How to thrive in the animistic Universe (as a post-rationalist)?
Mar 19 • 26 tweets • 7 min read
> central problem with Varoufakis’s book is that he just doesn’t have a good theory of how the cloudalists coerce regular people to perform various kinds of labor for them.
- 19th Amendment (women voting)
- decriminalization of homosexual activity
- abandonment of warrior society
- mass franchise
etc etc 2/
Apr 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
which of these divisions would you soonest accept in a utopian society?
1 is transcendental and very incendiary
2 results exoterically in 3 blocks: M, F and O (Other), F-O alliance and alienation of M (incels) and the vibe of participation trophy just for belonging
3 is inefficient economically
4 seems to give the most fine-grained control
Jun 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Democracy from the POV of game theory🧵
'democracy' is simply plus sum game of the State-for-citizens
it's obviously at cost of everything outside
war is the primary means of democratic venture
pirate ship
Jun 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Predator mindset
Lots of rest, short bursts of energy
High risk high reward
Herbivore mindset
Works all the time, low energy
Jan 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
!!! important
which is the better term? with better vibes around it, wider appeal / recognition?
(assuming you agree that they are equivalent, please reply if you disagree)
fyi: my prior is that Gnon is physical laws that are experimental + emergent forms into which higher level aggregates settle (e.g. a form of a tree is Gnon-sanctioned in Earth gravity and carbon-water life)
Moloch being the less absolute social and psychological path dependence
Jan 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
independent from regime world history textbook - what would it cover?
What I'd expect:
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prehistory from @Peter_Nimitz 's threads
antiquity from BAM
high middle ages - as period of prosperity and free cities (Hanza, Novgorad)
Jan 22, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
EXIT from anarcho-tyranny🧵
a TL;DR interpretation of the historical - political part of @Outsideness 's zerophilosophy.substack.com/p/note-on-diag…
Early modern right-left spectrum was between monarchy, embodying centralized order in the dusk of feudalism and local warlords and barons, who were the decentralized disorder en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_ba…
