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2D3D
1d ago
Best anime for anime watchers is Cromartie High. It is near perfect in pacing, absurdity and meta-jokes about anime as a medium to begin with. The english dub is actually better than the sub simply because the ridiculousness of the voiceover heightens the comedy, even when relatively subtle wordplay (rare) is involved. Konosuba achieves largely the same and is a good rip on the extremely tired Isekai power fantasy genre.
Otherwise for seriousness I found Gundam Witch From Mercury one of the best examples of longterm psychological manipulation presented in any medium, all while wrapped in an enjoyable high school drama with good action and decent worldbuilding. Last 2 episodes compressed a season into 2 episodes which is nuts but otherwise it was pretty excellent. A good lighthearted series is Dungeon Meishi which makes an attempt at internal consistency and logical subversion/adherence to fantasy tropes, so its a good time there.
coffee_enjoyer
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1d ago
No, not every state roots itself in biological instinct to the same degree. “Ranked choice voting” and “representatives based on population” are examples of procedures unrooted in biological instinct. These procedures require the use of intellect to conclude that the procedure is ultimately in our best interest; when instinct rears its head and says “I wish my leader continued longer than the term allows”, it is quelched by a sense of logic insisting that it’s for the greater good. Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler obtained power through force (or the threat thereof) without much interest in procedure. That’s biological: you could see that happen in humans 100k years ago, or in primate groups.
Epithumia and Logos are too broad as concepts to know in what sense you mean that they are “biological”. Logos, as a construct of wisdom, is surely non-biological.
I don’t believe that humans actually come with “individualistic self-interest”; they come with a self-interest mediated by social cooperation and tribal allegiance. Purely individualistic self-interest is… how old? Not very old at all. It’s like 20th century new. In any other period, someone who pursued ruthless self-interest at the expense of the collective would be (rightfully) purged, his genes being defective.
Garibaldi
Probably because of his heroic and glorious military career in pursuit of securing territory for a people, his subservience of selfish ambition to nationalist aspirations. Or because “he is not a man; he is a symbol, a form; he is the Italian soul”. His hero worship is precisely because he mirrors fascism. If he were simply a bureaucrat politician with some ideas, no one would worship him. And indeed, I don’t think anyone worships him for his view of democratic republicanism (he fought for the monarchists for the sake of unification). Fascism is about Garibaldimaxxing, to the fullest extent, so that men have a lot of passionate feelings about the nation, which can only occur through marrying it to biological instinct.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1d ago
Extremely long Cummings substack piece: https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/a-talk-on-regime-change
If you had to read one part, read the speech he gave at Oxford, skip to: Text, Oxford, 19 June 2025
It's staggering. I'm one of the biggest Cummings-trusters and I thought he was overdoing it when it comes to the Civil Service on rotations. I check it and it's true. It's the most retarded idea I've heard for some time.
And the insane HR system means that everybody changes jobs every two years, roughly. So if you’re sitting in No. 10, you have a series of meetings with someone in charge of, for example, Chinese cyber operations. And you talk to them and you talk to them. You have meeting after meeting, and then suddenly this person vanishes completely and some new person arrives in No. 10 and you say: ‘Oh, hello, who are you?’. And they say: ‘Oh, I’m so-and-so’. And you say: ‘Oh, right. Okay. Um, so what are you doing?’. ‘Oh, I’ve been in charge of special educational needs for the last two years’. ‘Oh, right. Okay. You’re now in charge of Chinese cyber operations?’. ‘Yeah’.
So much from his anecdotes (always the best parts of Cummings, otherwise he just repeats his main themes) reads like it came out of Yes Minister. The power of the Cabinet Secretary and impotence of the PM, Ministers just reading out their briefs, cabinet decisions made in advance by the official who drafts the minutes, everyone desperately beholden to the media. There's that bit about a lack of individual accountability for projects, straight out of the 1980s: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-pQcNKFoIDE
Sir Arnold from the show: "We already move our officials around every two or three years to stop this personal responsibility nonsense, if this scheme passes we'll be reposting them once a fortnight!'
If they had genocided them in the 1960s, they would've probably gotten away with it.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
1d ago
INTP, reliably. I think the "horoscope" comparisons are nonsense propagated by an unholy alliance of IFLSciencers ("Don't you know THE SCIENCE says you are not supposed to use it?") and people who are vaguely aesthetically annoyed that its fans have some intersection with the horoscope crowd (people who just like labels). The questions the classification is based on ask about real and reasonably stable personality traits - why would the classification that results not capture personality? Is "people who said in a questionnaire in ten different ways that they are not perceptive of others' feelings will be seen as insensitive" comparable to "people born in October will be seen as insensitive"?
The only potentially valid objections are that it doesn't categorise along principal components or "cleave reality at its joints".
2D3D
1d ago
Not to get all culture warry, but its really funny that younger girls see how being sexless blobs made their elder zoomer/milleniel sisters 'happy' and decided that being pretty actually might be more fun.
In any case, boo on you all for perving on 3D women. Superior 2D all the way. Mute by default, and now available in near realtime paperdoll.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
*Borderline GF. Bipolar disorder != BPD
(If you stare long enough into the Abyss, it looks awfully like a pocket-pussy)
ElectrosHorse
1d ago
If you actually look at the ideas, the reactionary thesis is that most people do not desire to participate in politics and that the job of a respectable aristocracy is to fulfill this demand. Mass politics is a leftist import that only really features in syncretic forms of reaction like fascism.
This seems to have been the thesis statement of South Park republicanism until the showrunners began pouring most of their time into depicting Donald Trump being raped or otherwise humiliated. This may or may not have evolved into the modern day “radical centrism” popular with rdrama, where the only real terminal value seems to be not taking politics too seriously. See also people who are “grill pilled” and the like.
While I don’t blame Trump for this, his election has led to the politicization of damn near everything in society, presumably because he symbolizes a threat to the left that their capture of institutions is not as inevitable as they may have thought. We live in a world where Marvel comics have been written and drawn portraying Donald Trump as the villain MODOK, without a trace of irony. At least Genesis was self aware enough to use a Ronald Reagan puppet in their Land of Confusion music video.
It's a common criticism levied at reactionaries that they imagine themselves as aristocrats instead of the masses, but I don't think it connects because it's just not accurate.
I strongly agree, and the similar criticism that libertarians are “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” has long grated me as leftist projection. To the more extreme leftists, everything seems to be about power, often at the expense of principles. “No bad methods, only bad targets” and the like. It never once occurred to me, in my idealistic youth, that I should be voting “in my interest,” except in the esoteric sense that I supported constitutional republicanism and limited government involvement in people’s lives.
I certainly didn’t think of myself as a future millionaire. I mostly thought of myself as someone who wants to be left alone, by the government, by institutional powers, by everyone, and for others to have that same freedom. An old, forgotten soldier of the white capitalist patriarchy in a time when children my age were holding school assemblies to celebrate Barack Obama’s inauguration.
So to a certain kind of person, I suppose they can’t imagine why anyone who isn’t rich would support the freedom of rich people. They must be boot lickers or aspire to be rich themselves.
magicalkittycat
1d ago
Could anyone tell who he was working for from the video, and did he said anything at all relating to their business?
Well
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We only have his side of the story for the claim so we don't even know if we was fired over the video to begin with
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Ok so you're an employer and you see an employee of yours on the internet in front of millions saying things that you view as disgusting and horrible and that you don't want in your business. Are you only allowed to fire them if they mention your company during it?
If you want to say "a company should be able to fire and hire whoever they want, for any reason" there's entire books of labour law that would need to be abolished to stop the government from being "authoritarian".
I never said that, but yes from the perspective of the business owner they do lose some rights from anti discrimination laws. That is just a fact.
Which ones we find as acceptable is a different discussion and if you believe that should extend to anything a person says outside of work (or maybe even things they do inside of work) then that's a coherent viewpoint, but we can acknowledge that this definitely takes away more rights from the business owner.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1d ago
When I was a kid in that actual era, I listened to a ton of music from the 80’s and 90’s, as well as contemporary music. I think that’s extremely normal and doesn’t say much about the quality of current music.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
(And here I thought I was a doomer)
This is a plausible scenario. It isn't necessarily the only way this could play out (did I ever mention we could all die?).
Most industrial societies today are willing to spend resources for the upkeep and care of the economically unproductive, or even those who are outright deadweights. The disabled, the very elderly, the mentally ill. We expect just about nothing back from them. (There are political concerns, but even so, the majority opinion is definitely not mandatory euthanasia, it certainly wouldn't poll well).
I have, in the past, explained at length that the expense of keeping every single human alive today in absolute luxury is negligible to a post-scarcity society like the ones full industrial automation and ASI can produce. A Kardashev 1 has about a thousand times our present energy budget, all 8 billion humans could live like kings.
If there is any altruistic impulse in those that hold the reins, then it really isn't a meaningful fraction of the light cone to keep at least us chumps happy. Doesn't mean they have to make us peers, or true equals, in the same manner the Saudi King doesn't hand out his own allowance to goat-herds. Such a life, well, I'd take it any day over what we have going right now, even if it's not optimal.
Maybe Bezos, Musk and Altman are bickering over galaxies or super-clusters. I'd be content enough with one of the hundred billion star systems in the Milky Way. I'd settle for a planet. That really isn't much.
Besides, a future of utter disempowerment or death isn't set in stone. We're literally building the machines today, it's not too late to make sure that they're programmed in a way that beats this very low bar.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1d ago
Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, Panic and Avril
Your daughter has fantastic taste in music, but it’s a bit interesting that kids today are still listening to the bands of the previous generation, no?
Maybe there’s something to that whole “death of culture / cultural stasis” idea.
magicalkittycat
1d ago
Not a great question considering free association rights are essentially a form of free speech rights. At least that's how we've traditionally viewed it in the US
As the Court noted in Roberts, the choice to associate and "maintain certain intimate human relationships" is "a fundamental element of personal liberty." These associations play a "central role" in the constitutional scheme and in "safeguarding individual freedom." Therefore, they receive protection against "undue intrusion" by the government.
The right to associate is more than just a right to attend a meeting. Instead, it is "the right to express one’s attitudes or philosophies by membership in a group or by affiliation with it or by other lawful means." (Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)). The Supreme Court has stated that association in this context is a "form of expression of opinion."
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Every Fascist movement/government was a little different, "Fascism" as such didn't necessarily have the ideological consistency that the Communism of the time did.
I return over and over to the myth of the Golem when thinking about the rise of Fascism in Germany and elsewhere. Traditional and Capitalist elites saw Hitler as a necessary counter to the threat of Communism, only to see Hitler grow too powerful and start threatening the aristocrats and capital who empowered him.
Equally, Hitler was empowered by continued Communist agitation and the refusal of Communist parties to ally with conservatives to stop Hitler, as part of Stalin's foreign policy choices, on the theory that the capitalist powers would exhaust themselves in war; they would live to see Hitler turn on the Soviets to disastrous effect.
Hitler had a lot of sometime allies on his way up, and a lot of them lived to regret it.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
I hate you guys so much
Love you too
From falling for bipolar gf's to becoming one... I guess they really were right about staring into the abyss, huh?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
Agreed. It's difficult to predict the long-term stability of such systems, when I speak of a multipolar AI regime, I'm most concerned with the short term, or at least the period when they might kill humans. I'm sure they'll either gobble each other up or figure out some kind of merger with a values-handshake eventually.
In my homebrew sci-fi scenario
As someone who writes his own hard scifi novel that involves ASI, I feel your pain. There is no realistic way to depict such a setting where normal humans have any degree of real control, or much in the way of stakes (where humans make a difference).
Your approach isn't bad. If I had to make a suggestion:
JarJarJedi
1d ago
Yes, PA is not a full state, because any solution that was designed to get them to full state and permanent resolution of the conflict has been thoroughly and consistently rejected by the Palestinians. And when Gaza was made an experiment in de-facto evolving towards full self-rule without a formal agreement, what Israel got as the result is October 7. There's absolutely no desire in Palestinian politics to reach any permanent solution that involves Israel existing in peace. Given that, any additional sovereignty level that Israel allows would only lead to more casualties on Israel's side. Gaza demonstrated it (and continues to demonstrate, with Hamas' thorough rejection of any arrangement that requires Hamas to give up on killing Israelis) very convincingly, and demanding from Israel to be more suicidal than it already is does not sound like a fair demand.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
Help mommy, the weebs are grooming me :o
(Love you too)
2D3D
1d ago
And the Jews lived in Jerusalem before per the Roman record, till they were displaced by invaders later on. Guess its a new invader now, or are we going "no take backsies". In which case India better return Dehli to Islamabad per the Mughal Empire.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
1d ago
My mid-teens daughter collects shirts from bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, Panic and Avril, then mutilates them into exposing her midriff and a shoulder. She periodically threatens to revert to her emo phase.
And my paternal instinct is to make a vague threat over the eye-fucking, but my grounds are uncomfortably shakey. I took her to a concert a while back, and while I think I kept my gaze pretty respectful, I was very aware that the actual women (more early 20's than late teens, but still) in the venue were aesthetically delightful. There's something about watching a young woman dressed in the alt style of his youth snarl to her friends that "It's time for BeatDown Slut Metal!" that inspires a man to want to make ruinous decisions. Would that I were 25 again.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1d ago
Oh yeah for sure, anyone who identifies as a Rationalist in the LW sense or has an affinity for that style of thinking is basically an INTJ or INTP by definition.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
I was always shocked when I'd goto Boston in March/April, and coming back from a convention at 1 am we'd pass gaggles of scantily clad women without jackets outside some club while we hustle past in thick winter jackets. Some hoes are just a different breed.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1d ago
This is a really big area that I’m largely ignorant of. Here’s an overview of the historical development of the Big Five model with copious citations, particularly with reference to studies on cross-cultural validation of the Big Five categories.
I note that the paper notes that, methodologically, research into the Big Five “originated in studies of natural language trait terms […] For the layperson, personality is defined by such terms as friendly, high-strung, and punctual. These are the basic ways in which individuals understand themselves and others”. I sense an effortpost in the future on the relationship between ordinary language philosophy and this approach to psychology.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Hamas surrendering will not happen, but even if it did, it wouldn't stop the fighting. If you could magically get the Hamas leadership to surrender, they'd either be murdered by their underlings or, after declaring they surrendered, a new organization would spring up to fight Israel. Gaza is not a case of a peace-desiring or indifferent population being dragged into war by their leadership; it's a case of a war-loving population having the leaders they want.
INTP. You are aware that MB is a load of shit, so if you want horoscopes but actually rigorous (standing up to a factor analysis), then OCEAN is the one for you.
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