgenderism possibly being a Western culture-bound syndrome.
Hes mentioned it again since, and I think he believes it - but this doesnt mean he is anti trans. This is the guy who was ground zero for the HBD therefore socialism argument. @self_made_human
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2yr ago
I remember sitting in elementary school reading classes, where kids would be randomly picked to read some passage out of a book, and it was painfully obvious which of my fellow students could only read by sounding out syllables based on the spelling of words; they had absolutely no idea what the semantic content of what they just read actually was.
That propably means they (were made to) go too fast. If you can sound out the text, and you can understand speech, then you can understand the text. If you try to go very fast and throw every letter out of working memory as soon as you read it, thats bad. The teacher should make you repeat each word after you finish it, without looking back at the text, and same for sentences. Eventually youll learn to read fluidly just from practice - but better to read non-fluidly before that.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2yr ago
and harder still to distinguish from normal personality changes from simply being in these environments
Is there even a difference? A new behaviour is established, gets positive reinforcement, grows.
It's enough of an issue that there's a lot of psychological screening that goes on for serious undercover investigation roles.
Yes, few people have the ability to keep their inner life unchanged when they get a lot of reinforcement in a different direction. And describing it like that, I think its easy to see how having that ability would put you at risk for a different kind of insanity.
MineCraft Quilt multiplicity people
Google is useless here, mind elaborating?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2yr ago
minimalist 30 minute
My condolences. Seriously though, how early do you have to get up for that?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2yr ago
Except...if one can just say it out loud, how cool and secret can it really be?
And if you could say it out loud and you just dont, thats somehow cooler? Because the point of themotte is that there is a way to make a claim overtly. All the cases I can think of when some "darkly hinting" got popular in ratspace is when "You wouldnt understand it even if I said it out loud, because its so hard to explain and/or understand" like TLP or the meditation guys.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2yr ago
Similarly, the number of people moving into a city will be upper bounded by some multiple of the number of salaried jobs that the city can support.
And it historically kept being met. In the 1980s people randomly decided that cities around the world were 'full'. By what mechanism did the degree of fullness get determined and why stop at this arbitrary time in the late 20th century ?
The 80s were the inflection point of an economic change, where now the number of salaried jobs increases as the people in the city increase. In the old days, a city would be built around a resource, often a trade route, that had some absolute size of economic surpluss to be extracted. There were jobs for the people extracting it, those brought people in, then there were jobs for services for those people, which brought more people in, etc, but this would taper off quickly and the population stayed limited. Then with industrialisation, you could create surplus anywhere. But you still need food as an input for the workers, and initially that still limited the growth of the cities by how far it could (afford to) be transported. But eventually, technology became so good that its now basically irrelevant where a city is. Really only container ship access matters, and thats a matter of if. ~Noone who has it is physically blocked from expanding it. Now, the best place to run your generic company is in the biggest city, and so it the best place to look for a job, and the only price that can go against it is that of the space.
If you solve this by just building ever more, the result is maybe ten gigantic cities in the whole world (plus small mining towns scattered far apart). And that might be the most efficient thing to do in some sense, but housing still wont be as cheap as it used to. Things just want to clump together now, and they will always want a bit more.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
7d ago
I/O is not Read/Write
You dont really have read/write access to your harddrive either, unless you open it up and look with a microscope. The "direct" access you get as a normal user is just a very reliable introspective report.
we can, in fact, point to the gears in CPUs and RAM and do gear things with them, and this is in fact the best, most efficient way to manipulate and interact with them.
Thats because the computer is designed to be understandable and manipulable. Its not the least bit difficult to write a programm or OS that doesnt have meaningful interactable gears for you, and transistor-level analysis is not the best, most efficient way to interact with computers. I mean, we talk a lot about LLMs here, and I dont think they are the same thing as humans, but it seems like they pass an non-mechanical by your criteria.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
16d ago
Reee, my outgroup is full of animals who would never compromise or act in good faith! This justifies me never acting in good faith either.
This can in fact be true, though I would recommend a slower pace of escalation than him even then. How would you know when it is true?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
22d ago
It is a bit counterintuitive, but every bike ride is one less car ride, and this means a great cycling city has less congested traffic for cars.
In my experience, a cyclist on the road causes more delay for cars than another car would. Even though the bike is smaller than a car, it effectively blocks the same amount of space: the safety distance behind is the same, and that dominates the physical length. Being thinner is balanced by 2x+ the sideways distance for passing, plus for passing it usually doesnt matter how much of you sticks in the next lane, just if at all. And then they still are slower and often less predictable.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
29d ago
This is an oversimplification (inevitable, perhaps, when discussing Hegel) but Hegelian philosophy is sometimes explained through the metaphor of an acorn.
I know one such quote, but the point there is different, illustrating his dynamic hylomorphism:
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. These stages are not merely different; they supplant one another as being incompatible with one another. But their own inherent nature makes them at the same time moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and this constitutes the nature of the whole.
I see a lot of men who whine and complain that they don't want a "project", or a woman that isn't already the perfect match for them. Well...okay, man, but the entire world is made mostly by men who like the idea of a "project" in basically every facet of their entire lives, so maybe your status as single is a feature of evolution.
Its true up to a point. Obviously a relationship will be work, and you have to accept that not everything is perfect right away, but one of the Copybook Headings is that persistent changes of character are rare and not especially inducible (where weight is apparently included in character traits).
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1mo ago
The sneer faction are blue-tribe/academic turbonormies. The contrast is no more confusing, and to some extent explained by, AOC not saying anything about poly.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
"Keith is goth" clearly means something, even though it doesn't actually tell you any specific thing about what Keith is like besides identifying as goth.
It actually doesnt tell you whether he identifies that way, it tells you whether the speaker identifies him that way. Indeed, pretty much all subcultures will explictly reject self-identification when they feel like it, usually to keep out the "posers" but occasionally also to "claim" prominent people. Persistent disagreements about such claims of inclusion or exclusion tend to fracture the subculture.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
3mo ago
the constructivists think that the struggle for power is just a social construct that can be undone with nagging, sanctions and judicious use of force
Actually existing constructivists are batshit, which is too bad, because the first-principles logic of realism really is fake, and in the MAD world it was created to explain its more fake than ever. Theres no reason why something like e.g. current front lines should matter to a settlement between nuclear powers, beyond historical ones. And yet it does matter, and you cant unilaterally do away with it either.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4mo ago
Of all the examples you list when "we were mistaken", the only one that isnt simply leftwing is sports gambling - which ideologically Id read neutral but I think was mostly done by the republicans. Is this your personal bias (where others would not agree they were mistaken), or a humongous miscalibration thats really easy to notice to the point where it seems questionably someone would honestly make those mistakes?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4mo ago
If Im on the lifeboat, and we pull up a guy and he says the lifeboats full, leave the others in the water, then its propably in my interest to do so. Obviously that also calls into question whether bringing him on was a good idea, but it might be too late on that front.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4mo ago
I think what Darone did was weird but as long as she was up front about it and other group members seem broadly ok with it then I don't see the issue.
I think the group members that did the kicking-out accepted the behaviour, because they believed in a moral obligation to do so. In an emotional/personal preference sense, I dont think they were ok with it.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
5mo ago
A lot of these arent really points of conflict though. If the husband gets sick in a permanent career-ruining fashion, wouldnt he also wish they had a second income? And it would have been a problem in the old days, too.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2yr ago
What do you actually hope to get from a right that embraces white identity? I understand that DR often think mainstream conservatives just dont take anti-white progressives seriously enough, but if e.g. Rufo just maximally succeded, what do you think would be missing?
Few convert for glorious reasons.
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