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Living in a nice neighborhood, in the richest and most powerful country on Earth, owning your own house, with a stable comfortable job and a happy family is "a mouth full of glass"? You should interrogate yourself as to why that grates you.... 4d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.8 12.8 0.6 0.6

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To answer your question directly: of course a Männerbund is composed of stable men.... 4d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.6 12.6

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The former will result in a lot of light, not a lot of heat, and more likely than not you getting arrested because someone did too much coke at your house party or someone from outside your circle had sex with a drunk girl and now there are rape charges.... 3h ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.1 2.1

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Asks the DMV lady, her voice dripping with smug sass.... 2d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.6 12.6

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this is beautiful anon. thank you. 20h ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.3 5.3

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*For examples see: income tax (constitutional amendment passed because initially scoped to ~1% of Americans, now covers practically everyone), civil asset forfeiture (initially aimed at only drug seizures, now the cops can legally take your stuff almost wi... 1d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.4 0.4

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Definitely hasn't flown under the radar, but "Politics and the English Language" is my favorite piece Orwell ever wrote, and I don't say that lightly. Required reading.... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.0 8.0 0.5 0.5

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At different points in life, these made a lasting impact on me, but I rarely see them mentioned:... 3d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7

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Broader Western aesthetic decline is an separate question.... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 15.0 15.0

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I've been enjoying the "greco futurism" work from Peniche. He should post more of that here. It's high tech, humanistic, warm, aspirational, luxury, grand, western, traditional, archeofuturistic. I agree we've got to kill cyberpunk. It's just dystopian and... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14.6 14.6

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One thing that would help a lot: stop using shitty concrete for sidewalks. Tile it because plain concrete has the form and feeling of mud huts, only gray. Or polish it, like Costco flooring. Add some trees.... 3d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.9 3.9

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I've been working out seriously for a decade, natty, and will continue to do so. I think what people forget in the natty vs natural discussions is what the point of all the hard work is. The hard work is important not because of what it gets you, but becau... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.8 11.8

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For better or worse, that kind of energy has faded from the Earth and it's not coming back. I might even go so far as to say that the "Revolutionary Man" or the "masculine totalitarian" no longer exists as a biological archetype. The Interwar years were, a... 3d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.6 7.6

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I think this is the most relevant conversation to be had and it's what gets missed among those waiting for Caesar. The same way the archetypal soylennial we know and cherish is an uncommon specimen circa 1920, professional revolutionaries and scarred Junke... 3d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0

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Rodin is incredible. This is what “modern art” was meant to be before it was became a self-referential pozzed tax optimization scheme.... 3d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.6 7.6

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Yup. Landian techno-nihilism is interesting and fun for us big brain people to think and theorycel and chat about, but ultimately it's not prescriptive, so its usefulness is limited.... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14.6 14.6

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Fair enough. The "self-evident" vs "leap of faith" debate is missing the point. The real thing is our disagreement about whether the instincts need any higher framework of justification. I see where you are coming from and I agree that the instincts causal... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.9 12.9

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doesn't seem so, though perhaps https://cyclonotrope.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/unconditional-accelerationism-as-antipraxis/ gives a more nuanced picture here:... 3d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.5 0.5

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This also calls into question the assertion made in >>3870 by gotzendammerung:... 5d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.4 8.4

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I don't think Christianity can be understood in terms of thermodynamics. 4d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.8 1.8

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This essay is interesting but confused with nomenclature. There is no virtue in cruelty. Violence need not be cruel, it is often a necessary act of powerful protection. Lama Shang was a Buddhist military commander who took his students to battle and gave b... 4d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.3 2.3

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I'm gonna comment on this because this trope keeps coming up and I understand why but it's largely a projection.... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.8 9.8

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It's straightforward enough to create nouns or other concepts from (Classical) Chinese ad nauseum. The whole point during the Meiji Restoration was to have words that were from the West but had no previous equivalent.... 4d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.2 2.2

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Thanks for this. When I started reading it, I didn't expect it to make a link with virtue ethics at the end. The trade-off between excelling in craft versus the pursuit of reputation maps very neatly onto Alasdair MacIntyre's distinction between internal a... 7d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.2 0.2

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Its a good post and probably a significant part of what's going on. But the fertility crisis is just too damn big and ubiquitous to have one explanation. I mean if this is true it implies a degree of western cultural hegemony that I don't think anyone coul... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.7 2.7

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We're at a point where AI solves freshly-written IMO and IOI problems. It's pretty clear which of those two options is closer to the truth.... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.9 11.9

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This seems right. While "next token prediction" is in principle a universal interface to the world, the transformer architecture is not a universal learner. We can see this in its handling of arithmetic. If it were a true universal learner that modeled the... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7

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I haven't read it in detail yet but I have skimmed it and yeah I didn't find anything addressing the substance of Wolf's point, but more like attacking a bunch of other bad arguments that go around in the Trump right. I liked Tanner Greer's comment that th... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.2 6.2

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There can be surplus intellect, but in that case there's been a misallocation of resources and thus the system in toto isn't as intelligent as it could be. I agree that certain sub-spheres of Anglo thought have cultivated a kind of silly mystery cult of in... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.3 7.3

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I'm reading BAP's recent post on China and America's stumbling about as it considers reindustrializing. In the below section BAP talks about the strength, albeit complicated, that grows out of our financial markets and reserve currency status. In short: ta... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.4 2.4

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Urbit is a prime illustration of the limits of the theorycel.... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 18.7 18.7

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I could absolutely imagine this being something real, but as others have pointed out in the Urbit case, architecture astronautics like implementing a Yggdrasil style overlay network must absolutely be entirely abstracted away from the people actually using... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.9 12.9

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This describes almost exactly what is explored in this: https://thebutlerian.com/posts/a_case_study.html... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5

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Here's the canonical reply to this mode of inquiry:... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.7 12.7

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Pretty sure homoerotic behavior (whether involving actual sex or not) does not contribute to, but poisons and degrades, male groups and friendships.... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14.3 14.3

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Men used to form friendships through hunting, building, fighting, and working together—activities that were necessary for survival and building anything meaningful. You trusted other men because your livelihood depended on it. Sure, some abused that trus... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.2 2.2 0.1 0.1

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Felix Baumgartner is another example of this sort of nobility of spirit. Died just recently, also taken by Gnon. He was a good example of the more continental european aristocratic style of western spirit, and made multiple comments about the dangers... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.0 9.0

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No; it is a simulacra not because it doesn’t require traits that we normally call virtues, but because it does not attain desirable ends. You may say that we should admire “virtue” wherever we seem to find it, but that would require a great deal of p... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.8 2.8

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Let's do the opposite of that. An animal raised with dignity, slaughtered openly in the name of the gods, eaten with austerity and pride. 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.9 12.9

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The salts of ramen noodles bear resemblance to dried blood fond from roasting primal cuts without much water in the pot.... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.9 1.9

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I take Gnon to be the highest level pattern implicit in the laws of physics, but not practically derivable from them.... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.6 10.6

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As I mentioned in the other thread a serious worldview must be backed by more than mere assertion. On what basis and to what extent is group self-interest a valid principle? If we're not caring to actually back this up and enforce worldview rigor around an... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.6 10.6

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SpaceX has an internal ERP system called Warp Speed. From the people I know who work there, it is a significant part of what makes the company work as well as it does.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.1 11.1

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I think the main problem here is that people like to over-mysticize "enlightenment" and have vastly different things in their heads when they say this, especially amongst "believers."... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.7 12.7

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There is a phrase in the Pali Canon that is used frequently that goes something like "the Buddha teaches a Dhamma that is good in its beginning, good in its middle, and good in its end" and this is exactly why you might want to leverage the ideas even when... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.6 10.6

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Previous posters have given examples of exemplars, as well as the living tradition of practice and writings for anyone to fully engage and understand their goal, even if someone disagrees. Do you similarly have people you believe to have followed this goal... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7

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You cannot profess a heresy without upsetting the believers. There is no clever phrasing where you deny their tenets but disclaim it in a way that makes them feel fine.... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13.3 13.3

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Yeah if we're doing politics, we're going to need a good and honest party line. What's the party line on race relations? I dunno let's figure it out here.... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 15.0 15.0

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Yeah I know what Nietzsche tried to claim all this stuff was real, but he was wrong. Ultimately slave morality and master morality are just ideologies. Any other explanation of them isn't compatible with actual observation. 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.8 3.8

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I was too unserious in this post and unfortunately that killed its legitimacy. I was reminded of it by >>3722. There remains a big question at the center of any of our serious political thought, one which Nick Land loosely gestures at in the analysis above... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.2 9.2

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I mostly don't disagree but this kind of thinking in particular is the "prussian insanity" referred to by >>3896 that caused NS to lose. We've have discussions before about how they had no external legitimacy even if it was internally coherent, because the... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.1 7.1

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I was one who summited. Anon started very strong but rolled the unlucky snake eyes with regards to altitude sickness. I haven't ever gotten it myself, but it looked brutal. Seeing his perseverance from 11000' to 11500' was good inspiration for the remainde... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13.8 13.8

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Meditation on Mountain Peaks has some great passages that your ascent made me think of:... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14.7 14.7

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Looks like fun. I'd definitely go next time. Glad you guys had a good time 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.0 4.0

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Nice post. What's both painful and hilarious about cerebral types is our Discovery of Truths through rhetorical means, when truth is both invisible and exercised without misstep by the surfer, big wall climber, backcountry skier, etc.... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.2 10.2

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Of course you ~can~. My argument is that such divergence is a symptom of misconstruing the terminal goals. When you identify proper terminal goals, even though they will be outside of pure vitality, they will not be contrary to it, and will harmonize with ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0

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This is really interesting. Struggle is the principle that creates life, health, and truth, and it has justice to it. I have not heard of this so I will have to go read it. Is there a good english translation you recommend? Looks like archive has the germa... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.1 10.1

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Could you send some of your favorite R/ACC essays or discussions on "agonistic inamic unity"? It seems highly relevant and historically fascinating, but I can't find much online apart from the foundational book which is an academic tome. 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.2 5.2

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This format is worse than useless: "the solution is to simply <thing that will never happen>". It leads to blackpilling and learned helplessness.... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13.0 13.0

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I think you are wrong about the relative power of substrate and software to determine what work gets done. I think the real answer to invest in children is the fact that you have a headstart on determining their memes (and gene-meme coevolution will no dou... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.9 0.9

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In the domain of our careers it is best to play to our strengths in order to be maximally competitive. In the realm of the personal and romanic I think the addressing our weaknesses and filling in our gaps is most important. It is a meme but "try ball room... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.5 9.5

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We've had two years of intellectual development since the inception of this thread by the monosyllabic-nym old ones, so I want to pose a central question I had while reading. Cognitive separatism is necessary, we are actively doing it, it is starting to wo... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.8 11.8

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Is this just wishful thinking? Can we do some historical analysis and verify that the just falling out reliably happens? And if so, over what timescale? How long must we trust the plan?... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.5 4.5

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Nice provocation. I agree that mass speciation is inevitable, but the timescales do matter if we’re talking about this as an engineering problem. Which we should. I offer the example of Oymyakon, where the average winter temperature is around -50f. It is... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 15.7 15.7

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Take it one step further. Why bipedal fleshy animals at all?... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.2 11.2

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For a long time, I found the robot progeny idea inevitable yet distasteful. I now find it inevitable and aesthetically pleasing. Your characterization of bodiless-ness as the ultimate body is powerful.... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.6 2.6

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Lee Kuan Yew Thought overlaps with BAP Thought but is more effective in key ways. First, the above--he is not an online edgelord posting about Tibetan supremacy but rather a pragmatic statesman.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.9 12.9

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We know what BAP means by "the right of the stronger and better" just like we know what Sam Hyde means by "real Americans", but that doesn't make it coherent. I'll apply that same distinction I used in >>3385 between the truth and the political formulas he... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 16.0 16.0

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“And guess what, the US/WEF consensus generally regards him as a hero. This is completely load-bearing--it's why Singapore is well integrated into the Western world, which is the only way for a modern small state to be prosperous and reasonably sovereign... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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The high reputation poster is a bore and a lout of the highest order. As his reputation trends upwards the amount of information conveyed per post trends to zero. “On this topic the Socratics has this to say—” I can barely stomach this already. See h... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.5 10.5 0.2 0.2

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Thanks. So far so good and i have a lot of ideas for how to improve the taste machine further. The main bottleneck at this point i think is we have to bootstrap a network of good discussion here. Then with scale we will see more clearly the problems requir... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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You should check out THE ART AND THOUGHT OF HERACLITUS by Kahn. Lots of commentary on Heraclitus filters his fragments through Aristotle and other later philosopher's interpretation. Kahn attempts a purely textual exegesis which attempts to reconstruct Her... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.1 12.1

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These resources are all very good — thank you to everyone who's replied. I think given the tenor so far we should just turn this into a spergathon of posting the best Greek resources. Please continue with hidden gems, forbidden texts, and generally the m... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.1 11.1

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Slight update on our mission statement, some clarifications and an attempt at formalized rigor.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13.5 13.5

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Yeah, this is a totally fair point, and I think a lot of the "effective accerationsists" push this argument so far as to invalidate their entire worldview.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.6 1.6

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I think the dopamine binky shortform video crowd is a write off and should be ignored. Writing, specifically essays and forums, remains the most powerful technology for serious socially transformative thought ever invented. We should double down on the wri... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.5 11.5

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This 100%, but also I actually do not want to know what sofiechan is. Is any decent social media platform definable? Its indescribability is what lets it hold power over us. Magic is not defined; it is ingraspable.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.2 9.2

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Let's see if I get used it, but right now it feels like it will reduce my likelihood to post interesting links by 80% and effortpoasts by 30% 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.4 1.4

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As a heuristic, any decision that seems binary (should I hide) is mis-framed. The question is, what is the skillful way to live in full integrity?... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.9 11.9

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I am of course deliberately invoking the *chan tradition by using such language. It’s a choice. When i write or speak in other contexts, i hide that particular power level. But it does not reveal all.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.4 11.4

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