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in thread "On the Erosion of Society, Erroneous Optimism, & what should replace it":

Some time in the mid 2030s, a certain society of anonymous gentlemen philosophers published their final treatise, "on the reversal of bioleninism". It laid out an arrangement of social institutions which would result in an entirely new set of political-eco... 2mo ago received

Some time in the mid received

Ok all true. I took liberties for the sake of interestingness. What’s a world we can actually get given pessimistic or at least realistic assumptions? What does our society of anonymous gentlemen philosophers do without the convenient self destruction of... 2mo ago received

Ok all true. I took received

There is one all-important kind of growth that does not seem to be correlated with cities at all and is in fact disastrously anticorellated with them to the point of being the fatal achilles heel of civilization as such. By comparison all of today’s cele... 2mo ago received

There is one all-imp received

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 received

My understanding is received