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- viccis 7mo ago>The purpose of the Ukrainian military is to get stuck in a years-long stalemate with Russia. >These are obviously false. The purpose of the Ukrainian military is to exhaust the Russian army's materiel and test out our weapons. "Years-long stalemate with Russia? Yes, please." -the US. Seems like an overwhelmingly common Scott Alexander L.
- eru 7mo ago> The purpose of the Ukrainian military is to exhaust the Russian army's materiel and test out our weapons. Since when does country A decide what the purpose of country B's military is?
- viccis 7mo agoSince country A pays for country B's military.
- TeMPOraL 7mo agoIn practice, always. It's similar to the claim that during the cold war, US basically controlled USSR economy, and vice versa, and that US won because USSR economy just couldn't keep up. On smaller scale, this is the (in)famous "fire and motion"[0], which works in business as much as it does in military tactics. Make a move, forcing competitors to respond to it. If you're better at it than them (and lucky), you can choose your moves to make their responses go to your advantage. -- [0] - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
- verzali 7mo agoScott Alexander often seems surprisingly unaware of his priors, especially when speaking about things beyond the American shores.
- vasco 7mo agoIs the purpose of replying to Wikipedia with random substack drivel to get downvoted? Or is it a byproduct of the system?
- eru 7mo agoWell, that's not what the system does. So it can't be its purpose, I guess. In any case, the blog is well regarded in these circles.
- actionfromafar 7mo agoI was shocked at how shallow that take is. I expected more.
- Orygin 7mo agoWhy does the page have a non-removable blue filter? Feels like a popup shadow that doesn't go away...
- khimaros 7mo agothank you for sharing. i typically like his writing but didn't find this one terribly insightful. however, from his follow-up post https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-posiwid https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comment...: > When people insist on the confusing and inappropriately-strong version, I start to suspect that the confusingness is a feature, letting them smuggle in connotations that people would otherwise correctly challenge. i find this comical because it reads like a slightly-differently-worded POSIWID argument :)