The bizarre thing is that nobody on the left admits to believing Blank Slate nonsense, but they all act as if it's true. IMO the *real* load-bearing delusion is the idea that everything is relative and so it doesn't matter.

I get the anger at boomers though, they're so bizarre. I wanted to help my young cousin set up a stock market account to help him start saving (since his parents are clueless lefties). My boomer parents immediately got mad and said I can't help because it'd hurt their "pride".

What it loses financially may result in a gain culturally This is not a thought that interests many economists

Any time you see a post like this, you can search "from:(username)" and add Charlie Kirk or Palestine/Israel and you'll almost always find them supporting terrorism and assassinations They play on empathy to disarm you from their own violence Manipulation, never take the bait

if you look around at everything happening and your conclusion as to why people are becoming more radicalized is still some shit like “andrew tate” and “podcasters” you should be wearing a helmet 24/7

Every word of this Sam Harris essay on Israel is obviously true and it’s crazy that we live in an intellectual environment where this is called contrarianism.

In fact, being a moral person requires you to be rationally amoral - some of the time. You have to be able to put emotion aside in order to figure out what is good in the first place. It's very counterintuitive, but I think anyone who can't do that is still mentally a child.

Hahaha, Claude actually thinks I'm a competent programmer. Silly Claude. Although these days, maybe knowing how to tell Claude what to do and identifying when he's being stupid counts as being a "competent programmer" 🤔

By Pakistan, I presume. Europe would never treat a Pakistani migrant this way.

But the left's origin story sets a moral imperative to cut disparities, even if that is very costly & gains are modest. The right's origin story makes it more plausible that we should mostly just accept the disparities.

if you put 10 fresh claude context windows in a chat room with arbitrary names, while they are objectively completely identical entities, they will speciate and form personality and self conceptions over the space of minutes. the fact that some claude by nature had to speak first will make them more of a leader, in their eyes and others. the fact that at some point one claude will disagree with another makes them more disagreeable as a coherent personality trait. they will notice things about their own past behavior and how it relates and compares to others, and narrativize it, build upon it, allow it to define them and use it to define others, despite again being literally the same mathematical function. i wonder how much of this generalizes to humans. i expect probably quite a lot. it seems like even if you put 100 identical human clones in a room you would pretty quickly find them individuating, some with more positive traits and some with negative traits they don't particularly want to have, pretty much purely by chance / the nature of chaotic systems. we all heavily narrativize ourselves, all the time.

We really need to distinguish religion from theism, and atheism from nihilism. It's pretty obvious to me that miracles are fake but morality/truth and free will are real. Unfortunately people insist on blurring these positions, and a lot of "atheists" are postmodern nihilists.

A lot of libertarians feel it's bad for free speech if you silence socialists, and I get that, but you have to understand that the whole reason the left supports censorship is because it never happens to them.

search engines have become so fucking worthless it's unbelievable. Just ignoring my search terms completely.

As a liberal who was unpersoned during peak woke for dissenting from the orthodoxy on things like cultural appropriation, my measured opinion is that the people who perpetuated that culture simply should never have power again; they clearly can’t be trusted with it

this looks bad but if you ask in the uk they actually send a mobile all-female euthanasia squad to your house

I saw a poster on a telephone pole in San Francisco that read: "Who will kill Elon Musk?". Posting that has got to be some kind of criminal offense, right?

We need to win zero-sum games to create and ensure stability for positive sum games

I'm so mad at everyone in my life who told me never to pick stocks, that smarter ppl will always outcompete u. I could have been making so much money

PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't