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Jul 23 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
if we're being utilitarians and discussing "value," , one ought to understand this as an empirical question, and the fact is any economist could glance at this situation and say "looks like most people have lexicographic preferences. next question"

else you're disputing taste the presumption of utilitarians in imposing their preferences on others as an objective reality is their second-most repellent trait
Jul 23 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
hypothesis: ghislaine maxwell is sick of jail and has identified an opportunity to blackmail trump Image
Image i had considered that she might be able to offer to make shit up. but the issue with this is that it perhaps can't be verified either way, and of course she can't be trusted

so her greatest levers are from any verifiable information she might possess Image
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Jul 10 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
i'm watching the grok4 launch and the production values are terrible

slides are worse than i'd create after getting roped into a presentation with 1h notice

you can tell the engineers made them themselves Image elon predicting the model will discover new physics within two years. "let that sink in." a long silence. one engineer laughs awkwardly
Jul 9 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
in any sociopolitical system, the degree to and the manner in which power is centralized may be characterized by the structure of patronage networks

these structures are often more revealing about the nature of government than its nominal type

for example the "kingdom" of france continued continuously for about a millennium depending on how you measure it

but its actual government varied widely

most notably, it transitioned from feudalism to absolute monarchy that occurred under richelieu and at versailles
Jul 4 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
i get it now, this is legit. reddit objects are objects recommended to _entry-level enthusiasts_ by topical subreddits because they work well to improve lives over baseline with a relatively low level of effort for a majority of cases

reddit objects are high ROI!

for example, r/strength_training reddit object

yeah i know other forums came first but its quintessential

is it right everywhere? does everyone need to be doing squats all the time? does it ignore aesthetics?

who cares! way better than default gym behavior Image
Jul 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
nearly broke a tooth eating a frozen pizza tonight

wonder how that got baked in Image ive probably had several hundred frozen pizzas in my life so odds are its safe and economical to continue eating red baron pizzas at $5 a pop
Jun 27 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
they hate how little it takes for us to be happy the women all want to kill her

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Jun 27 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
realistically there's no way to stop people from tacitly or explicitly allocating taxes and benefits on the basis of race and large portions of the country have interests in this happening or ideological commitments to doing so

this is just our life now supreme court rulings arent gonna change anything, no one gives a shit about the law on principle and its easy to obfuscate discrimination to taste

any direct government enforcement will i expect inevitably be straightforwardly politically motivated
Jun 10 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
as long as we're sending insane ideas to @JDVance

does the federal government have to enforce laws everywhere or can it announce it won't?

because one funny thing the administration could do would be to deprioritize the enforcement of most federal laws in sanctuary states >“congrats, california, you're now libertarian af. no OSHA, no IRS audits, no EPA. enjoy.”

it’d be legally coherent and politically thermonuclear. which means someone will definitely try it. Image
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Jun 4 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
hmmm sure ok i'll bite

the rheinweisenlager don't seem that bad tbh

i havent looked at the wikipedia page and wont, just going to attach some commentary and notes on context the rheinweisenlager were a bunch of concentration camps in the original sense where surrendered wehrmacht soldiers were held for several months in 1945

the camps were run by the US, apparently, and that's important
Jun 3 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
my only yarvin story is that we met in a temporary teahouse and he spent an hour watching my kid while moon and i took a break, and he sent us off with advice on early reading for her

it's a small thing but it was a welcome kindness for us, bare acquaintances i'm also happy to say @selentelechia is making great progress
May 17 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
"travel" is fake

no one except lord myles has "adventures" when they travel

you are staying at a hotel, paying large sums of money to have a far worse experience than you could have in your own home and a far softer experience than you could have by spending a weekend in jail "i love to Travel" why have you failed to establish your home as a place of serenity and joy, to the extent that you feel psychically uncomfortable there and strive to get away from your life whenever you can, viewing it as the highest good?

you are not well
May 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this is definitely a failure mode of boy scouts. ive never experienced it but conventional wisdom is that it falls out of an institutional failure mode called an "adult led troop"

in this paradigm a scout troop is like a classroom where scouts just passively consume "activities" what you want to do is foist as much responsibility for direction, planning, and execution on the boys as bodily safety and laws permit: the so-called "boy led troop"

here, the adults are just present for logistics and for keeping things from getting too out of hand
Apr 6 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
ok i have a theory of what happened during the awokening

it came to me while i was discussing the religious character of the prohibition on sucker punching ("what's intolerable is not that the punch lands, but that it refuses to acknowledge the altar" spoiler) Image
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Image male homosocial societies are bound by a number of precepts and principles that guide honorable behavior in a given context. these are separate from "general" religious commandments and from philosophical ethics
Apr 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
look i think the tariffs are retarded but to the extent this is actually evidence of anything its probably evidence *against* SH causing global trade to collapse who cares nothing matters everyone is mad

enjoy arbys
Mar 31 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
publicly registering that i was wrong in my speculation about this. and i'm delighted to eat crow here

i didn't think parliament had it in them.

what's the intuition for why this happened? lol they seem to be throwing the black guy under the bus

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Mar 27 • 18 tweets • 11 min read
grateful to cyan for writing this out

want to add that this also fails because it doesn't actually match the Ghibli style. in fact, the character design is repellent; this is separate from the subject matter

did they even know they were posting slop? compare and contrast Image
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Mar 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
vibe Image its actually fairly good as a commitment device binding on future administrations because this decreases the value of illegal immigrants for all subsequent administrations and it removes the "they pay taxes argument"

obviously it is also rather unsavory
Mar 10 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
i think its reasonable to call this a revolution in the sense that trump doesnt adhere to elite norms nor even middle class norms. and its not clodius pretending to be a plebe, its a pleb not even pretending to be a patrician

throw the mandate of heaven in the trash etc until the first trump term a surprising amount of the president's ability to influence the country was derived less from his potestas--that is, his formal powers--than from his auctoritas, which was closely tied to his dignitas

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Mar 6 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
how do "realists" explain Churchill specifically it seems like yeah you could probably come up with a strategic _rationalization_ for his behavior after the battle of france but the guy was clearly not working on that plane and had just been that way for decades at least

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Mar 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
i think this is probably right and i think something large and bad will happen. everyone is just waiting for it, even.

because we can't keep going like this.

every election cycle is just another circle around the drain i suppose everyone's just going to be pillaging the fisc as the end gets nearer at an increasingly rapid pace

what asset allocation solves this do you think