Umbrius Quinctius Cincinnatus

A sad war makes my brain play this in the background :(

@420GHz @patriach2051 Capitalism takes advantage of our need for paying our debts back. It’s not only the bourgeois, the proletariat is also complicit.

@420GHz @patriach2051 My mistake. I meant the human condition is having security and the feeling of obligation, and that we can trade that for freedom by not blindly following the logic of debt.

@prinkasusa @ESH1721 I wanted a soft woman who likes being dominated in bed. And I found one :) Ok I didn’t actually know what I wanted until I found love.

“I want a soft, feminine, traditional woman” SHUT UP. What you actually want is someone who COOKS, CLEANS, stays ATTRACTIVE for you, and revolves her LIFE around your needs. That’s not about softness, nurturing, or femininity... it’s about CONTROL and CONVENIENCE. You don’t want a PARTNER. You want someone who gives EVERYTHING and asks for NOTHING in return. You want a SERVICE.

@SomethingOnSnow @ChinaTeacher1 Hello Charles Ponzi!

@ChinaTeacher1 It can be your economy if you invest.

Best argument for: The stock market is NOT the REAL economy.

Listening to @uberboyo smash @PageauJonathan in Nietzsche vs Christ. If only his history was a little stronger, the win would have been even more comprehensive. Christ of course is a worthy prophet. Sadly Christianity ruined his ideas. There shall be no Nietzscheanism.

@xenocosmography Has Land moved toward a monotheistic logic? Or does he still favour polytheism? Asking for a friend.

@magnushambleton Pwahhh! In addition to Euler - Rousseau as well.

It wasn’t until I lived in Switzerland, a country with very similar population to Sweden but which has produced basically zero internationally famous people in any domain, that I realised how special Sweden is

@paulnovosad To be fair there are prodigies like Hofmannsthal and D’annunzio who did what they did before they knew what they were doing.

People act like good writing is just a thing you have or you don't, like gonorrhea. But good writers know exactly what they are doing and exactly what is wrong with bad writing. You can learn these things but you must study them.

@sardonic_greek @robertlasagna1 The king of schizophrenic literature.

The Bible is the greatest postmodern literary work of all time

So refreshing to see Craig as a mad excited fanboy <3

@TheRabbitHole @apascoe33 If individuals need laws to be defended from the collective, that collective is lost already.

Individuals > Collectives

@musllaq @boguswaves1 Not saying Marx and science aren’t important but it is also ok to depart from both if it helps advancing communist or anarchist principles even within a strong republic.

@boguswaves1 Marx le da el carácter científico al movimiento comunista, y sin eso no se va a ninguna parte.

I think it's actually pretty bad that communist has become synonymous with Marxist

@millerman Resonates with founding principles of duty and virtue, which are central, not optional for a republic. But too easily shrugs off civilian control and checks and balances on central military power. Kinda makes the manifesto look like virtue signalling, just to drum up business.

On the viral Palantir thread (overview of their arguments from The Technological Republic): did you disapprove? Okay, well, let's state the opposite thesis to the ones listed. This isn't perfect; you could take issue with the original framing or premise. But it is still helpful. 1. Silicon Valley owes nothing to the country that made its rise possible 2. Apps are our greatest invention and crowning civilizational achievement 3. Free email justifies elite decadence. Economic growth and security are not important. 4. Moral harangues are politically effective without hard power backing them 5. Our adversaries won't develop weapons that are harmful towards us but will rather indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of development such technologies 6. Citizens should have a disproportionate share in the risk and cost of war 7. We should let our debates about the appropriateness of military action stifle the development of military capability, denying soldiers access to improved weaponry and software 8. Public servants should be our priests; the federal government is as fiscally responsible in compensating federal employees as private sector companies are in compensating theirs 9. We should not tolerate the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche when dealing with public figures; nobody should be forgiven for anything; entering public life should mean instant exposure to life-destroying shame 10. We should rely on politics to nourish our souls and rely heavily on our internal life finding expression in people we've never met 11. We should rejoice at the vanquishing of our enemies 12. We are not entering a new era of deterrence built on AI. We remain primarily in the atomic age. 13. The United States is not unique among the countries of the world in offering opportunities to those who are not hereditary elites 14. It is not true that too many have forgotten or take for granted an era of relative peace made possible by American power 15. Postwar pacification and neutralization of Japan and Germany poses no threat to Europe 16. We should not applaud builders like Elon Musk, who deserves our scorn and whose inventions and contributions should be dismissed 17. Silicon Valley should play no role in addressing violent crime 18. We should not foster talent in government service; empty ambition is enough 19. Public figures should prioritize caution and safety above all things, making sure never to rock the boat with what they say or do 20. Elite intolerance of religious belief is good and reflects the openness of elite intellectual life 21. Either no cultures have produced wonders or all cultures have; either no cultures are middling, regressive, and harmful or else all of them are. 22. We must not resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. National cultures should not be defined. Vague inclusivity is preferable to distinctions that risk excluding and offending.

@ole_b_peters I worked on Simon’s bounded rationality. Feel like there’s a connection between satisficing and ergodicity breaking.

@thefirstutopian That's precisely where it sits: one reason why game theory looks so different when agents move from optimizing expected utility to optimizing long-term outcomes under repetition.

In the infamous coin toss, the individual loses while the collective gains. Forget that this is often illustrated with dollars. The point is: the act is self-destructive for the individual, yet beneficial for the collective. It's a nucleation problem: one alone cannot do it, but a few individuals sticking together can access the collective good. #ErgodicityEconomics

@Kulambq Can confirm, worth it.

Swiss Alps.

@BevansAdvocate @Maze_s_Center @MarcDunkelman Best people and big projects instead of best people and small projects.

This book by @MarcDunkelman is probably the closest thing I'd describe as the anti Seeing Like A State, a pretty convincing defence of professional bureaucracies with broad remits to address societal problems

@fiddesmark @ProfSunnySingh Hey! Don’t knock pulp fiction lol

@ProfSunnySingh While the Iranian Ambassador quotes Jane Austen, the US Minister of War quotes Pulp Fiction believing it to be The Bible.

Iran’s diplomat makes a Jane Austen reference. White British male newscaster does not get it. SO much of contemporary British cultural hubris and ignorance (even of themselves) encapsulated in this clip.