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2d ago
Someone is productive if they increase the sum total longterm wellbeing of the citizen directly or indirectly. A homeless man who gives out compliments in exchange for alms is productive; a tech CEO who outsources to foreigners or designs an addicting endless scroll algorithm is only parasitic. The guy who made billions selling sugary yogurt under the pretense of it being healthful is parasitic; the retiree who allows his neighbor to eat an apple from his tree is productive. The unemployed musician who lives off welfare is more productive than the most effective worker at Nike or Labubu International or whatever, because his efforts are at least toward the common good.
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4d ago
Awesome write-up.
I watched some of Danya’s videos a long time ago and was struck by his verbal intelligence. His speech was filled with brilliancies; he would deploy a phrase from a 19th century chess book the way Magnus would deploy its tactics. He was fun to watch just for his way of talking. But I remember thinking at the time that his mind was wasted on chess.
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6d ago
Ahh you beat me to all the best insults in the Bible. Paul’s emasculation insult is genuinely hilarious
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6d ago
as a Christian
Christ also mocked his outgroup. He called them stupid, the children of vipers, blind, ravenous wolves, criminals. The funniest insult in the Bible is when Paul tells advocates of circumcision that they should go one step further and castrate themselves. If Christ wasn’t polite than neither should you be polite. What do you gain by politeness? Christian perfection is brotherly love, and brothers who love each other insult and fight each other. They just don’t take it too seriously.
And as an American you should especially love insulting people. The patriots would kidnap loyalists, pour hot tar on them, and then throw hundreds of feathers to them so they would look like a chicken. Hilarious.
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8d ago
Kirk was affiliated with a heavily Zionist Church. They have sermons where they teach that every Christian has to support Israel politically to be on favorable terms with God, that Israel has a divine right to the entirety of “Greater Israel” (large swaths of neighboring countries), and that America will go to war with Iran sometime soon to spark the End Times.
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8d ago
I have no understanding of that field so I’ll take your word for it. But if you look at open source contributions on GitHub as recently as 2021, which is far from theoretical computer science but is at least something technical and important, women make ~5% of contributions. This study looked at names, and there are many transgender programmers active on GitHub, and they seem to love Linux… so the number of real female contributors may be as low as 1-3%. This is a good metric because it’s technical work for the pure love of technical work.
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9d ago
The nannies are not breastfeeding in crucial early life years, or providing the skin contact and natural maternal affection that leads to healthy offspring. And because women are averse to pairing with men below their income unless the men compensate with unusual attractiveness, they have a lower rate of marriage than they would otherwise have. And because the school years are intense, they are delaying marriage. This dysgenic effect is more serious than the economic inefficiency effect, because you can’t easily produce more high iq citizens. In a pronatal culture, high iq women have more children than average, learning the skills of husband-acquiring and homemaking at an earlier age.
Putting women in law and medicine is also dumb for another reason, which is that you force the most intelligent women to have a lower TFR than they otherwise might have. And you force them into a dysgenic and unhealthy motherhood environment, because stress before and during pregnancy increases the risk of all sorts of impairments in children, and a stressful occupation prevents the kind of loving mother-child bond that is essential during the first three years of life. Your milk will be filled with stress hormones, and your mood will be too stressed for your child to feel safe in the world, and your child will forever have a slightly autistic unease because they did not sustain sufficient skin contact to modulate oxytocin, like the wire monkeys. We have screwed up an entire generation of intelligent adolescents this way, though the effects are almost impossible to study (who is willing to do this to a twin?). And I think a lot of modern ills (overuse of smart phones, parasocial relationships, etc) are consequences of an impoverished bond to the mother during early life.
Also, it seems to me that women just don’t think up interesting ideas at the same rate men do. As someone who ravenuously pursues interesting ideas and thoughts (as I imagine many themotte users do as well), about 99% of interesting ideas I read are produced by men. And if you look at the places where interesting ideas proliferate without the allure of a secondary reward (social attention), it’s overwhelmingly men, like on the anonymous humanities or political board of 4chan (which like it or not has had an enormous influence on today’s online culture). And the games which focus on creative problem solving, strategy or Minecraft style games, are overwhelmingly male, whereas the cosmetic and nurturing games are overwhelmingly female. This tells us something because what people do in their leisure is what they like to do without the watchful eye of society. So, women can do systems-oriented creative problem solving, but will they if they don’t have a structure involving secondary rewards of cogent social reinforcement (degrees and peer competition), by which they can feel superior to their pretty peers? I’m going to say usually not, most just don’t do that, but that’s an issue if we want people who intrinsically love problem-solving in every kind of role like that — such people require less mentoring, less extrinsic reward infrastructure, might come up with a novel insight out of the blue, etc
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11d ago
I thought it was just the latest absolutely retarded iOS update
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11d ago
The former marketing director of the American Jewish Congress leaked a bunch of private text messages to hurt a number of gentile Republicans, painting them as neonazis. What are these supposed “neonazis” doing? Are they using an extensive advocacy network to defend the starvation of children and the expansion of lebensraum for a chosen people? Well, no, that’s the folks over at the American Jewish Congress just this year.
It just seems like a joke. We are excommunicating people for juvenile humor, while ignoring the sophisticated agents who carry water for genuine Hitler-lite activity. How about we expel everyone associated with any organization that just this year excused or defended the conscious starvation of children, whether that be a religious organization or a secular organization? How about we no longer trust anyone with superseding ethnotribal allegiance in positions of American power? Isn’t that a better place to start?
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15d ago
Abiah Folger, Benjamin Franklin’s mother. She had ten children.
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16d ago
For a person with maximum love for others and maximum love for wisdom, these things being chief enjoyments superseding all others, is there ever a scenario in which the most moral decision conflicts with the most hedonic desire?
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17d ago
Rallying the lower class requires simplifying things. It is easier to rally people around CEO pay than the more complicated “if you unionize you can redirect more of Starbuck’s yearly profit to its 4 billion workers, giving each worker an extra $11,000 per year”. Starbuck’s should not have a high profit margin as it has maxxed its expansion in America and it is a predictable business that doesn’t need to “innovate”. Literally just sell the pumpkin spiced latte. It should have the profit margin of a grocery store.
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20d ago
Companionship dogs weren’t treated as working dogs in history. Greeks and Romans buried their dogs in elaborate tombs with poignant epitaphs. Neolithic humans buried dogs alongside human graves. There are statues in Europe commemorating dogs, the bronze weathered gold from the petting of passersby. The inordinate love of dogs may have negatively influenced the TFR of Rome, as Caesar / Plutarch criticize it in legend.
I don’t think it’s cynicism as a belief as much as a genetic type we’re talking about. Subclinical sociopathy is the most important thing our culture selects for after intelligence. The cynics in question are acting out their genes and not a philosophical belief they cultivated, because our schools and culture do not really teach cynicism, but teach that fairness and equality and goodness and philanthropy and so forth are objective values.
For every choice in youth which influences the chance of mainstream successful, the sociopath has the edge over the healthy-minded individual. Has a reading in English class triggered an intrinsic interest in the author and a desire to read more? You’ve clogged your mind and schedule with a distraction, while the sociopath continues to gun the next reading assignment. Did your grandma die and it had a big impact on you because you were close to her? Again you have worse odds. Are you, as a normal person, unwilling to a create brazenly false life event? The sociopath beats you on every college essay. Do you make a friendship with someone less fortunate, and in accordance with every moral belief system allocate energy and attention to their wellbeing? This might spell the difference between a B+ or an A. When you had to play Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no 2 for a music performance, does it take you on an emotional adventure that leaves you stunned the rest of the night? No Stendhal are you, you have a calculus test tomorrow. Do you have religious inclinations which require talking to the Divine or reading virtue-inducing works that don’t leave a measurable result? You’re screwed. Do you feel guilt at the state of the world and does it compel you to learn about it? Your sociopathic competitor has no such compunction.
The sociopath wants power and control and dominance and is insensitive to any emotional distraction or guilt or empathetic concern. A healthy youth ought to be distracted by things outside of school as a natural byproduct of their curiosity, inclinations, and sense of social purpose. There are people like Fields Medalist June Huh who are simply deselected out of the upper echelons of society despite being exactly what we want in our all of our key positions:
Huh applied to about a dozen doctoral programs in the U.S. But because of his undistinguished undergraduate experience, he was rejected by all of them save one. In 2009, he began his studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, before transferring to the University of Michigan in 2011 to complete his doctorate.
To hear him tell it, he doesn’t usually have much control over what he decides to focus on in those three hours. For a few months in the spring of 2019, all he did was read. He felt an urge to revisit books he’d first encountered when he was younger — including Meditations by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and several novels by the German author Hermann Hesse — so that’s what he did. “Which means I didn’t do any work,” Huh said. “So that’s kind of a problem.”
When he was 16 years old and in the middle of his first year in high school (which lasts for three years in South Korea), he decided to drop out to write poetry. He was something of a romantic. “I could literally physically cry after listening to good music,” he said. He wrote about nature and about his own experiences. He planned to complete his masterpiece in the two years before he’d have to attend university. “So that didn’t happen,” he laughed.
That poetic detour has since proved crucial to his mathematical breakthroughs. His artistry, according to his colleagues, is evident in the way he uncovers those just-right objects at the center of his work, and in the way he seeks a deeper significance in everything he does. “Mathematicians are a lot like artists in that really we’re looking for beauty,” said Federico Ardila-Mantilla, a mathematician at San Francisco State University and one of Huh’s collaborators. “But I think in his case, it’s really pronounced. And I just really like his taste. He makes beautiful things.”
Mathematicians were also impressed by his demeanor. His talks at conferences were always accessible and concrete; in speaking with him, it was clear that he was thinking both deeply and broadly about the concepts he was working with. “He was ridiculously mature for a graduate student,” said Matthew Baker, a mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After Baker met him for the first time, “I was just like, who is this guy?”
According to Mircea Mustaţă, Huh’s adviser at the University of Michigan, he required almost no supervision or guidance. Unlike most graduate students, he already had a program in mind, and ideas about how to pursue it. “He was more like a colleague,” Mustaţă said. “He already had his own way of looking at things.” Many of his collaborators note that he’s incredibly humble and down-to-earth. When he learned he’d won the Fields Medal, “it didn’t really feel that good,” Huh said. “Of course you are happy, but deep down, you’re a little bit worried that they might eventually figure out that you’re not actually that good. I am a reasonably good mathematician, but am I Fields Medal-worthy?”
Obviously there’s a spectrum between a June Huh and a Sam Bankman-Fried, and June Huh is like the comical ideal. But there are probably June Huns of other social/cultural roles that we just have no way of finding and selecting. I mean, in math and programming, you can trivially prove that you have the skills, but this is harder for anything involving political leadership and the humanities.
edit remembered that a good example of this is PirateSoftware. YouTube has endless analyses for anyone unfamiliar. But for those familiar: his lying and scheming made him the top streamer in the world for a while. He used his supreme reputation to attack the pro-consumer initiative Stop Killing Games. He benefitting personally from attacking this initiative because it ingratiated him with big business, and he has no empathetic tie to the common man / consumer. Our political class is awfully like PirateSoftware.
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23d ago
Pre-19th century art. For any scene, type scene + renaissance/medieval into google. Can use any terminology related to European art, but ignore everything Romantic and onward. Or even neoclassical and onward. With the exceptions of like William Blake and Gustave Dore it’s junk. For the passion, you can type in any phrase and find accompanying art. There’s probably at least 1000 individual pieces for every sentence of the passion
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464349
There’s a cool collection of art with descriptions by a Jewish educational fund, too: https://talivisualmidrash.org.il/en/home/
This is less entertaining than a movie, but each piece is greater than any individual frame of a movie. Religious movies just never capture reverence or awe well.
Someone should devise a website that combines the best art, music, poetry and commentaries onto one web page for every scene in the Bible. That would be awesome.
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24d ago
They are first conditioned not to notice ANY physical advantages of black people over whites
The progressive is trained to have a phobia reaction to intellectual or moral differences only. He is perfectly fine saying white people can’t dance or white people have no rhythm, but if you ask if this is genetic he will say no. And while it’s easy to train someone into believing that everyone has the same baseline genetic intelligence / morality, it’s next to impossible to persuade a human that athletic power doesn’t matter, because that’s a primal indicator of power that goes back millions of years to pre-human ancestors. And we live in a world that valorizes the athletic from the middle school level on. The big adolescence coming of age ritual for Americans revolves around sportsball homecoming. I’m not saying this on top of your theory, but just from an evpsych understanding: men are biased to respect men who are physically stronger and better at performing an athletic activity. Especially if they represent your school tribe. This is one of the reasons that we have an ingrained bias toward height. Culture can find ways to reduce this inclination, but in the West we don’t have that kind of culture, as even our Christians worship sports (they used to be banned). In China, where grades are so much more important and where academic success is honored in society-wide festivals, like doing well on the Gaonkao exam (definitely misspelling but won’t be googling), this bias is probably reduced.
this only strengthens their conviction that the poor blacks are ONLY victims in ANY circumstance because they do worse in every single category of soft status that they (the progressives) value- test scores, iq tests, academic achievement, wage payments, career advancement, you name it
The average progressive isn’t doing a 200iq/eq Magnus Carlson-think on the chess board of sociopolitics. They have been taught that everyone is genetically the same, and have been taught that Blacks are oppressed, and this works to induce the closely-guarded assumption that Blacks cannot be blamed for their intellectual or moral failings. A random teenager from the whitest town of Maine will think this just as much as a hyper-educated Ivy graduate who lives in gentrified Harlem. They are doing the same amount of thinking / unthinking.
If you believe in blank slate you believe that whites are exactly the same as blacks
Progressives retain a belief in free will. Everyone starts with the same genetic resources, but some people are good and some are bad. White people only have themselves to blame for their failure to do well in sports and rap. Especially when they have all the riches that they willingly and evilly stole from the rest of the world. This is approximately their belief.
I think white progressives only hold their beliefs out of a deep sense of arrogance and certainty in their own superiority
There are some studies showing that white progressives have a negative in-group preference, whereas white conservatives and blacks do not. They genuinely don’t like themselves and instead like minorities.
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24d ago
I don’t find your schema of status too useful, but an adjacent point here is that the blank slate progressive is influenced to believe in the superiority of African Americans. If everyone is totally equal in terms of cognition and moral nature, but one group is more athletic, then that group is superior, and you will intuit and internalize this even if you nominally claim that no group is better than another, because athleticism is a very primal value that humans consider in other humans. So, that variety of white progressive who loves hip hop and considers Blacks oppressed is all but forced to consider his own group inherently inferior: Blacks are the unjustly harmed member of the perceived community (thus demanding extra empathetic concern and love and resources, even primates do this), harmed by someone like himself (thus demanding shame and punishment and ostracization on himself), all while being more musically and athletically dominant. This is a very poisonous worldview. I’ve never bought into the idea that “white progressives are so racist that they actually dehumanize Blacks and that’s why they treat them with lower standards”. I think it’s the exact opposite. An internalized ideology of genetic blank-slatism will always lead to an intuitively-held belief in the inferiority of Whites, who are historically evil (thus likely predisposed to evil according to progressive anachronistic history), can’t rap, and can’t play sportsball. This worldview can only be corrected with the science of genetics and the belief in the superiority of civilization. And perhaps better taste in music.
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27d ago
This seems likely. Hegseth is the guy who had to edit his Deus Vult sleeve tattoo with the subtitle kafir, in Arabic. Blacks having to shave isn’t a deal breaker which prevents their enrollment, but shaving will prevent Muslims from joining the military.
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28d ago
The urbanite’s favorite social leisure activity is trying a new restaurant. They make plans in advance around it, it’s where they sustain their friendships, it’s where they experience novelty without drugs, it’s a whole big thing. There aren’t that many novel spaces that you can relax in which aren’t a restaurant in a city.
Humans also just naturally become addicted to new food and clothes, because they experience these every day. You see corrections against this in the Bible for this reason: “is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”, and “for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit”. But where will an irreligious progressive hear a correction against becoming addicted to novel food, unless they’re into stoicism and mindfulness?
There are a lot of reasons why Muslims have a lower chance of assimilation: the religion allows for shame and correction and ostracization; they emphasize ritual purity, and every religion that does this has a stricter in/out group preference, eg gypsies and Haredim, because it conditions the mind to see others as unclean; they are inherently Arab and Arabized, because the whole religion is in Arabic and all prayers and all major commentaries, and the translations are not considered inspired, and all the centers of theology are in Arab countries, so there’s a constant pressure toward exclusion; Muslim countries want to sustain a strong Islamic in-group preference for biological and political reasons, which will always be stronger than Catholicism’s reasons of piety, and they are definitely finding ways to transfer large sums specifically for this reason; the story underlying Muhammad and the Quran is one of fierce exclusion and struggle, as opposed to the Christian story where the early Christians mingle freely; Islam has an entire corpus dedicated to how you present yourself publicly, so once your town or city becomes majority Muslim there’s now peer pressure for how you dress etc; Catholicism is frankly just a weekend lecture and nothing more for the vast majority of Catholics; Catholics were assimilating into a dominant culture that is, compared against Islam, 99.99% similar in all the important beliefs; the most extreme Catholics become priests and have a TFR of 0, while the most extreme Muslims become Imams and have a TFR of 3+
These are very basic things that a commentator should know. “Muslims will assimilate because Catholics did” is a really terrible take because it just ignores all the unique factors in both religions.
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29d ago
Saw it go viral on Twitter. Does kind of read like a bot post but it’s just a cute 3d world game you can play in browser without signing up
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29d ago
Cute 3d world browser game: https://messenger.abeto.co/
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29d ago
He is the GOP’s attempt to replace Charlie Kirk. He has zero reputation among online conservatives but was somehow ingratiated into the GOP establishment, so they are rolling him out everyone.
IMO there is so much implicit bias favoring a young brown socialist Muslim candidate against an old white candidate, that if there were definite proof Mamdami is a genuine radical Islamist, he would still win the election. The only thing I can imagine reducing his chances if it came out that he’s really an Italian putting on makeup pretending to be a brown Muslim. I just get the sense that the implicit bias runs this deep.
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