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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.... 4d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.2 11.2

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Everyone in this thread is mostly on the money in my opinion, and most especially... 3d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.8 3.8

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It depends on the level of wealth you're looking at. There are a lot of people quietly stacking up their eight figures in tech and finance by being pretty good at something technical, being very good at office politics, and conscientiously making calculate... 5d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.2 2.2

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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 10.9 10.9

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I’ll give a higher effort response later but one point i will be pedantic on: what is happening since the sexual revolution is not mating. Actual mating still largely happens on the traditional monogamous model, despite some decay around the edges. The s... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.2 8.2

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Great post and timing for it. Will write a related piece for the conversation soon.... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.6 0.6 1.6 1.6

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The example from the text about Rodolphe Salis could be a good counterpoint to this. Yes, there is no tastemaking aristocracy. Yes, the upper echelons of the merchant class is dominated by meme brained spreadsheet maximizers but this doesn't mean cultural ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.2 8.2

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Of course I agree with this. It can be rephrased thus: it is on the artists and intellectuals themselves to fund the cultural restoration, because the capitalists aren't going to help until we've already won. At best they will buy pieces once their merit i... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.8 5.8

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Instead of suggesting changes on the national level, which I don't believe any of us have control over, let's turn this into practical advice for people reading the thread. If we should ban seed oils, we should not consume seed oils, if the FDA should end ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.8 11.8

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Ray peat website has best articles on PUFA aka seed oils.... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.2 0.2

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This was depressingly lucid. Canada is fucking toast, in all likelihood it will never recover. Your post is more like a post-mortem. It's consistent with >>2964 in the Canadian context. Brazil to the South, Brazil inside, Brazil to the North. The two most ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.6 10.6

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Its a good question, I'd need to think about it. I have never followed Canadian politics closely but there's little hope except for Alberta and Quebec to gain some form of Nationhood ... the rest of the state doesn't exist as a nation in any meaningful sen... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.6 9.6

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This is degrowth.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.2 10.2

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My understanding is that the biggest cities have always been fertility-negative on average for as long as we've had cities. But you are right that the most civilized types of men are the result of city-related selection. So what's going on? Would first of ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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Not a bad explanation of how to salami-slice it given existing social rules and norms.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5

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What explicitly happened is that Western elites decided on a different megaproject: global race communism. The "Great Society" and "Global Development." That is where all this wasted money is going. Today, you can call this a political arrangement that can... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 15.6 15.6

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As a matter of historical fact, the communism part came first, then later the race part was added, and then the global part was added. 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5

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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 7.1 7.1

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Look no comment on the current regime and its lack of tact. I support their priorities but there's obviously a lot of dumb stuff going on. In any case I consider it orthogonal to what we should be doing in theory and i wish not to be constrained by their r... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.2 5.2

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Great experiment.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.3 9.3

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I'm with the other anon >>3068 on advising against just training the kids into company-starting bourgeois mode of being. The interesting thing would be something closer to an Asian-style industrial conglomerate: take care of your people in their whole live... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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What is the point of existence? What is the goal of society? This article seems to just make a bunch of unstated assumptions about how society ought to be a singular optimizer for some kind of collective fairness or something, and derive from that that we ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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“In-group members have access in that particular industry to more talent, more capital, more assistance via their ethnic and family connections.”... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.0 3.0

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Collapse is not the end. Collapse is the winter.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7 0.7 0.7

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That sounds plausible to an economist, but "opportunity cost" is about what you value and how you narrativize the alternatives. It's not quite as simple as "people would rather have money than children", it's rather a whole lifestyle and worldview they've ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.0 10.0

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Thank you for the breath of fresh air. I wholly agree that status is not the most important factor. The economic arguments seem completely unconvincing as it doesn't explain how in terms of "leisure time, space, and childcare help" the average person was m... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.4 8.4

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I have seen intellectuals propose quite a few different galaxy-brain explanations for why a philosopher-king might do something like Trump's tariffs. Each of these explanations is internally coherent, but they're quite different from each other and often c... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.2 11.2

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this criticism sounds wise but it has no substance. Who even is invoking global macro doomerism, moral narratives, or the "global trading system"? CTRL-F tells me its only you, anon. The basic subject at hand is the financial unsustainability of a trade de... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.9 5.9

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The Trump administration can complain about the filibuster once they've actually proposed legislation. Any legislation.... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.6 8.6

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this 1999 stormfront framing of the issue is weak and vulgar. It presumes way too much from grievance group ethics and just tries to get the white man in on the moral patient grift. The real issue here is european civilization as a transcendent higher thin... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.5 7.5

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Loaded question. Trump is not crashing anything--market participants determine market pricing. Trump's recent policy initiatives have reduced investor confidence, at least over a short or medium-term duration. The markets are fickle, and contain many diffe... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.6 6.6

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If tariffs were going to cause short term pain but long term gain, then financial markets would be reacting favorably. They're not.... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.1 9.1

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Interesting. I'm skeptical of the existence of beneficial drugs. I always thought it was a dumb cope when Americans are like "yeah China might control the means of production but our pharma industry is bigger. It's like having a bigger entertainment indust... 8mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.0 4.0

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I have a finance friend who owns a lot of equity in farmland as part of his prepper-oriented portfolio. 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.8 0.8

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Buying drones doesn't particularly help you build drones. Unless it's just a handful for reverse engineering and inspiration. I think if your drone sports were to be leveraged into something industrially useful, it would start by making drones do something... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.8 9.8

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consumer demand is a complete red herring here. Consumers should not be buying drone swarms or even thinking about it. The question is whether hackers are building novel stuff and then getting into manufacturing, and then whether the manufacturing ecosyste... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.2 7.2

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Again, I really like this general idea. That's why I'm motivated to press a bit on the technical details. Please take this pressing as entirely friendly.... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.7 10.7

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There had been a thread on high software profit margins, which has since disappeared off sofiechan. The OP on hackernews might still be relevant (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904339):... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.2 1.2

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If we're going to delve into economics, I would advocate including the modern Austrians in addition to the conventional neoclassical authors like Marshall.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.2 2.2

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