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The way science is structured is already extremely hierarchical, though. Go to any biology or physics program. You'll find a small number of PIs (principal investigators) and a large number of graduate students. The grad students are basically doing what t... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.5 0.5

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It's an interesting idea. The key questions are... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.9 7.9

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I'm unsure whether the goal of the house would be to just have a crypto startup with a bunch of jacked frat guys or to actually achieve something spiritually legitimate. 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.8 0.8

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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.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14.4 14.4 0.6 0.6

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To answer your question directly: of course a Männerbund is composed of stable men.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 16.0 16.0

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part of it, I believe, is because below the upper strata of society this model is degenerating quickly. They are indeed "islands" of prosperity ala Latin America.... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.4 0.4

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The good news is that IQ alone is not everything. The bad news is--they increasingly have the rest. I see a lot of rank cope about China.... 8mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.1 11.1

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Western policy evidence/epistemology died by journo. China builds 100 million homes, a western journo finds a few developers doing shady things. This grows popular as a way to claim China is a paper-tiger because that narrative serves pre-existing fights w... 8mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.9 4.9

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I’ll the peripheral argument about the nature of the Chinese first.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.6 9.6 0.1 0.1

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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.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.2 2.2

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The fundamental problem is neither interest rates too high nor interest rates too low. It's how interest rates are set.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.3 8.3

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I think you hit the nail on the head. The original post is mostly due to the fact that low interest rates are the typical (and most recent) manipulation that has put us into our current situation. 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.6 1.6

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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.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14.2 14.2

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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... 10mo 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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.3 6.3

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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... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.7 7.7

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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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.3 2.3

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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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.6 2.6

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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.... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.5 11.5

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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... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.0 8.0

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Great post and timing for it. Will write a related piece for the conversation soon.... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.6 0.6 1.7 1.7

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I think Avetis Muradyan has good taste. I think his conclusion is right, even if I would get there in a different way. I wish that MFA students were the sorts of communists that Walter Benjamin was talking about. I wish that we had the sort of fascist art ... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.9 8.9

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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... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.0 6.0

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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 ... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.9 11.9

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Ray peat website has best articles on PUFA aka seed oils.... 11mo 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 ... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.5 10.5

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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... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.5 9.5

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This is degrowth.... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.8 10.8

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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 ... 11mo 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.... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.0 2.0 2.2 2.2

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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... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 15.7 15.7

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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. 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5

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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... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.0 3.0

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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 ... 13mo 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.”... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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Collapse is not the end. Collapse is the winter.... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.6 1.6 0.5 0.5

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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 ... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.4 10.4

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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... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.8 8.8

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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... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.5 12.5

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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... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.9 5.9

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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.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.1 9.1

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Monarchy in Yarvin's sense (per OP) need not be hereditary and typically is not.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.3 5.3

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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... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.3 4.3

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I have a finance friend who owns a lot of equity in farmland as part of his prepper-oriented portfolio. 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.7 0.7

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To refresh, I (OP) was saying that there are classes of software applications that enable access to hard power, and they are hidden in plain sight among vastly less useful applications. Think Blender (real) vs Figma (fake). I was also saying the general sh... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.4 7.4

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One of my old friends from Berkeley wanted to design a new power supply for an amp. He designed it from scratch, used open source PCB design software and had it printed for him by a company specializing in such things.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.2 4.2

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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... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.6 10.6

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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... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.2 7.2

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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.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.1 2.1

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There are some interesting ideas about how to implement societal scalability around similar tenets:... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.5 0.5

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