Felagund
11hr ago
I find it pretty funny that it's you, but also, thank you, that was helpful.
Felagund
11hr ago
I ran across a substack at some point—vectorsofmind.com—whose old posts were saying that the big five had some bad methodology, and that we can do better, and get some different factors, but I don't know enough to assess what it was saying. (Looking now at the titles, the more recent posts seem significantly sketchier.) Anyway, I'd be interested in knowing what you think of the old articles.
Felagund
12hr ago
with (extreme) effort
I think one of the harder parts would be getting the search engines to buy in to making some other site the default. That would be a lot of the battle—if google switches, people are definitely going to start editing the new one.
Felagund
12hr ago
Hopefully, they do well enough that we can elect Vance or another Republican.
It'll have to end eventually, but maybe the overton window will have shifted by then.
Felagund
12hr ago
It's not at all clear to me how your 2 and 4 fit together. Do you prefer the President to run the federal bureaucracy, or not?
Anyway, there's also the affirmative action order, which is big—among other things, repealing the affirmative action requirements formerly in place for the government and for federal contractors, which were a huge share of the economy.
Felagund
2d ago
This isn't what you asked, but some of my favorite poems are:
Ulysses, The Present Crisis, Lepanto, The White Man's Burden, Recessional, various hymns (to be clear, this is not an endorsement of every sentiment found therein),
Felagund
2d ago
The sequences on LessWrong are probably also probably fairly big.
(Do be aware, though, that Eliezer definitely isn't infallible.)
Felagund
3d ago
Crypto as a currency? Cool. (But most are impractically slow and expensive for that).
Crypto as a tool? Cool. (Whatever Polymarket does)
Crypto as gambling/speculation? Very much a bad thing.
Of course, the whole space will fall apart when quantum computing is achieved, and the cryptograpy is broken. Who knows how long that will be, though.
Felagund
3d ago
Now I'm curious: do you think Trump MTG cards would be net-good or net-bad for Hasbro? A lot of MTG players would be quite angry, but it would also definitely attract new people.
Felagund
3d ago
Well, it was clearly correct to not be going after sitting presidents, at the very least, and he could pardon himself, so Trump v United States isn't all that relevant to this analysis.
Felagund
3d ago
No, it's bad in the sense that it's evil to scam the people who trust you.
Felagund
3d ago
Also, look just how many likes that post got. Clearly a lot of his commenters got the message.
Felagund
3d ago
I definitely think he was a factor in me being convinced of HBD. Posing as a within-the-overton-window thinker while talking about views that might direct one to find what's actually true more plausible worked in my case, and surely there were a bunch of others for whom that was true as well.
Felagund
3d ago
I think that first one definitely had an influence on me seeing population IQ differences as a reasonable sort of thing to believe in, before I'd even considered wider implications.
Felagund
3d ago
Almost all views on con law- especially blue coded ones- are keyfabe eventually.
Right. The progressive-aligned school of constitutional interpretation is living constitutionalism—essentially, if we like it, and we can get away with it, that's what the text means. The conservative-aligned school of constitutional interpretation is originalism, where they attempt to find a justification from the original text, when it's convenient, and find a workaround otherwise, unless you've really got a spine. Originalism is better than living constitutionalism, because they won't drift as far.
Felagund
6d ago
Wow, using foreign alphabets really crosses a line, you should ban that guy.
Wow, I had not thought about how much of a security risk that was, I was just impressed by the self-driving capabilities.
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