Felagund
2d ago
The sequences on LessWrong are probably also probably fairly big.
(Do be aware, though, that Eliezer definitely isn't infallible.)
Felagund
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d ago
No, it's bad in the sense that it's evil to scam the people who trust you.
Felagund
2d ago
Also, look just how many likes that post got. Clearly a lot of his commenters got the message.
Felagund
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
5d ago
Wow, using foreign alphabets really crosses a line, you should ban that guy.
Felagund
7d ago
I'll restrict myself to people who can speak modern English.
How about Henry VIII, Abraham Lincoln, and Friedrich Hayek. (I was also considering Oliver Cromwell or James I/VI in place of Henry.)
Felagund
8d ago
Which two? Judas obviously, but are you saying that there's external evidence for Paul, or Jesus?
Anyway, it's pretty implausible to me that Jesus or Paul would just be made up.
Felagund
8d ago
Why would they not just be historical figures? Do you think they didn't exist?
Felagund
8d ago
Of course, when Jesus comes back, we've hit the end times, so you have to price that in.
Felagund
10d ago
I don't have a good sense of scale—how much would you expect running this site costs per month?
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),
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