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@eigenrobot
Jun 13, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
"left" is not your enemy

"right" is not your enemy

this shit. this shit right here is your enemy



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new stanford mascot dropped Image
everyone replying "noooooooooooooo this is leftist" is missing my point entirely and/or an idiot child with no institutional memory and no awareness they lack that memory

i think elaborating might help so im going to so that
the social left in america used to love the shit that stanford is aggressively banning. it was in fact basically typified by weird shit that happened on university campuses eg naked dances

did naked dance parties suddenly become right coded, that universities decided to end them
"left" and "right" is shitty and sparse for describing a political space. so you can imagine it being an absolutely gimped axis on which to evaluate absolutely every social dynamic that you ever come across

see point (3) and issues around monocausality Image
have a new goddamn axis for refactoring on me

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"racist" and "sexist" are not _reasons_. they are _excuses_ to do what these people have always wanted to do anyway

some people just want to watch the world banned and theyll use any flimsy rationale that people let them get away with

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@randomstring729 speak of the devil
>students' faith in [Stanford]

annals of the misplaced faith of the young and the lessons accruing to the callow as they are betrayed by purportedly-tutelary institutions
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Sep 16
somewhere along the way i think maybe what happened was, eliezer started believing everything he thought

easy pitfall as you age, probably. IME when you spend enough time thinking, certain things crystalize and you get less patient about the process

happens to everyone prolly
the vital urge to say "ok, how is this wrong" starts to fade as you get older, because you've played that game so many times that it gets tiresome and you start to think you know what that room holds

usually you're right, but it's an easy way to get stuck
second issue is the cost of doing this sort of inquiry gets higher as you accumulate more committed beliefs or expectations

once more, you're usually more likely to be "correct" at any given moment, but updating gets very costly as your world model is built out and solidified
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Sep 13
its been a long week so tonight please relax as i relate to you the tale of a great episode in american autism Image
our third president, thomas jefferson, was immensely autistic

he spent much of his time inventing questionably useful devices, getting hung up on and beefing over irrelevant abstractions, pursuing unwise relationships w subordinates, and recording data for no particular reason Image
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he combined several of these hobbies in an extended incident in the court of france where he was serving as america's ambassador ("minister plenipotentiary") in the mid 1780s, succeeding a real scientist and charmer, benjamin franklin

big shoes to fill! and he tried. awkwardly Image
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Aug 30
pulled the entire 10 volume set of a 1964 children's reading collection from a used bookstore for $18

i regard this as a colossal win

the introduction is worth reading as a contrast to contemporary pedagogical philosophy. implicit here is a colossal cultural loss Image
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i went to the bookstore to kill time between helping out with a medical emergency but found myself moved to buy these after recalling a trip to the library yesterday with my 4yo, when i noticed the entire children's section was Feelings slop

meanwhile, in 1964: Image
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after my first find i wandered to my favorite bookstore in Minneapolis and found another children's anthology, this one first published in the 1920s (unfortunately incomplete)

~$15, BOGO

as with the other collection, the prefaces contain much ancient wisdom lost to our time Image
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Aug 29
this explains a lot about what's going on, for those of you paying attention
additional context

america probably has the most productive agricultural land on earth not regularly subjected to wars of extermination Image
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"why are these soils good" because theyre basically steppes but with rain Image
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Aug 26
fyi trump ppl

the reason that nerds are unhappy about trump firing federal reserve people isnt because they particularly like those specific people

issue is that it makes the fed look beholden to the executive and this is a very bad outcome for economic stability
the fed hasnt covered itself in glory lately for sure but the counterfactual where its progressively and openly politicized is pretty much just a world of hyperinflation and impoverishment because thats a side effect of how unstable governments use politicized central banks
i think a steelman for "end the fed" is that we've left this absurdly powerful yet nigh defenseless institution sitting in plain sight like a loaded gun during a period of immensely high trust and as that period comes to a close someone is gonna make a first grab at the pistol
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Aug 24
ok finally discovered a kind of lore i want to know about in a non clickbait way:

what one-shotted you?

eg for me it was 90s movies about how having a career and a house in the burbs is the worst thing that can ever happen to someone

i didn't realize i'd been Had until my 30s
everyone will give boomers and millennials shit about the social justice and narcissism, and rightly so. but the motherfuckers who tricked me into nearly ruining my life are genx
for those of you not familiar getting one shotted is getting wrecked on first contact with something. classic deployment attached Image
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