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[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas
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Old: epistemic humility
Bold: epistemic humiliation
TESCREAL is structurally an evangelical a-theist religion descended from the 19th century Russian Orthodox christianity of Nikolai Fyodorovitch Fyodorov and in my new book I will—
Hannu Rajaniemi beat us all to the punch all the way back in 2010, didn’t he? The Sobornost are exactly who the Rationalists want to be when they grow up.
There’s something about how these weird ideologies grow and how people get trapped in them that reminds me of oncogenesis.
When a cancer forms, cell lines experience a typical progression where a lineage accumulates mutations which aren’t that bad individually, but combine in the aggregate to cause havoc. The cells close themselves off from outside communication and lose all capacity for repairing genomic damage or heeding signals to slow out-of-control growth. Environmental factors like pollution and ionizing radiation can predictably push otherwise benign cells in that direction; the same cancer can develop in thousands or millions of people independently via convergent shit-evolution.
It rhymes, doesn’t it?
The Dominic Cummings we have at home
How would you first approach explaining this shit past “it can’t be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong”?
This is the question of the moment, isn’t it?
I have no answers, but i can say thanks for being a light in the dumbness.
Oof, thanks!
Big Yud is the all-time champion of shooting his mouth off from the hip.
BTW, there is evidence emerging that all of this is a downstream consequence of chronic pain from a back injury. As a lifting-things enthusiast who mildly tweaked their back once, whew, I can see this being a thing.
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione
Command & Conquer, but Kane is a woman and also correct.