ThomasdelVasto
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Blogger, Christian convert, general strange one. https://shapesinthefog.substack.com/
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ThomasdelVasto
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12d ago
Yeah one of the best scissor statements I've ever seen. I do think that one of the best things the rationalists are into is unschooling and free range kids. Just the idea that childcare is way more intense than it used to be, and really than it needs to be due to cultural norms.
ThomasdelVasto
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12d ago
Yeah idk if he's the sole breadwinner for the family, if he was and approached it from that angle I'd probably be more sympathetic.
I don't have great instincts for a career myself so... I find it hard to relate ahaha.
ThomasdelVasto
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12d ago
Yeah I tend to agree with this. I personally find it useful and important to think about and focus on internal states more than the norm, but it's easy to go overboard and pathologize any discomfort as a problem that needs to be solved.
ThomasdelVasto
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12d ago
What about for Rand? Same thing?
A post is blowing up on my part of twitter where a guy is saying he only wants to spend 10 minutes a day with his kids.. This has a surprising amount of scissor power, with people coming down on all sides.
Relevant quote:
My feelings of love toward them are perfectly strong, but if I have to watch them or entertain them for more than about 10 minutes my blood starts to boil. I just want to be working, or accomplishing something. I try to be grateful, but it doesn't work...
Am I a terrible person? Or is my feeling within a certain range of historically normal and it's modern parenting norms that are off? Whether it's my fault or not, I don't even care, I just want to figure this out. Something is wrong and I no longer have the excuse of being new to this.
The one straightforward argument is that, well, he's a shitty dad. Especially since he says he wants to be working, accomplishing something, and what is his work? Well, he's a creative director at some random tiny crypto business working on "building digital gold." So... easily mockable.
The other side says that modern parenting norms are fucked, as he aludes to, and that kids used to be a lot more free range. Normally I'm sympathetic to this, but the guy's kids are below five, so idk. I think infants and toddlers definitely need a lot of attention.
Either way I'm curious how parenting norms might break down along culture war lines, and what people here think?
ETA: Also, a great and extremely sassy quote tweet:
This post has everything I despised about Silicon Valley: the narcissism paired with extreme neuroticism, the intense focus on “how you feel” on a meta level, the inability to appreciate anything non-“productive”, the therapeutic public confession, and finally, the utter selfishness towards the needs of children when it is you who are the adult and should take responsibility for yourself.
ThomasdelVasto
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13d ago
Just finished The Quantum Thief which was an amazing trilogy.
Probably about to start the Dreamblood duology.
ThomasdelVasto
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13d ago
Best way I know of is just to network with the bar staff and other musicians. If you have good friends that are well known or know bartenders/bar managers it’s waaaaay easier to get a gig.
ThomasdelVasto
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14d ago
Yeah I totally agree. I think a huge reason the Groypers are successful is they just have some energy and are having fun with it. I disagree with a lot of the views, but wow the RNC has a lot to learn.
It's kind of hilarious how many people in this thread are telling me I'm just being lazy, or that this is some sort of giga-brained strategic decision to weed out people who aren't agentic enough. Really shows a complete lack of understanding of how political/social organizations are built and maintained.
ThomasdelVasto
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14d ago
No economy sounds horrid! I love making gobs of money. How do you play like that? ahaha.
Also of course, stealth archer is just OP.
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
This is awesome. I ended up getting this collection which has a lot of these. This is a blast so far. https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/collections/qfftpq/mods
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
Hope things are going well for you buddy!
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
Yeah, sadly ~95% of therapists are terrible. Maybe 3-4% are okay and will help some. Then there do exist the top 1% of super-therapists that can literally transform you into a different person, if you're willing to work with them.
I'd recommend doing everything you can to just find an incredibly good therapist, and don't settle for one you think is merely ok. It's a waste of time.
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
I'd be in favor of this plan, personally. It is basically the same as paying people to have more children, yeah. Might be more popular to do it in a non-gendered way, tax people with too many childless workers, but effectively that's still a tax on women working.
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
This sounds like lazy cope, at best. The organization would be far better served by actively pulling talented people into politics and away from business or other life paths at critical moments.
I'm surprised by how many people here think this is some sort of optimal, or even thought out strategy. My money is on the party organizers being lazy or not caring about the party as a whole, and/or just general societal degradation of community activity, as other posters have pointed out.
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
Good to know, I suppose I hadn’t ever looked into it before. I’m just sort of surprised there isn’t more of an effort to collect and groom young talent into future leaders.
Why do you think the current setup is a good thing?
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
I said in the OP, I'm in a purple state. Not a waste of money at all, this is a hotly contested area.
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
This is far too cumbersome, no wonder there are so few talented young people in the Republican party. Absurd dropping of the ball imo.
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
Why not have public events and take randos off the streets? Problem is you have a ton of motivated young men and women that would likely join or get involved, but the process is quite illegible and difficult. Surely the party wants to increase recruitment, especially with much bemoaned the lack of elite human capital?
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
Fair points! I do suppose young people just go into politics instead of hanging in the youth group. Still, seems like a huge miss in terms of just funneling more youths into the organization, capitalizing on political sentiment, etc.
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
I’ve seen it but I’m extremely cheap!
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
I did! Was not able to get back into it. Part of it is that I played Oblivion far, far more than Skyrim. It may be my most played single player game of all time, hah.
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
Yesterday I decided to look up my local young republicans group, to see if I could actually do something political instead of just talk about it online. This is in the U.S. of course.
I was quite surprised to find that, while there are ostensibly two groups operating in my area (a major metro in a purple state), there's basically nothing happening in either. One of the groups seems completely defunct, with a broken website. The other looked more 'official' and the site worked, but there was exactly... one event listed for all the rest of the next year: an awards dinner months out, that costs $75 for anyone who is not already a member to go to.
Nothing besides a basic google form with regards to contact, and no other events or opportunities listed whatsoever.
I talked to an AI about this, and apparently this is the norm? ChatGPT recommended I volunteer to canvas or whatever at the official GOP arm in my state, but I wanted to at least go to some sort of social event to start out. Again, nothing! All official meetings, no unofficial mixers or community building volunteering or anything.
Seriously, what is going on here? These are the most major political organizations in the country, and they're being run far worse than most local Effective Altruism groups. This just makes zero sense to me.
FWIW, I looked up the young democrats group in my area, and that seemed just as bad.
Am I missing something here? Is there a reason why these incredibly powerful, important political parties seem to have zero effort involved in actually getting young people to work for them? Seems like an incredibly massive self-own.
Even a highly motivated and intelligent young person will basically be at a loss as to what to do with their political energy. No wonder our generation is so politically blackpilled. No wonder everyone freaked out about Charlie Kirk's assassination!
Am I missing something, or are things really this bleak for political activism amongst the youth in the U.S.?
ThomasdelVasto
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15d ago
Just started Skyrim up again. Any recommendations for mods or fun things to try? I haven’t played in years.
ThomasdelVasto
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17d ago
(It looks like I just stole Yarvin’s idea there, but I promise I did not; maybe we both read something that inspired a similar thought)
I didn't think you did. Your line of thinking matches up well with the app idea regardless. I do think that specifically engineering status symbols in group hierarchies is crucially important, and something almost no major groups do now! Quite strange.
30? We will last 300, at least. @self_made_human will be one of the first uploads and conquer a significant portion of the lightcone, and provide us plenty of resources.
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