Mike Chevalier

@RupertLowe10 B Oui

Restore Britain is trying to put some normal people into Parliament. Rebecca will be a real fighter for Makerfield.

@KeithWoodsYT @RokoMijic @nativistconcern It's a false dichotomy. Assuming all welfare states are equal and all small states are equal. Nevertheless it's pretty hard to argue for the current scale of welfare even if it were better done.

@RokoMijic @nativistconcern You can just keep them out though. Denmark has become far more restrictive on immigration than Britain and has one of the most comprehensive welfare states in the world.

Seems to be a disconnect with Restore Britain members like this lambasting "market-worshipping conservatives" while Rupert Lowe is talking about running Britain's economy on the principles of Austrian economics and using Milei's Argentina as a model. The good news is people like this do seem to dominate the party, but I don't see how they will ever outflank Farage for the anti-establishment vote if their economic platform is Thatcherism on steroids.

@UnityNewsNet Ok, but what is even the purpose of doing/saying anything political then? Are you just fighting boredom?

Sadly not. Anyone telling you they have a solution is selling snake oil.

@CatoThistlewood @RokoMijic There's a website where you can make the declaration. It should be on the threatening letters ...

@RokoMijic Call them. Make them note down that you've removed implied rights of access. That you don't watch TV. Remind them that the conversation is recorded and they now need a signed warrant to step on your property and knock on the door. I did this. They left me alone.

I'm starting to get threatening letters from TV licensing I haven't ever had a TV, though I did just acquire a second hand one to use as a computer monitor

@RokoMijic @still_critical Is CFS measurable?

@still_critical it's unscientific because it doesn't have specific, falsifiable predictions or mechanistic explanations.

It's difficult to cure CFS because many (perhaps most) cases are caused by a vicious cycle of stress, and long-term stress is difficult to fix. One particular issue with CFS is that the more the sufferer believes it was (ultimately) caused by the body, the worse it will get.

@collapsologist @RokoMijic It's a lazy and mostly incorrect (but prevalent) shorthand. To the extent that we can model the world we use our general intelligence, but there's no compulsion to do so (outside of 'autism'), so people don't always do it even when they can.

@KnightTakes @RokoMijic I only have 280 characters

One of the big insights I think I have and that most people continually miss is that most people ask what the best thing is - the MOST MORAL ACTION - the BEST PAID job - the BEST way to attract women - the BEST strategy or deck in a game - The ONE TRUE MEANING of life - The WISEST political stance - The TRUE solution to the WQ/JEETQ/HOMOQ etc - The BEST thing to invest in But really, all of these things are subject to metagaming. When everyone is constantly being woke, woke loses its alpha. When everyone is playing a red aggro deck, red is no longer optimal. I think it's easier for nerds to accept this in the context of a game. But real life is just a really big high fidelity game. Morality, politics, dating, investing etc are all subject to metagaming. They're all ecologies. Human ecology is *ridiculously* understudied.

@collapsologist @RokoMijic This is a very loose 'rationalist' way to talk about cognition. In evolutionary terms it is not minimising energy per se, but was never exposed to such dynamic modern environments in the first place.

@KnightTakes @RokoMijic The brain must do more processing to work with dynamic models -> this costs more energy -> the brain tends to minimize energy use -> people tend to use static models I guess you mean religions, yeah they worked but couldn't adapt to modernity

@collapsologist @RokoMijic Energetically? Simpler, more sustainable ideologies have existed in the past that provided an essentially static world. Unfortunately the underlying requisite 'irrational beliefs' went the way of Chesterton's fence .

@KnightTakes @RokoMijic Dynamic models are cognitively (energetically) expensive and difficult to communicate, so only static models work at scale, especially given IQ distributions being how they are

@collapsologist @RokoMijic What is worse is the consequence of this world view whereby they treat the world/society as immutable, so their 'optimal' solutions have no associated costs. Possibly with selected carve outs for e.g. the environment.

@RokoMijic People are prone to what i'd call 'static thinking', as if the world is static and things have one permanent optimal solution, while in reality optimal solutions change when circumstances change

@MavenPolitic Not the same thing, but there should be more discussion on 'no brainer' policy proposals. I'd say 7 is the only one that is not contentious. Replacing/eliminating stamp duty is another.

Why are younger people completely uninterested in your politics? Its because you're not offering them anything. Here are TEN policy ideas that would help any party win support of people under the age of 40. 🧵

@ripplebrain S.

NBC confirms for the first time what many of us already suspected or knew: the Iranian Air Force bombed US bases in the opening phase of the war.

@Linahuaa Also distribution is narrower.

Number of 150+ IQ people in China is more than 4 times the USA because Chinese average iq is 107 vs 98. It's closer to 30 times more. And the ratio of 150+ IQ people getting whipped into studying hard and going into STEM is also significantly higher.

@Linahuaa @ligma__sigma As if there wasn't an immigration selection effect ...

@ligma__sigma China isn't even on this chart. And US Asians (carried by Chinese Americans and dragged down by some other Asians) outperform US Whites. And Chinese Americans are genetically the same as Mainland Chinese

@valigo Dystopic. Might as well tell people to exit the light cone.

Your only hope in the age of slop is publicity. Rabid corporate AI will mistakenly terminate your work, or your entire account, or lay you off, and the only way to fix it is to be big enough to cause public outcry. Nothing else works. Stay connected, backup everything important.

@RokoMijic Also it defaults to agreeing with challenges, and might have done so if they were incorrect.

Claude, Grok and ChatGPT are all very capable at uncreative/standard stuff but they all lack a sort of "sensible" intelligence when they go outside the training data. I'm not talking about Einstein level insights. I'm talking about things that are just very obvious within the context you are discussing. I had this problem with Claude opus 4.6 with extra thinking today discussing the colonization of Mercury 1. It didn't realize that solar collectors on Mercury won't work at night 2. I reminded it of that. "Okay!" It budgets for 24 hours of battery storage power. 3. I reminded it that Mercury's day is not 24 hours. "Ah! Okay". Need 88 Earth days. Says it's impossible. 4. I suggest using satellites to reflect sunlight onto the night side. "Ah! Okay you're absolutely right". Suggests satellites with a 200km orbit, since there's no atmosphere. 5. I remind it that from 200km you cannot reflect sunlight onto the dark side because the planet itself is in the way. "Ah okay, you're absolutely right". Suggests satellites at 50,000km. 6. I remind it that reflected light will be very diffuse as it spreads out, most is wasted. It suggests using a curved mirror to focus the light 7. I remind it that a curved mirror cannot focus light into a beam smaller in angular size than the Sun itself, because of conservation of etendue. "Ah yes! ... you're absolutely right". We agree that maybe 500km is about right. 8. It then calculates the area of the dark side that can be illuminated from a 500km satellite... but it only does it from a satellite exactly on the equitorial plane and only from one direction (only the dusk side). 9. I remind it that this is too conservative and to consider all angles. "Ah yes..." It then does the calculation correctly. So in some sense it DID know the answer!! But it says there's a small remaining region of darkness about 10° of lat and long that cannot be reached. I agree. It suggests that that area will be dark for 88 days so it can't work because batteries don't last that long. 10. I remind it that, because the planet is spinning relative to the Sun, that spot will *not* be stationary. It will be a moving zone that only lasts a few days. "Ah yes of course..."

@RokoMijic The difference between people who believe LLM AI is super intelligent and those who realise it isn't is having original thoughts/trains of investigation.

@Linahuaa 120iq gaokao supremacy.

China in 2015 was a nobody. It had fancy skyscrapers and a giant GDP growth number from spamming infrastructure. But it wasn't leading in anything, so it didn't feel like a threat. Now, in 2025, China has cutting edge video games, cars, robots, A.I., apps, missiles.. Tiktok's algorithm is literally unbeatable, so the US had no choice but to raid it, in order to protect their domestic tech giants. They had no choice but to de facto ban China cars to protect their car industry. China DOES feel threatening now, but Westerners are still coping by referring to "middle-income trap", and "population decline" But don't let the reduced GDP growth fool you: Yes, they don't inflate numbers with low-value spam anymore- but QUALITATIVELY, China's growth is still relatively in its early stage. The dragon has actually still been half-asleep thus far. In 2035, China will be a whole other beast.

@ben_304 Good plot and characters please.

Of course being creative is self-indulgent. The feeling of satisfaction when the elements come together is the only pleasure worth getting up for. I can easily drink coffee and listen to songs about death in bed.

There’s a beautiful, strange allure to the colour purple. It feels occult to me, otherworldly. Gilt features the colour in many small ways.

@RokoMijic @SpencrGreenberg More wrong.

@SpencrGreenberg Spencer allow me to introduce you to my "taboos I'm okay with breaking" closet

A question for you: what's a taboo you're okay with people breaking?

@Linahuaa Yet you said it was easier to be happier now than in the past.

Just watched a video about life in rural Germany and noticed how much happier the people look, and how they don't even want to move to the big cities Everyone knows each other. You see the same people in bars over and over again. The local pub owner is making homey food and delivering it door to door to elderly widowers before peak business time. All contributions to the community are visible. People feel connected and seen. They have a purpose. Unfortunately though, this way of life is about to go extinct.