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6d ago
Something like that:
In 1969, the couple moved to Louisville, Tennessee, and purchased a dairy barn,[28] which McCarthy renovated, doing the stonework himself.[27] According to DeLisle, the couple lived in "total poverty", bathing in a lake. DeLisle claimed, "Someone would call up and offer him $2,000 to come speak at a university about his books. And he would tell them that everything he had to say was there on the page. So we would eat beans for another week."[12] While living in the barn, he wrote his next book, Child of God (1973).[29] Like Outer Dark before it, Child of God was set in southern Appalachia. In 1976, McCarthy separated from Anne DeLisle and moved to El Paso, Texas.[30]
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9d ago
This should be expanded upon for a top-level post.
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17d ago
You're fine.
Back in 2023 Jonathan Katz wrote in The Atlantic about Substack's supposed "Nazi Problem". Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack, responded.
I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away—in fact, it makes it worse.
We believe that supporting individual rights and civil liberties while subjecting ideas to open discourse is the best way to strip bad ideas of their power. We are committed to upholding and protecting freedom of expression, even when it hurts.
Even defending having Hanania, fresh off the Hoste reveal, on his podcast.
While it has been uncomfortable and I probably would have done things differently with all the information in front of me, I ultimately don’t regret having him on the podcast.
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20d ago
Related is emotive conjugation or commonly "Russel Conjugation" (popularised by a piece in Edge by Eric Weinstein).
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26d ago
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28d ago
He figured out that people will give you all their personal info for free and that this is worth a lot to advertisers. In his words, "they trust me, dumb fucks".
(A direct message from 19-year-old Zuckerberg to a friend, when thefacebook had 4000 users.)
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1mo ago
Congratulations!
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1mo ago
This is like a top 0.1-1% neighbourhood: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BFNzii2e6BT5Vvir5 The houses themselves are so far set back from the street that you can't even see them, but on average they look something like this.
There's still garbage on the street, https://maps.app.goo.gl/kaDQdMq7PXkkycNP9.
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1mo ago
There are a few charities like that, e.g. GiveDirectly.
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1mo ago
Yes, by "college education" I meant the instruction. Though I should have also mentioned that Caplan's case is mostly about societal waste, and there can still be substantial gains to the individual.
Math didn't go so well. This is fine, since I don't necessarily want to be a Woman in STEM, but also very common among homeschoolers I know, even with engineer fathers. I think math just inherently requires more structure and pushing for a lot of teens than reading and writing do.
From the homeschoolers I've spoken with this seems quite common. Great outcomes in many different domains, but a real lack of mathematical maturity.
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1mo ago
It seems very clear that college education effects outcomes such as higher earnings.
This is not so clear. The earning difference between college graduates and non-graduates is clear, but whether it's the college education that's primarily responsible for that difference is questionable.
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1mo ago
The increase in autism is largely the result of diagnostic drift and increased awareness.
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1mo ago
the average modern western middle class woman spends much more time 1 on 1 with her young children than her predecessors a century or two ago.
From the survey data I've seen comparing the 1960s to today parents' time with their kids has increased, most notably and substantially for fathers, but also somewhat for mothers. (Though, we've only had the American Time Use Survey since 2003, and I don't know how much to trust the previous survey methods.)
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5mo ago
Also David Chapman's Vividness website-book-blog-thing at https://vividness.live/ , he's been on my radar for a long time and I've never followed through.
You may also enjoy his writing on metarationality.
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6mo ago
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6mo ago
Acquired on all charges in June.
Acquitted?
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6mo ago
Great stuff! I need to get back into the shop.
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6mo ago
Congratulations!
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7mo ago
(Also early follower of you on the other platform, and it's been great to see your recent growth.)
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7mo ago
Yes, very much so. While I'm mostly a lurker, The Motte is unique place that is unmatched by anywhere else on the Internet. I am grateful that it exists.
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7mo ago
If the only thing you value in yourself is being useful then you'll develop a knack for finding people who will exploit this mercilessly, and this roommate is merely somewhere between grandfathered in from the past and the worst case of all of them. It has to end, and I am not obligated to let this guy stay at my place until he dies because of whatever went wrong in his life that isn't my fault.
Read your previous posts, you're making the right decision. Good luck.
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10mo ago
How is it happening now? Language models do not look like artificial life.
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10mo ago
Congrats!
Sweet story.
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