YoungAchamian
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YoungAchamian
6d ago
I would also like a breakdown. I followed him back in covid before I started to divest myself from the whole youtube ecosystem.
YoungAchamian
6d ago
I like this theory the most. It definitely maps to my observations of people exploiting niches to get what they need sexually.
YoungAchamian
6d ago
Tiberius Gracchus was the one they killed/tried to prosecute, for disturbing their hold on the levers of powers. I think he most maps to Trump.
YoungAchamian
14d ago
It's extremely reductive, but it's basically Rousseau? Has he been cast out of the Liberal canon?
My understanding is that he was never in Liberal canon. He had a huge distrust of private property, individual choice, and markets. All things that are actual cornerstones of Liberalism.
YoungAchamian
24d ago
I'm interested in whether, as a self-defined progressive, you feel that progressiveness as whole is define by holding the virtue, whose shadows are kindness, charity, generousness etc.?
I don't want to force you into a no-true-scotsman situation or an inevitable dogpile so I apologize in advance if that happens. Anyways, quite a few progressives I know in my circle of friends and family definitely express their virtues as kindness and/or empathy. But the longer one talks to them the more it really appears their kindness or empathy is very narrowly directed. They clearly have outgroups they are not kind or empathetic to. They don't consider the second order effects of their "kind" policies and who it hurts or sometimes even care that it does hurt people. I'm not saying this is you or even your bunch but have you encountered this, how do you differentiate yourself?
Irish mythology doesn't really have a Zeus figure as there are a handful of tribes of gods who are not unified like the greek, roman, or norse pantheons. But the more civilizationally-aligned Irish Gods are the Tuatha De Dannan. The Dagda is the Chief of the TDD. He's sort of a cross between Odin and Freyr.
YoungAchamian
24d ago
Google says its Mad Max, one of Immortan Joe's Wives. I doubt that's true. While probably not what you were going for, I always interpreted it as The Dagda.
YoungAchamian
30d ago
Is there a good source to see what executive order's trump has signed and a general summary of them?
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
The community notes on his posts are hilarious. The take I saw recently is the Elon wants to be "King of the Nerd", and with his eggshell-thin ego he really can't take being called out by people nerdier or smarter than him.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Do you have a good book recommendation on understanding Jungian Archetypes?
YoungAchamian
2mo ago
It's forgettable, I've put maybe 50 hours into it. The game loops are pretty simple. Definitely not better than Civ/CK/Victoria et al.
YoungAchamian
2mo ago
I read it in the same blog you just linked, The US Supreme Court seperated the cases and remanded the UNC portion of the case back to the lower courts.
If you click the "Judgment" link in that article it takes you to this document.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
Correct but you sent this link in the post before: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/062722zor_b97d.pdf
When you click judgement, you get: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
The URLs are literally different.
Furthermore, if you scroll down in the judgement, you get:
While you might not believe the NYT there are 3 other articles there. They all agree with the facts that UNC was decided against.
Semantics or not, the truth remains
I am now 100% sure you are trolling in bad faith, since you have considered no other evidence and just ignore anything that proves you wrong.
YoungAchamian
2mo ago
Interesting, well here's an a bunch of posts that seems to say the decision was as I said it was. I don't particularly care if they separated it or not, feels like semantics. The reality is that UNC attempted to discriminate against Asians and White people on the basis of race and was found to have done so in violation of the 14th amendment. Aka being woke.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-707 https://abc11.com/unc-admissions-supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-scotus/13440517/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/supreme-court-admissions-affirmative-action-harvard-unc.html https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-programs-in-college-admissions/
I read it in the same blog you just linked, The US Supreme Court separated the cases and remanded the UNC portion of the case back to the lower courts.
Also this link does not contain the actual case you said it does. I'm pretty sure you are trolling at this point.
YoungAchamian
2mo ago
I'm not sure what you read but the court ruled against UNC. They found they were discriminating against people in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
There's not many SE-Asians in NC but there are a ton in the Triangle: Chapel Hill (Location of UNC)-Raleigh-Durham. I live here and the area is a medium sized tech hub with the associated demographics that one would expect in a tech hub.
I'm not sure why you think UNC was conservative to begin with except that it's a flagship school in the south. Yes, it has a ton of Preppy Southerners but having met them, most are pretty much Neo-libs, and at least superficially onboard with wokeness.
YoungAchamian
2mo ago
UNC is pretty woke, they were one of the colleges that got sue for DEI-flavored affirmative action along with Harvard.
YoungAchamian
2mo ago
Thank you and both FCfromSSC and Maiq. This gives me some reading and thinking to do over the weekend.
YoungAchamian
2mo ago
that Liberalism though a fruitful doctrine, is founded on clear lies, and his series of posts on those myths is enlightening to who wants to construct a new kind of freedom ideology that doesn't have the flaws of Liberalism but doesn't have to fall to, say, Fascism.
As someone who considers themselves an open-minded classical liberal can you actually express what these foundational lies actually are? This is the first time I've ever heard of any of this and I'm quite curious.
Why does all of this sound like weird terminally online drama between Z-list internet celebs?
YoungAchamian
3mo ago
I was introduced to the term "titalitarian"
Fun, and barely relevant anecdote, I was born very premature, like so premature that it was unlikely I was going to survive. I'm told I also cried nonstop for milk but never could latch on. The La Leche consultant (Activist) was absolutely nasty to my mother about allowing me to be bottle fed. It didn't matter if I died to her as long as I was breast-fed. Sufficed to say she reduced my mother to tears and a breakdown and my father almost got arrested throwing the activist out. I can totally imagine these people as the sort of crusaders that then get infected with woke-beliefs, but this is very much leopard-eating-my-face for them.
YoungAchamian
6mo ago
I never said otherwise, I don't agree with the above guy about it "summoning". Its more that it might not really be historically accurate. I've also heard whispers that the vaunted Valknut doesn't really mean "fallen in battle" that interpretation was popularized by neo-pagans and passed off as historically meaningful in much the same way lots of druid/wiccan stuff is.
The honestly more interesting thing is how these symbols always seem to make it to the stage where they get tattooed onto military-esque people as sort of a mysticism/act of belonging/deeper symbolism. Must be a symptom of people's craving for deeper meaning.
YoungAchamian
6mo ago
The Aegishjalmur, sort of a neo-pagan symbol based on archeological evidence of similar symbols in pre-Christian Scandinavia.
YoungAchamian
7mo ago
My variation of this is that it was essentially suicide by USSS. Reports say the kid was bullied and ostracized. Sounds like a school shooter MO. Except he went after a politician/future president because while most suicidal shooters want swing a sledge hammer at the society that outcast them, this one got the opportunity.
YoungAchamian
7mo ago
I scanned through his history but couldn't find it. The native web-app system isn't very conducive. but here's a link to the arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10866
YoungAchamian
7mo ago
I'm not being sarcastic, you made a post here about the Hyena Hierarchy, oh 6 months ago. That was completely out of left field but an informative read, I enjoy reading your posts. LLM stuff is less of my specific interest, but I like to keep up to date on it. Particularly without all the doom/gloom/AI-Armageddon chatter. Thank you for putting together the effort to write about it.
YoungAchamian
7mo ago
I enjoyed this thank you. As an ML/AI engineer who isn't on twitter it's wild to me how much of the shifting currents of research I miss. I appreciate the paper links, so that I can read and update my knowledge accordingly. What is your secret to keeping up to date on all of this?
Be careful, I think the overlap between people who read MBotF and Motteposters/Rationalists is pretty high. I greatly enjoyed the series, definitely in my top 5. Definitely not some sexless dork. MBotF itself isn't particularly progressive, though the most recent Witness books had some cringe immigrant/refugee moments. I think this is far more explainable by influencers being highly fake; people who seek out fame are not normal. Clout chasers like the above are seeking to exploit their niche and in this case their only skill is being able to read/enjoy dense literature.
I think this maps cleany to the progressive impulse to want to be special, the pronouns, the celebration of different lived experiences. It all tracks that some nerd desiring to me special/famous, uses their love of deep fantasy to be different and then, because they are immersed in the the zoomer zeitgeist, then tries to become some niche influencer.
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