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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf](gwern.net)
88 points by froasty 6y ago|14 comments
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by froasty 6y ago
This is where reddit's meta-culture was at in 2008: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1q0d9/the_bush_... It turns out that you really can't have both community and scale. The attem
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by froasty 6y ago
If you don't know where they are, it's probably because they don't want you to know where they are. The fact is that nuanced discussion doesn't scale. It requires a small core of dedicated users that can't get dro
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by froasty 6y ago
From two years ago: "O Lord, this zealotry to punish the heretics could easily escape from the control of God's chosen and not only destabilize society but also cause us to perform un-Christlike deeds that the Church shall repent
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by froasty 6y ago
I wish more people would hop on board the info train, which is what the "up / next / previous" style of hypertext comes from (thanks again, Richard Stallman). People love to shit on info because its default viewer uses e
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by froasty 6y ago
It's an election year. Breaking up tech monopolies polled well among millennials. This is a phishing net for contact information.
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by froasty 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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by froasty 6y ago
> The concept of "surrogate activity" breaks down once you understand human action. Whether in pre-historic African savanna or in modern-day NYC, people always act to improve their present conditions. Have you read Jacques Ellu
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by froasty 6y ago
Would you be any more charitable or engaging with the entire argument if I replaced "don't know how to", an implicitly ambiguous phrase that entertains both forgetting and lack of mastery, with an explicitly cumbersome varian
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by froasty 6y ago
"In moderation and with self-awareness" is the same argument typically used for the licitness of drugs, alcohol, nutritionally devoid food, and dozens of other externality-generating vices. Yes, they frequently replace deficits in
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by froasty 6y ago
Ted Kaczynski got the bulk of his ideas from Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society. Ellul was emphatically a pacifist, an anarchist, and a well-respected intellectual.
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by froasty 6y ago
If you're making useless things, you have a surrogate activity. We use the term “surrogate activity” to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goa
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by froasty 6y ago
Every time someone says "I have no choice but to go against the dictates of my conscience" it translates to "I have a choice to have my own will free of coercion, but I don't want to pay the entry fee of having integrity
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by froasty 6y ago
Oh, certainly. The United States (and every other country with a hawkish foreign policy) uses atrocity propaganda to justify their wars to their citizens. The difference between Nayirah, the Gulf of Tonkin, the RMS Lusitania, et. al and the
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by froasty 6y ago
Let's consider two academics. Academic A is constrained to traditional rational discourse and Academic B is constrained to post-modernism. Which of these two is going to publish more articles? The person that must meticulously build on
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by froasty 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_entrepreneur
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by froasty 6y ago
The quote isn't real. It's from a Cambridge dissertation in 1907 attributing these attitudes to the ancients. With that said, let's assume that Socrates did say something like this. What exactly happened to Athenian democra
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by froasty 6y ago
I understand that Apple is a brand first and foremost, so it's no surprise that they're going to release token PR efforts and publicize their tax shelter non-profits. I also understand that activists, if they actually knew of the
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by froasty 6y ago
>Richard Stallman, originator of the first free-and-open license, resigned from the Free Software Foundation last year over comments sympathetic to the late billionaire and molester Jeffrey Epstein. This is patently false character assas
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by froasty 7y ago
Really? It's 2019, there is no argument to be had over this. Impurity problems have occasionally come up over the years, but they have largely been addressed quickly by existing regulations. And at no point have they ever approached th
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by froasty 8y ago
And yet here you are, voluntarily, in a thread about Curtis Yarvin. What exactly does that make you?
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by froasty 8y ago
>Ah yes, a nation pouring an immense amount of resources into propaganda targeting a specific subsection of american society and having close contact with the currently elected administration definitely wasn't the reason they got el
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by froasty 8y ago
If you're okay operating in an organization that can't help but play a Molochian game of necessary evils, then you should consider it. Otherwise, you're probably going to get burned out by the constant braying of naive ideali
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by froasty 8y ago
The anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market. They're very bright to do that.
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by froasty 8y ago
How are those not synonymous in this day and age? The point of freedom of expression is not inhibiting the right to an audience or explicitly interferring in the marketplace of ideas in civil society. Saying that Facebook, Twitter, Paypal
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by froasty 8y ago
If you're not willing or able to see parallels between Judaism and Nazism or any other ethnically separatist ideology that are quasi-religious in nature, then there's no point in continuing any discussion because you've alrea
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by froasty 8y ago
I'd love to see your equivalent ancestor in the 1640s when Milton published the Areopagitica.^1 > Reading this polemic is liketh watching someone did beat the ocean with a stick. What wouldst behold liketh for an initiative contra-
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by froasty 8y ago
And once again, the quote in broader context: "How can one choose to reason falsely? It is because of a longing for impenetrability. The rational man groans as he gropes for the truth; he knows that his reasoning i
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by froasty 8y ago
> The problem with free speech on the Internet is that our human minds have not sufficiently evolved to even remotely begin to understand just how fundamentally the Internet changes our perception of our fellow humans. Dunbar's numb
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by froasty 8y ago
> Nazi also got comparably lower sentences then radical communists or left wing for same offenses. Right wing in Germany was treated with more lenience then left wing in Germany during that period. Hitler could be sent to jail for long,

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