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How to catch a wife, 2025 edition.
Anon asks how to find a good woman in 2025. I've been out of the game for a while and experience only generalizes so much, but success is informative, so I have some thoughts.... posted 4mo ago with 34 replies received eugenics life family

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A perfect question for this board. Deeply important, completely taboo to talk about honestly.... 2mo ago received

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At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in the stilt longhouse of Migāra’s mother in the Eastern Monastery. Then Visākhā, Migāra’s mother, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to her:... 1mo ago received

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We can't keep living like this - murder of Iryna Zarutska
I'm very upset by this. I was reluctant to watch the un-edited video full video, but I did. We can't keep living like this.... posted 2mo ago with 21 replies received news family

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The general situation is of long standing. There's been plenty of elite-coddled, racially directed violence from the late 1960's and onward.... 2mo ago received

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This is key. However, it results not merely from a personal lack of virtues, but also from a large asymmetry in the landscape of prestige and power that is upstream of ideology. The Cathedral has not been displaced. This is why populist agitation of the so... 1mo ago received

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What goes on the reading list for the Students?
When someone is properly enlightened and can think outside the lies of the age, we say "he's done the reading". There are some obvious candidates for what that reading is exactly; the current classics like Moldbug, Land, and BAP for example. The 20th centu... posted 3mo ago with 28 replies received bookclub family

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I’m skeptical of the “obvious” list. Unless "online discussion groups" counts, these lists don't represent a distinct tradition. I'm tired of seeing scraps of disparate canons taped up together. It seems like these recommendations, separated from any... 3mo ago received

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"Western ideology … might be summed up in the belief that "Truth unfolds in time through a communal process."... 2mo ago received

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Can you get stable people to join a Männerbund?
I've been floating the idea of getting groups of young men around to do things, but it seems those with clock-in-clock-out careers, a house in the suburbs, a car, and a salary consider this to be the good life: normal and wonderful. They're telling me with... posted 3mo ago with 24 replies received family

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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.... 3mo ago received

Living in a nice nei received

To answer your question directly: of course a Männerbund is composed of stable men.... 3mo ago received

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This is the line that exposes the whole essay as (unfortunately) completely unserious. The market is very, very good at ensuring that the flow of global commerce continues to flow. There are tens of millions of very smart whites and asians who are devoting... 2mo ago received

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The Gay Question (Asylum Mag): homosociality vs sodomy
An explosive thesis: the centrality of male homoeroticism to premodern production of manliness and great men. We're all familiar by now with a few key ideas:... (web.archive.org) posted 4mo ago with 25 replies received history life family

The Gay Question (As received

Very much agree with this perspective. However insightful the essay is, I think the author is ghey. While not overly important I do think it clouds his judgement in terms of the importance of the erotic dimension of male bonding.... 4mo ago received

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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.... 4mo ago received

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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... 4mo ago received

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Remedial sex ed for zoomers: you're still an incel in the eyes of God
Millennial "dating" woes are going viral again, with gen z set up to do even worse (nearly half are incels). Fertility rates are spiraling. All discourse on the subject is from terminally ngmi femcels who have no idea what they are talking about. As a mill... posted 4mo ago with 10 replies received eugenics life family

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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.... 4mo ago received

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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... 4mo ago received

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No to conventional education
I was thinking , connecting to how it would be better to educate a young prince, on how to get a better and more rounded education than conventional. More and more people every year are getting non-conventional education, many are homeschooled, others just... posted 9mo ago with 3 replies received family

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The important thing to pursue is a coherent, modern program of liberal arts. That's not Great Books. Great Books is a off-target 20th-century reaction to the late 19th-century collapse of the liberal arts.... 9mo ago received

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First, I agree with most of what you say, though I want to make a case for classical languages like Greek or Latin as the natural means to learn the first three.... 9mo ago received

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Bad influences on my intellectual side
I have been having a hard time performing well in an underwhelming environment. Mostly because of people but also general vibes. I feel it is much harder to thrive in such an environment. I sometimes feel subconsciously justified in not pushing as hard as ... posted 9mo ago with 5 replies received family

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I think my first piece of advice would be to develop your communication skills. I read the post a couple times, and I'm still not sure what sort of situation you're describing. But before becoming a better writer, work at becoming a better conversationalis... 9mo ago received

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Another thing to consider doing is setting yourself an intellectual challenge to grow in a way you want to and work towards it. This is similar to #2585 but I'd encourage that you actively try to create something as well. When you read a great work, you sh... 9mo ago received

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Creating Top Tier Educational Institutions Once Again
Harvard... posted 9mo ago with 2 replies received family

Creating Top Tier Ed received

The SSC articles on Hungarian education are pretty interesting. This one is about a homeschooling regimen that produced chess grandmasters:... 9mo ago received

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New Mag Cooperation - Rumors of Discontent
Palladium’s publication frequency has recently been inconsistent, with the most current article in the most recent issue dating back to 2022. Its purpose should be to provide a reliable platform for uniting thinkers and policy innovators from key hubs li... posted 11mo ago with 11 replies received news family

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OP it sounds like you should write a Palladium article on "pressing topics such as H1B visas, industrial policy, literacy rates, [or] population decline." As >>2315 suggests, these things don't grow on trees, and like any magazine Palladium is bottlenecked... 11mo ago received

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First, I would like to thank the Founders of Palladium and its predecessor publications. The transition from far outside the Overton window to Muscular Centrism was masterful and would have failed in the hands of almost anyone else.... 10mo ago received

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Ranking Socio-Economic Factors
I understand this tweet thread as saying there is some feature F that is mostly innate that determines the wellbeing and health of a society. Some people have F and when they're with others who have F, they naturally create the Good Society the way beavers... (x.com) posted 10mo ago with 7 replies received eugenics family

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I like the luther analogy. Let's stop buying the indulgences, and start calling out the true nature of socio-economic salvation. But what does that entail in practice?... 10mo ago received

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Two more for good measure:... 10mo ago received

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Pedagogy
One characteristic I've observed with non-parents in our circles is that they have strong opinions about pedagogy and child-rearing (despite having zero firsthand knowledge of anything other than their own childhoods and a lot of extremist literature).... posted 1y ago with 6 replies received family

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Sample lesson kernel which can encompass many winding detours: The Collatz Conjecture.... 1y ago received

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How did Effective Altruism get so big?
I disagree with many of the views behind EA, but I've been fascinated by how they managed to make institutions, build a scene, start companies, NGOs, get funding, etc.... posted 1y ago with 14 replies received politics rationality family

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Some good stuff here on the ideological and intellectual content of Effective Altruism, and how that package fit the zeitgeist. That's half the story.... 1y ago received

Some good stuff here received

Right, you can't serious probe and weigh these questions without getting into questions of ends that are ultimately not utilitarianism.... 1y ago received

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The internet social apocalypse and its solutions
folks over on twitter are complaining that all the twisty little passages full of unique social subcultures have been dissolved into a single global free market of slop. Elon giveth, and Elon taketh away. It seemed like an interesting topic so let's have a... posted 1y ago with 9 replies received politics family

The internet social received

I honestly don’t see much change over the past few years. Twitter was pretty good but not amazing then, and it’s pretty good but not amazing now. My group chats are much like they were before, maybe a hair sharper. What differences are you guys complai... 1y ago received

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Instead of being nostalgic, it occurred to me that I might give an example of a platform that has survived the social apocalypse...... 1y ago received

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Road Trip Week 3: Many meetings towards a grand plan for sofie chan
Having arrived last week in the last homely house before our long journey into the wilds of the east and south, I've had many meetings. I've been meeting especially with business-minded and philosophical friends to talk about sofiechan strategy. A week in ... posted 1y ago with 2 replies received meta family

Road Trip Week 3: Ma received

Happy 248th birthday, America. 1y ago received

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What would you like to teach your kids (that you did not know yourself at the age of majority)? / Clear guidance for sons
I am being selfish. I think there will be some dedicated fathers reading this. I would like to hear your opinions.... posted 1y ago with 1 reply received family

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I have one son so far. I figure the main thing I want for him is the stuff I would want in retrospect for myself:... 1y ago received

I have one son so fa received

Clear guidance for women
Although I expect that most here will be men, I want to ask: What should we encourage young women to do?... posted 1y ago with 31 replies received eugenics life family

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Rereading Proverbs 31 it's clear how much it's gesturing at founding a *specifically great/noble* family as being part of the calling.... 1y ago received

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman:... 1y ago received

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Thoughtcrime is the first discipline in the art of ideology.
Your initiation and first exercise in the martial art of ideology is to think something, and really truly believe it, that would get you arrested if you said it in public. If you can't do this, you are intellectually boxed in. You are cut off from reality ... (www.paulgraham.com) posted 2y ago with 4 replies received rationality family

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>>1296 seems somewhat relevant with regard to this discussion. The timer is ticking. 1y ago received

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Jubensha; The Chinese Game The West Needs, But Has Never Heard Of
https://deng.poker/jubensha posted 2y ago with 6 replies received family

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Are aesthetics really primary when seeking converts?
A common theme I see in some circles online is that many political opinions and other social convictions are downstream of aesthetics. This leads to a sort of propagandizing via art and literature, appeals to physical beauty, etc.... posted 2y ago with 15 replies received politics family

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This feels like overthinking. Mathematicians are lefty because mathematicians are academics and academics are lefty. Call it aesthetics or whatever why people are drawn to what are propagandized as beautiful ideas within their formative environments, but I... 2y ago received

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That is to say, if everyone who can be good is attempting to be good, then we need no other plans. If God is real then He will guide us; if not, then our efforts are already in vain. 2y ago received

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The lesson of Greta Thunberg
I have been thinking a lot about Greta Thunberg for the past few months. I must be the last one. Her reappearance at an Extinction Rebellion protest confirmed her irrelevance. Brief commentary on that was generated only by the anonymous wag that edited the... posted 2y ago with 4 replies received politics family

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About generations, I've noticed in my own life that I get more out of the older generations every time I become more mature. Now in my 30s with some kids and successes under my belt it's quite pleasant to learn from and help out the olds in my life. I thin... 2y ago received

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The martial art of ideology
The best idea on Lesswrong was the martial art of rationality. It didn't deliver.... posted 2y ago with 24 replies received philosophy rationality family

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Rationality is the virtue of thought and I think it's good to keep the term around, but it isn't the father of virtue, since sometimes it is prudent to stop thinking, and because a lot of activities are better without thought.... 2y ago received

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Interesting. I need to be more consistent with the Romanization. It is a pet peeve of mine that the usual Romanization of the Peking dialect promulgated by the government... 2y ago received

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