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Nov 22, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read Read on X
a thing that genuinely disgusts me are politicians who arent proud of the nations they serve

they lack the courage of their convictions, their people can Tell, and their ultimately fall will be shameful
was yelling about this with @selentelechia, I dont recall how we got on the topic but it may have been world war one via tolkien via anti-aging via socialism destroying womens ability to have a fulfilling life outside of the marketplace
she identified the british specifically as people who seem embarrassed to have been an empire at one point and are now basically a backwater

which you know what fucking get over it

you bastards are the heirs of Elizabeth and Pitt and you should act like it
And America! Good God!

Washington sat in that chair! Or one like it, modulo that snafu in 1812. Jefferson! Generations of Adams! Lincoln!
A ragtag army drunk on liberty defeated the most powerful empire on earth to birth this country and you can't spare a moment to take pride in inheriting the system they built with pen and sinew and blood? Image
one should be proud to participate in the continuation of great deeds of the past and aspire to become worthy of it by building on the work of one's forebears

everyone should go read burke immediately
@the_beringian @RevrseSolipsist @HMBroughMD he was a weird guy
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May 26
first pass on a list of 20C-21C slippery slopes that were identified by contemporaries as slippery and which in fact turned out to be slippery Image
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a caveat on some of the above items fwiw, although this objection on my part was more aimed at some historical examples where the weakness was imo stronger Image
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of course this actually strengthens the original "slippery slopes are extremely real actually" point because history is absolutely littered with slopes that even if not recognized as such by contemporaries were seen by historians!
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May 19
one thing many anti-marriage men dont understand about marriage is that yes you are giving one woman vast power over your life.

but you are also reducing to ~0 the amount of power that most non-kin women have over you

with a good woman, this is an exceptional trade
"im a beautiful woman" if you are not my wife i cannot be made to care about that
it's like this

the five canonical substitutes for charm are
* wealth
* fame
* power
* physical beauty, and
* sexual availability

for straight men interacting with women, marriage nullifies the fourth lever and actually inverts the value of the last
Read 4 tweets
May 18
AI is not currently good enough to cause me to lose my job but i expect ive got maybe a year to figure out how to move up several abstraction layers some of which may not even exist yet

this is going to get weird because idk how people starting careers will even begin
my intuition is that having a model of how a function--data, engineering, product, whatever--functions is important to capably automating that function

people who have been operating in those functions for years seem as though they'd have an overwhelming advantage in this
but of course to the extent agents hollow out these functions and displace human labor its hard to imagine firm structures remaining as they exist, designed for human operations

so this probably gets me another year or two max, if i'm working in tech proper
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Mar 27
this was an insane moment in american politics and i want to revisit it

a hospital in gaza was reported by the entire american press corps as having been destroyed by an israeli airstrike with 500 killed

i was on stimulants monitoring the situation in realtime Image
the biden administration, which i assume had access to people who know at least as much about missiles as i do, equivocated about whether or not they believed the israeli explanation that the strike was a failed hamas rocket
in the wee hours of the morning local time, i and others started to notice that there was no actual video of the damage or the "500 killed"

curious
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Mar 10
its fairly crazy to be in a country at war where domestic media are running propaganda operations for the other side

obviously they can print what they like and i sure didnt enjoy the rah-rah of the early GWOT either but nevertheless. sheesh Image
the piece itself, notably, is not just houston chronicle tier writing — its AI generated

the journalists report that economic pain is "multiplying exponentially"

heads up @Phil_Mattingly @ZcohenCNN some asshole slapped your byline on this Image
@Phil_Mattingly @ZcohenCNN ". . . sooner than we can remove the capabilities we want to move"

which is it? moving or removing?

"the latter has the capability the deploy"

its gotten so bad CNN had to lay off their copyeditors and i guess they didnt bother replacing THOSE with LLMs Image
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Jan 17
a major lesson of the awokening for me was that a significant number of people on the left hate me and would prefer i not exist and a majority of the country is willing to go along with policies operating toward that end

this was probably an infohazard
i call it an infohazard because there's really not anything i can do with this information but it leaves me anxious about the future, and experiencing to varying degrees contempt or outright hatred toward people about whom i had previously felt positively
when i look at the political landscape i see two factions wholly unworthy of the inheritance bequeathed to us by our ancestors

the important difference between them is that one is directed by people who would prefer i be erased
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