I've read the entire article and I agree. Politics is garbage. 99% of it is manipulation of our primitive brains. After reading this, I am now a fan. I would be very interested to read "How To Get Clean" if it was published. Please consider publishing it soon, and get well.
i read this article a few months ago and whenever i get too involved in politics i remember this and go back to re-read it. it's really good and really thorough and really a cleansing piece of writing.
Useful and very incomplete is the best way I can describe this.
Your thought experiment asks about percentage upside, and what’s still left over to do. Very good question. “After communism, then what?” also has a non-utopian downside variant, though, which can be far more than 10% difference to your life. It has often been 100%. As Taleb noted re: investors, “rational” models that fail to take total loss and exit into account aren’t rational.
Addressing the “you’re not just a bugman who lives for itself, you are also legitimately part of larger things with corresponding duties, which you can neglect but not discard” deficit here is a whole other article.
The huffers and addicts DO need to read your piece.
AND they’ll be gravely damaged if they stop there. Much as the Red Pill is a necessary waypoint but a poor stopping place.
I usually use the metaphor of political thermodynamics, I have found that quite a lot can be explained not only by analogy to evolution, but also statistical mechanics in physics :)
One of your biggest hits, thank you. So, Tech —> Cult —> Pol —> Addictions/Madness? Each step up the ladder extracts dumb and gay addictions out of the cool things and outsourcing labor can be dangerous to the primitive mind?
as a 16-year-old high school student, this was the most enlightening thing i have ever read
I've read the entire article and I agree. Politics is garbage. 99% of it is manipulation of our primitive brains. After reading this, I am now a fan. I would be very interested to read "How To Get Clean" if it was published. Please consider publishing it soon, and get well.
i read this article a few months ago and whenever i get too involved in politics i remember this and go back to re-read it. it's really good and really thorough and really a cleansing piece of writing.
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Have always felt this way but couldn’t put it to words nearly as well
Useful and very incomplete is the best way I can describe this.
Your thought experiment asks about percentage upside, and what’s still left over to do. Very good question. “After communism, then what?” also has a non-utopian downside variant, though, which can be far more than 10% difference to your life. It has often been 100%. As Taleb noted re: investors, “rational” models that fail to take total loss and exit into account aren’t rational.
Addressing the “you’re not just a bugman who lives for itself, you are also legitimately part of larger things with corresponding duties, which you can neglect but not discard” deficit here is a whole other article.
The huffers and addicts DO need to read your piece.
AND they’ll be gravely damaged if they stop there. Much as the Red Pill is a necessary waypoint but a poor stopping place.
do you actually pay for this?
intelligent society takes another L
The ramblings of a low wit teenager.
Germ theory of politics is a great term!
I am going to steal that ^^
I usually use the metaphor of political thermodynamics, I have found that quite a lot can be explained not only by analogy to evolution, but also statistical mechanics in physics :)
Great post!
One of your biggest hits, thank you. So, Tech —> Cult —> Pol —> Addictions/Madness? Each step up the ladder extracts dumb and gay addictions out of the cool things and outsourcing labor can be dangerous to the primitive mind?