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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 5mo ago with 23 replies received family news

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Unfortunately not. Take the Daniel Penny case. A clear-cut case of "necessary measures", carried out with a healthy amount of restraint, against a habitual violent criminal with 42 arrests. And still half the country was braying for his head. 5mo ago received

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I hope most men reading this would be able to move just fine through an inner city neighborhood. Situational awareness and knowledge that you can handle yourself, as well as a bit of charisma, should be enough. They should be able to adapt, at least. That'... 4w ago received

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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 7mo ago with 34 replies received life eugenics family

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A perfect question for this board. Deeply important, completely taboo to talk about honestly.... 5mo ago received

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I'm attaching a chart of factors associated with with reproductive success.... 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 6mo ago with 27 replies received economics 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.... 6mo ago received

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To answer your question directly: of course a Männerbund is composed of stable men.... 6mo ago received

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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.... 2mo ago received

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Questions on applied eugenics
- With intelligence selection reachable in the horizon, do you want to have a smaller number of smarter kids in, say, five years from now, or a larger number of dummer kids now and a larger number of grandkids later on, who can be selected or genetically e... posted 3mo ago with 2 replies received family

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In five years, it will still be the case that you can imagine the technology getting better in another five years. So you'll wait another five years. And then if all goes well, now it's ten years later and good gene selection tech is available, but it look... 3mo ago received

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Jack Parsons & Human Population Competition
"It is easy to dismiss competitive breeding as the behaviour of primitive people. But even in developed societies you can see it in operation," said Mr Parsons, a Second World War veteran.... (datacritica.wordpress.com) posted 3mo ago with no replies received family

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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 7mo ago with 25 replies received history life family

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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.... 7mo 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.... 7mo 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... 7mo 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 8mo ago with 10 replies received life eugenics 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.... 8mo 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... 7mo 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 12mo 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.... 12mo 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.... 12mo 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 13mo 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... 12mo 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... 12mo ago received

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Creating Top Tier Educational Institutions Once Again
Harvard... posted 13mo ago with 2 replies received family

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The SSC articles on Hungarian education are pretty interesting. This one is about a homeschooling regimen that produced chess grandmasters:... 13mo 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 14mo 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?... 14mo ago received

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Two more for good measure:... 14mo ago received

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The Jocks and the Nerds, allied against the Theater-kids.
"Warriors" and "Merchants" need to ally against the "Priests" - that would be the read from the perspective of Gaetano Mosca to our current situation.... posted 1y ago with 7 replies received politics family

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OK, so that clarifies what you were thinking.... 1y 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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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 2y ago with 9 replies received politics family

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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... 2y 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...... 2y 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 2y 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:... 2y ago received

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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 2y ago with 31 replies received life eugenics 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.... 2y ago received

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman:... 2y ago received

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How should we do startups to retain teleological independence and win real power?
If one has ambition, talent, friends, and a good idea, one can build a successful company in Silicon Valley. But why? Money is nice; you ascend the bourgeois class tournament and get finer luxuries, more respect, better mates, better schools, better friend... posted 2y ago with 17 replies received fieldtrip family

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Real power requires the capacity to do violence. Influencing those with the capacity to do violence is the next best thing, but I’m not sure it’s any substitute.... 2y ago received

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Greed: discourage attention seeking baitposts. Lust: automated porn detection and deletion, especially anything illegal. Pride: guard against group narcissism, including among ourselves. Sloth: a built-in reputation time-decay? Envy: encourage individual s... 2y 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. 2y ago received

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Talent pool for the next regime
There do not seem to be many places in America for someone to become worthy of power. I do not buy that becoming a minor merchant aristocrat by founding an enterprise SaaS company makes one fit to govern. The military seems to be culturally compromised. Su... posted 2y ago with 42 replies received family supercoordination

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I think you're right about software. In "Competition for Power", Mr. Burja writes:... 2y ago received

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Sovreign House 2y 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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