@captgouda24 Compare: for some people (men), accurately describing Marilyn Monroe is inflammatory.
English
James Hudson
15.5K posts
James Hudson
@Philonous
Retired philosopher with utilitarian/libertarian/market-monetarist tendencies, amateur sports fan and bridge player; grandfather
Wisconsin, USA Beigetreten Haziran 2009
184 Folgt384 Follower
The difficulty with inflammatory rhetoric and polarization is that accurately describing the Republican Party is inflammatory.
English
@robinhanson Much weirdness is covert. Some of the people I know may be weirder than you, but they are concealing it. Your weirdness is overt.
English
Median estimate: 0.76% of people respondents know are weirder than me.
Robin Hanson@robinhanson
What % of people you know are weirder than me, Robin Hanson?
English
@HeraldOfRome @iosif_lazaridis As if Russia was always called “The Kievan Empire,” even after the Ukrainian nation was formed, with Kiev as its capital.
English
@Philonous @iosif_lazaridis Rome was a country, a nation. The old city of Rome was just the capital of that country and then it just switched capitals.
It's no different than if America lost its capital or the original eastern colonies.
English
Roman rolls off the tongue even better and also happens to be more accurate than either of the alternatives.
We still call "France", "France", even though it has gone through several capitals and political systems.
So, we should call the Roman state by its plain English name.
Derek | The Hellenistic Age Podcast@HellenisticPod
I think that "Eastern Roman Empire" and "Byzantine Empire" are both totally appropriate naming conventions for the state established in Constantinople from 330-1453 A.D. It is both a direct continuation and something different, plus "Byzantine" rolls off the tongue better.
English
@kfishbain All seven are favorites to make the final roster. (Well, maybe van den Berg is 50-50.)
English
@HistoryBoomer @CathyYoung63 They don’t know; they *hope*. (They have a theory, which they hope is correct, that predicts the imminent demise of capitalism.)
English
Why do Marxists call this "late-stage capitalism"?
How do they know? This is the first time we've had capitalism. How can we know its life cycle?
Maybe capitalism will go on for a thousand years! Maybe this is middle or even early-stage capitalism!
Don't rush capitalism!
English
@RichardHanania Thank you for pointing out what many of us would have missed!
English
We might have just had the first black assassination attempt on a president in American history.
Racial barriers are crumbling all around us and we don’t even notice anymore.
English
@the_culturist_ Nowadays there is a lot more that is worth reading than there was in past ages. The opportunity cost of reading the classics has grown enormously.
English
You can graduate university now in the West without reading ANY book in its entirety whatsoever, let alone the great works.
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc
It is now the norm to go from kindergarten to PhD without reading a single word of Homer, Plato, Augustine, or Dante. This is how you erase a culture, and it's working. That's why we started an independent group dedicated to the study and preservation of the Western canon of literature — the books that built our civilization. To preserve a culture, you must continually study the books and ideas that created it. If the schools and universities won't teach the great texts of Western Civilization, we will do it ourselves. If this sounds like something you'd like to be part of, please join. We read a new classic together every month, and meet biweekly to discuss. To support our efforts, please consider a paid subscription. It makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this. We are funded ENTIRELY by the members of this community who wish to keep our efforts going. Paid members get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Essays to guide you through the books we're reading - The full archive of discussions and essays - Access to the community chat room - Ability to vote on what we read next Join us!
English
@BearsOlamide @BearsNationCHI So we *can* get one in the 4th-7th round. But *will* we?
English
@BearsNationCHI “There might not be anyone left” yet there’s 100 prospects of d tackles and edges
English
There might not be anyone left
DL purgatory incoming
Jordan Schultz@Schultz_Report
No. 45 pick is in: #Ravens have selected Mizzou DE Zion Young, per sources.
English
@CHGO_Bears @GBraggsJr23 He got an incredible start—he was almost a step ahead from the get-go.
English
Dear billionaires, what is preventing you from commissioning buildings like this??
English
@tjpain2 @bryan_caplan Corporations, mostly publicly traded and widely owned.
English
@Philonous @bryan_caplan You reckon common citizens would be buying most of it then?
English
Look at how much revenue the U.S. federal government used to raise from selling federal land - and how much federal land remains unsold.
Mass privatization is the most realistic way to pay down the national debt and avoid a Greek-style financial crisis.
English
@robinhanson My (consequentialist) essay: “It would be tedious to list my moment-to-moment objectives, and I will skip over the various intermediate levels, going right to the overarching objective: to make the world as good as I can make it.”
English
Why don’t we write periodic essays on what we are trying to achieve in life, and then at our funerals folks could discuss how well we achieved our stated goals? Usually funerals praise the dead on various metrics, but it isn't clear those were metrics the person was going for.
English
@robinhanson My essays would not necessarily reveal what I was really going for: I might be deceiving the world—even deceiving myself. My eulogist might say: “His degree of success in achieving his stated goals was ca. 40%, but I think he achieved what he was really after at ca. 55%.”
English
@bryan_caplan Much better to sell off public land to the oligarchs than actually address the spending problem, good call
English
@VivekGRamaswamy America has—if not quite a melting pot—at least the closest thing to a melting pot there has ever been on such a latge scale.
English
You can travel to Italy, but you’ll never be an Italian.
You can travel to France but you’ll never be a Frenchman.
You can live in Germany but you’ll never be a German.
You can pack your bags and live the rest of your life in China or Japan, but you’ll never be Chinese or Japanese.
Yet you can come from any one of those countries to the United States of America, and you can still be an American – so long as you work hard, you play by the rules, you make your contributions, wait your turn, pledge allegiance to the flag, and obtain your citizenship.
English
@the_culturist_ They were made to reproduce; beauty plays an important role in that process.
English
Beauty is proof that humans weren't made just to survive.
English
Oxford AI professor Michael Wooldridge: "ChatGPT doesn't understand anything. It's essentially doing some fancy statistics."
English
Polls follow the people.
A leader leads them.
The Knowledge Archivist@KnowledgeArchiv
The man had IRON in him "I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind. An inability to chart a course. Whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. You're not a leader" —Lee Kuan Yew
English
@sanfilti @UziCryptoo For a fair comparison of the *prices* of property one must look not only at purchase prices but at the capitalized perpetual stream of (estimated) property tax payments.
English
@UziCryptoo Ain’t no way that your property taxes in Texas equal to Californian housing.
My friend showed me his 1100 square foot house for 1.2 million in cali. That kinda money gets you a farm in Texas.
English
6 years of living in Texas and I've come to the conclusion that the no state income tax thing is basically a scam. The property taxes are so high that they negate any savings. We are still paying as many taxes in Texas as we would in California. You save on gas I guess.
English