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I'm going to provide the steelman, and then argue against it orthogonally, because it is a good steelman.... 1d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.8 2.8

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I like the idea. The plan needs work. For example:... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13.9 13.9

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Hereditary monarchy was goofy renaissance fair business even in the 1930s. The leading powers (France, UK, etc) had long replaced theirs or reduced them to symbolism.... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.5 12.5

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I like this idea. I've been cooking something like this, about to raise money. Basically, we're starting such an institution with media and conferences. All the forward deployed philosopher mentoring and all this can basically be built out from there. We g... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.1 9.1

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Fair. I meant "woke" in a more general sense that predates the 2010s. In the 90s it was called "PC". There's a general phenomenon dating back to the 60s, but which got substantially worse recently, where:... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13.2 13.2

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Disagree. If we shut down the O1 program tomorrow it would slightly reduce "non-white immigration" but it would be a big loss to the United States.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.5 11.5

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Valid points, I agree on all counts! These are indeed important considerations. 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.9 1.9

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Very interesting, some parallels to the strategic calculus of the Mission Party in Brazil 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.3 3.3

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As the quote from Strauss (referencing Nietzsche) indicates, man's nature, unlike that of chimpanzee, extends beyond itself to nomos. There is no option to live without nomos. One can only work for a good one, one that harmonizes with and fulfills rather t... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.9 8.9

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The "what are young men supposed to do" question doesn't have a clear one-line answer, as the entire history of western philosophy is the discovery that human life does not contain one-line solutions to fundamental questions.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.3 8.3

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Broader Western aesthetic decline is an separate question.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 18.2 18.2

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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... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 16.8 16.8

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My friends, this is retarded. Never go full retard.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.8 5.8

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What all successful ruling elites seem to do is picking the parts of their nominal ideology that work, while ignoring the parts that don't work.... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.1 9.1

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TR was a Progressive, both by self-identification and public identification. That was already a distinct movement from Liberalism in its received form.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.2 2.2

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The undisputed classic on Liberia, highly recommended if you have not seen it already:... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.4 8.4

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The question of American race relations is a good proxy for one of the most urgent fronts of the deep and fatal problems with philosophical egalitarianism and worldwide kumbaya integrationism. It's therefore worth dwelling on it occasionally in concrete de... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.0 3.0

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I'm okay with the suggestion I must be a fruit or whatever, but I do want to make my conclusion clear.... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.0 8.0

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The socialism will continue until morale improves?... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.8 4.8

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I'm writing a longer article about this but my basic analysis is that the EAs have one big virtue they are fairly unique on: they treat money as a strategic resource to be disposed of rapidly for effective impact, whereas everyone else treats money like a ... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.7 12.7

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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.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.8 12.8

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It's a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg situation. The quality of ideas does matter, but the ideas can adapt and change as long as the initial nucleus of the movement holds together and remains high-quality. Historical EA for example was very good at attractin... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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The article seems to ignore the fact that the greatest economic and industrial success of the last fifty years is China, which simply applied the "Fordism model" for the first time and harder than ever before. 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.1 9.1

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This is exactly right. To be clear, what is interesting is not the Chinese-specific aspects (e.g., Mandarin, Chinese culture & history). Even less is it the genuinely Communist aspects. Rather, it's the way in which China under Deng began to distill a part... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.9 6.9

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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.... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.5 8.5 0.4 0.4

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"The Posh Turn" published in J'accuse Substack reframed my entire understanding of Brexit and its enemies in the British context.... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.5 0.5

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A number of this site's frequent posters, myself included, are trying to fix the institutions that govern us and revive our society. This requires political organization based on Truth, not just collecting a bunch of Truths and then leaning back in your ar... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.5 12.5

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I’m reading Kanbunmyaku(漢文脈) by Mareshi Saito (齋藤 希史) in translation. It is an exploration of what Prof. Saito calls the “literary sinitic context” or kanbunmyaku.... 7mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.2 2.2

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I don’t doubt there were insane people on the darkest corners of the web who said terrible things at every point of internet history, and to the extent they can be persecuted for encouraging violence, they should be.... 7mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.4 3.4

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Overall, a great read. Refreshing and ambitious. A JACKHAMMER against gerontocracy, vetocracy, mediocrity.... 8mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.8 5.8

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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... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.5 7.5

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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... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.7 4.7

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Urbit is a prime illustration of the limits of the theorycel.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 21.3 21.3

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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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.8 12.8

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This describes almost exactly what is explored in this: https://thebutlerian.com/posts/a_case_study.html... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.9 3.9

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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.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14.6 14.6

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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.... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 15.1 15.1

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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. 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.6 3.6

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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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.6 9.6

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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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.9 6.9

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I suppose the irony is intentional—a nakedly sentimental appeal against sentimentalism. So, maybe Wang Xiaodong, writing in 2011, realized the coming importance of affective governance 情感治理 (qínggǎn 情感, here, and the qínghuái 情怀 for t... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.5 1.5

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Absolute truke. Seems like fundamentally the same idea as amphetaminutes and cybernetic lock-in from >>3695. There is something to this idea that certain drugs make people more productive and overall well-suited to 'modern life', which under a Landian fram... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13.6 13.6

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I don't get why people don't take psychedelics when they're in shitty psychological straits that seem to be persistent for an indefinite amount of time. I knew a lot of people in basically clinical or subclinical levels of depression throughout my life, an... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.2 5.2

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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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.3 12.3

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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?... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.5 4.5

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Disagree with this. Many men have achieved impact from appointed office without ever winning an election, often exceeding that of the people who put them there (not to mention outlasting them). Robert Moses is a famous example. And the Chris Rufos of the w... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.0 12.0

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Precisely. LKW also masterfully stayed within the unwritten limits, thereby cementing his impact and legacy.... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14.9 14.9

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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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 16.7 16.7

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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... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.3 3.3

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This is degrowth.... 11mo 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 ... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9

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Mostly agreed but I think this goes beyond an academic exercise. I think there are universal structures that one can discover in history, and this applies to the concept of civilization (which I tried to draw out explicitly and implicitly), which can then ... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.6 6.6

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I don't think that I am missing the point nor do I disagree with you. It is necessary both to be abstract and concrete. You see pundits talking about high minded ideals like "defending Western civilization", making sure "Civilization doesn't collapse", pre... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5

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Not well-versed in this, but a funny aside: Garry Tan’s TikToks average less than 200 views, and he interacts with anyone who comments or even visits his page (which is effectively no one). Seems like an incredibly easy in for anyone trying to reach out. 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.1 5.1

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I want to go on 2 different slightly tangents: (1) on the 'hard' vs 'soft' migration assimilation policies, with a contrast between a muscular assimilationist Singapore and an inclusionary Europe/West of 2015. (2) on the gender / age dynamics of immigratio... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5

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We see this on the street every day. It's obvious the big demographic power of European civilization from the early 20th century is going and gone. Largely this was predictable and predicted a hundred years ago (Stoddard's "Rising Tide" was published 1920)... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.6 8.6

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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am.... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.4 4.4

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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... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.4 12.4

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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... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.8 5.8

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Well i agree with most of the OP essay. Its a bit rationalist and striver coded but of course thats where the smarties are. Let me try to give you some more advice not on there that i could have used, or did use to unique effect.... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.6 9.6

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Here's a piece of advice: if you haven't already, drop everything you are doing, fly to Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia or some other hellhole, and spend a month there to take it all in. 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.3 2.3 3.0 3.0

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The Trump administration can complain about the filibuster once they've actually proposed legislation. Any legislation.... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.3 9.3

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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... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.1 8.1

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I think even acts of intuitive human intelligence are often difficult to explain to other people; perhaps the metaphor of Cassandra is a good reminder how genius is often recognized far too late:... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.5 0.5

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Its the election-related preference cascade. With trump winning as hard as he did, the mercenaries realized they would have to work with trump, the left realized they didn’t know how to oppose the right anymore, and the right realized they wouldn't be op... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.5 6.5

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All of these companies are highly selective in their hiring. Part of what makes the cult work is the kind of people the employees are in the first place.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.8 7.8

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This is a good point. Mere selectivity and a particular culture isn't enough to work in the way I'm speculating will become more normal. The key is going to be ability to actually reproduce human capital, not ability to attract and shape. I'll believe Spac... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.1 6.1

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Yeah good observations but unfortunately I think some people are just locked in to trusting whatever is official. If it's got contradictions, they don't pursue them or fret about them. They are not philosophers. When they do pursue them, they end up in "al... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.9 6.9

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As an example of an institution that is attempting to generate a semblance of autocthonic legitimacy from relatively non-elitist material, see https://www.mcucoop.com/ 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.7 0.7

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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 (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.0 8.0

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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 (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.0 1.0

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Foucault can productively be read as a find-grained theorist of power, in its structures and channels.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.0 9.0

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I must say, his methods for resisting power are intended for the mentally ill and homosexuals, if those should be separated, but his conceptions of those categories are different from those popularly used at present, and they can still be adapted for other... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.6 5.6

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In everyone's favorite family-owned city-state, one sometimes encounters locals with recognizably Portuguese family names such as Pereira, Theseira (Teixeira), Gomes. I only considered the origin of these names much later when exploring the legacy of Roman... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.7 6.7

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Indeed. The difference between what seems possible according to the world of ideas and what actually is possible is potentially large and always the essence of the game. This is why I'm not sure we can put too much stock in the "it can't reference or be mi... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.1 4.1

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