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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sure, if you ask it to summarize it will summarize and what you say is true. However, LLMs (in general) output such verbosity that it is just certainly true that they are not adding useful information. Obviously if you ask it for a cake recipe it will add information. But, if you're trying to discuss some topic on TheMotte, the output will just be a combination of whatever information is in the input, plus some kind of related informational average from the internet. It's this latter component, I imagine, we recognize as "slop."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I wonder how to market a female gulag to voters. It would need to be high-status, and it would be necessary to frame it as "we are keeping men out" not "we are keeping women in." This creates a problem because then women would try to get into the gulag. What system-level consequences are you talking about?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't see how the people who created this problem are the ones with reasons to block Feminist power. It's trivial to find recent charts about young men being anti-feminist. Are the studies fake?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


it widens the Overton Window




Indeed, the former Sheeran fans (just look at Reddit's opinion) are trying to prevent this. You speak as if widening the the Overton Window is good, but lots of people disagree.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Leftists will skinsuit the religion; traditional Muslims will be attacked as backwards right-wingers. Its unlikely they will get deported. What I'm not sure about is if verbal attacks on "Islam" will be phrased exactly the same way as against Christianity ("Islam" having a residual connotation of being a victim). I am pretty sure the Cathedral can coordinate a phase change once necessary. This probably will be near the end of our lifetime, if even within our lifetime.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For a fascinating (yet long) set of reads from a rationalist-adjacent substack, you might enjoy this guy's Eve Theory of Consciousness, tackling things like the Sapient Paradox and generally tying myths to anthropology from a materialist perspective. There's nothing about theology in here, and of course the author treats myths the same way you do, as having kernels of truth.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I had no idea "clock speed" was different in youth vs old age. I always thought the reason youngsters experience time differently than older folk is because of humans' (or animal brains, really?) general logarithmic perception of stimuli.


In Psychology class, they taught us as a general rule that you would need to add 10% of extra weight to your weightlifting to feel a difference, as opposed to a fixed amount like 10 lbs. That is to say, the human brain reacts to percent-increases rather than fixed increases.


As such, 1 year is a long time to a young person ("high percentage of their life so far") but a short time to an old person ("low percentage of their life so far")


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For the last year or two, when people argued over "due process," many restrictionists here (like myself) said deportation is not a punishment. I understand you talk here of "stripping citizenship," not deportation per se. But, it seems related to me, and it seems I could construct a similar line of argument.


Is stripping citizenship really a punishment? I mean, if the country imprisons you but decides you can't own property or vote, that's one thing. If it is relinquishing its control, obligations, etc; over you and banishes you, that seems a little less bad to me.


I suppose the key distinction is: if a country is doing this to its own natural-born citizens, it creates a "stateless person" but this is very different than telling foreigners to go back to their home country. Blurring that distinction is uh, well, shall we say a soldier in a political argument.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Conservative - Eye - Duh - No




Ah, similar to the Goyim pronunciation, which is "I dunno"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Someone's already linked to a Scott post on Weakmanning, but Scott also gives examples of this in Ethnic Tensions (search "mccain"). It's mostly about associating positive things with the ingroup and negative things with the outgroup.