Electric Monk v2

@minordissent Often intelligence is its own worst enemy Lamborghinis are super easy to drive into a ditch. But with Lambos, most people at least KNOW they're in a ditch Wisdom - proper accretion of experience - is key here Higher IQs can drive higher accretion speed Too high - accretes crap

Focusing on IQ as an end all be all in life is like focusing on HP as an end all be all in a car race. First of all, to think that the HP of your engine is the success criteria rather than your placement in the race is retarded. Second, there are so obviously many more variables than HP that determine your placement in the race. Tires, suspension, downforce, weight, cooling, and most importantly driver skill. an F1 driver will wipe the floor in F2 because he’s just a better driver. And if you are driving an F1 car in an F2 race (ie youre smarter than everyone you work with) but you’re not winning, it’s not because “the world is unfair” it’s because you’re a bad driver.

@MichaelJGras @wesyang It's you who FIRST wants to impose on everyone the duty to call a deer a horse. And THEN fend off any pushback with the mind-numbingly disingenuous "your obsession with antlers is insufferable" BS.

@wesyang Yes Wesley, you have a right to obsess over other people's genitals. That does not impose a duty on anyone else to think you're not insufferable about it.

Everyone has a right to pretend to be something they are not. It does not impose a duty on any other person to pretend with them. Elliott Page changed her name and is dosing herself with steroids but remains the woman today that she was before she began harming her endocrine system with wrong sex hormones and no one has to pretend to believe otherwise.

@G79Johnny14157 @HistoryBoomer Except it's true. Bill Maher is the paragon, the sensible reasonable Democrat who managed to avoid getting his brain fried in the 2010s wokesplosion - and has the backbone to stand up to the (sadly, unstoppable) hordes who did. And even he supports mass immigration.

@ElectricMonkM2 @HistoryBoomer You said all Dems want to bring 100 million illegals into the country. That is a nonsensical thing to say and believe about half of the voters in your country.

Twitter conservative: Democrats have no theory of mind for conservatives. They turn us all into stupid caricatures. Also Twitter conservative: Democrats are all communists who hate America and want to bring in 100 million illegal immigrants and impose Sharia law!

@SInow Genesis 9:13 "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth." What is this, the establishing of precedence in a usage-of-trademark dispute?

Three Giants pitchers wore Bible verses on their Pride Night caps during Friday’s game. MLB has since issued a warning to them.

@FrankfurtZack @WallStreetMav AfD is an absolute landslide in East Germany. Among the people who have had enough Soviet sh*t for the next ten generations. Rhetoric that AfD are Nazi (i.e. mass murderers of Jews and gays, invaders of Slav lands), gets increasingly laughed out of the room. They'll reach 50%

@WallStreetMav AFD will never reach anything near 50% And they don't want to go into a coalition with other parties So they always stay in opposition

In Germany the current govt coalition is CDU (black) and SPD (red). They don't have much in common, but they typically join for a "grand coalition" when an election in inconclusive. They have both fallen so low that the could not form another govt if an election were held today. They would need a Black, Red and Green coalition, which makes no sense because the Green party has zero common ground with the CDU/CSU (black). But they would do (black, red, green) it to keep the AfD out of power, because the AfD is the only party that wants mass deportations. However now, even the possible black, red, green coalition wouldn't have a majority. The AfD is becoming so large in the polls that it is becoming impossible for the other German parties to form any coherent coalition.

@Devon_Eriksen_ "Your ancestors weren't like this" It's.. complicated. Even centuries ago, Europe was suffocatingly overregulated. But mostly safe. Crossing to USA was a leap into a *riskier* life. But it gave freedom. USA thus filtered Europeans for a particular spirit. Which made USA grow.

Dear Europeans... Buck-ee's is just normal stuff to us. Yeah, sure, it's freakishly big, and has lots of cool stuff. But "freakishly big and has lots of cool stuff" is also a pretty good way to describe America. Why? It's not because we're somehow genetically superior. We come from roughly the same genepool. And it's not because we somehow looted the third world... you did a lot more empire-building than we ever did. It's because of the difference between your politics and ours. And between your social mores and ours. We have what we call a permissive environment. That means that if someone sees a possibility, wants to solve a problem, comes up with a better way to do something, even something small... He's encouraged to try. The government won't make him fill out 67 thousand forms and make him wait five years for permission. His neighbors won't sneer at him and say he's getting ideas above his station. Investors will actually want to talk to him, and think seriously about whether they want in on the action. We know this seems brash and arrogant and reckless to you. We know you think a lot of these ideas are stupid. Some of them are. But every creative idea, even the best ones, seems really, really dumb when you first come up with it, haven't tried it out, haven't refined it into what it eventually needs to be. "He shoots spiderwebs out of his hands? What kind of useless power is that?" "They're wizards who fight with magic swords, but they fly around the galaxy in spaceships?" "Nobody is going to want to buy books online! How are they supposed to thumb through them?" "The best minds have been trying heavier-than-air flight for years and failing." "Reusable rocket boosters are a pipe dream." Name any good idea anyone has ever had, and I can describe it the way it might have looked to people of its time, which makes it sound dumb, or wicked, or hopeless, or reckless, or arrogant. If Buck-ee's had occurred to a European, which it easily could have, he would have been laughed off the stage. Or unable to raise money to try it. Or regulated out of existence. This is why you're poor. It's not because you suck. You don't suck. But you are micromanaging yourselves and each other out of existence. Your ancestors weren't like this. And you don't have to be.

@FolkeneMine @DrewResea @ThaisEscufon Yes, and it doesn't contradict the iron rule. "Rapist fractions" RF(🇩🇪➡️🇩🇪) < RF(🇷🇺➡️🇷🇺) < RF(🇩🇪➡️🇷🇺) << RF(🇷🇺➡️🇩🇪) The 4th was shockingly high. The iron rule is extra-tribal >> intra-tribal 3>>1 4>>2 It doesn't magically vanish when globalists want to flood us with Africans

@ElectricMonkM2 @DrewResea @ThaisEscufon In WWII, Germans were the best behaved of all the forces you've named, with Americans (and many of those were Black) and Brits and Russians in particular (the front lines were Mongolians) raping at least 800,000 Germans, if not into the millions - including children and old women

Europeans and American patriots! Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.” Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large. I need your help to generate media pressure and hope to be acquitted. They cannot silence the truth! Thank you for your support 💪🏻🇫🇷

@Donna_Rachel_ The biggest problem survivors have is that after all that the rapists and the SYSTEM did to them, there's one report Rachel dislikes. Spins aren't exactly uncommon on twitter. But this is spinning so hard, it needs to be attached to a generator and supply electricity to ⅓ of UK

Ok, I've now taken a closer look at the Rape Gang Inquiry report. And exactly as I feared, it's riddled with problems. That's a problem FOR SURVIVORS because it politicises their lives, making it all too easy for the government and institutions to write off their very real experiences as a 'far right dog whistle'. It also does absolutely nothing to hold the police and social services to account, because the blame for the gangs is laid squarely at the feet of Islam. If the outcome of this report is that the Muslims are driven out of Britain, giving other group free rein to rape our girls, that's not going to be a win for anyone. Here's 10 issues with the report: 1. The verdict is assumed from the start. Where were the terms of reference? There are none, so we have no idea what question the inquiry was investigating. Instead it appears to have worked backwards from a premise: "The root cause was immigration, beginning with the British Nationality Act 1948" and "Oil and water do not mix" (both p.3). 2. It proves nothing about prevalence — it found what it went looking for. It set out to examine "predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs" (p.7), then reports that "the same ethnic and religious profile… [was] documented throughout almost all of the witnesses who contacted the Inquiry" (p.12). Self-selected witnesses confirming the inquiry's own premise is not a finding. 3. The theology chapter refutes itself. It argues Islamic doctrine drives the crimes, then concedes Indian-heritage Muslims "are notably rare compared with those of Pakistani heritage" (p.118). Same scripture, opposite outcome — which points to sociology, not theology. 4. The 250,000 figure is a peer's rhetorical question, recycled. The report quotes Lord Pearson asking whether "there appear to have been upwards of 250,000 young white girls raped in this century" (p.12) — a question in a Lords debate, not a finding — then treats it as established. 5. It then claims that guess has gained support — and contradicts its own source two pages later. "this extrapolation now has greater support" (p.12), yet on the next page it concedes the scale is "impossible to quantify precisely" (p.13, summarising the Casey audit). You can't put a hard floor of 250,000 on a number you call unquantifiable. 6. It claims the criminal standard of proof for claims it can't support. "establishes beyond any doubt" (p.3) and "demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt" (p.159) — that phrase is trial standard, used for figures sourced to a guess and a self-published book. 7. It conflates grooming gangs with all child exploitation to inflate scale. "almost 19,000 children were identified as sexual exploitation victims in England in one year" (p.13) — that's all CSE in England, not grooming gangs, but it's used to prop up the grooming-gang numbers. 8. Single cases are stretched into decades-long patterns. "the first recorded case of specifically Pakistani rape gangs dates back to 1955" (p.11) — one 1955 case, used to anchor a claim that the phenomenon was systematic from the 1950s. 9. It has no hierarchy of evidence. A self-published book ("Easy Meat," p.106) and an advocacy group ("Christian Concern," p.7) are cited with the same weight as the Jay Report, IICSA and the Casey audit. 10. The framing hands every denier a free win. A Nietzsche epigraph — "Man is the cruellest animal" (p.4); Tommy Robinson listed among "whistleblowers" (p.157); a death-penalty call — "up to and including death" (p.3) and a "death penalty… referendum" (p.159); and collective punishment — perpetrators' "entire immediate family unit must also face deportation proceedings" (p.160), all of which politicise the issue, allowing the government and Lowe's opponents to flatly dismiss the all too real testimonies of survivors. Overall, the report does exactly what I feared it would - it actively HARMS survivors because the whole issue can now be dismissed as a far-right dog whistle. This report was created for one reason and one reason only: to create a political vehicle for Lowe, Downes, and their colleagues. Shame on the both of them for using survivors in this despicable way.

@DrewResea @ThaisEscufon Extra-tribal rape >> intra-tribal rape, for ANY tribe, at ANY point in history. Stats bear her out. But you don't even need to look at stats. It's an iron rule. In WWII, German men raped Russian women WAY more than they did German women. Ditto for Russian men. AND immigrants.

Be concerned of what has happened to her and she has every right to shout out the attacker. One minor issues: one ethnicity or skin tone don't make for her to point out meaning all. All lighter skin tone like her own comit numerous heinous crime and should not be overlooked. PS: Words have consequences.

Being governed by Starmer's Labour is like being trapped in a taxi with a man driving you full speed in the wrong direction, and pretending not to understand when you protest Digital ID; abortion to term; mass digital censorship; euthanasia. Who asked for any of this?

@crc7135 Yes, but it'd be SUPER dumb. It's very dumb to *not* exclude Soros and that (quite specific) ilk, but criminally dumb to exclude *all* Jews It'd be excluding the best. Nixon couldn't have had a better aide than Kissinger, nor Trump than Stephen Miller. Lonsdale is up there too

@ElectricMonkM2 @Devon_Eriksen_ @JTLonsdale Then on principle, Joe should have zero problem when Whites tribe up and exclude Jews from OUR networks and hiring, because goose, gander right? Jews are going to learn FAST that the days of unquestioned two tier “ethno-nepotism for me, but not for thee” are over for them.

If somebody says they don’t want to work for a white person, we should expose them. If they say they don’t want to work for a black person: expose them. Same for saying it about a Jew. But only pushing back on the third will earn you thousands of attacks from these troglodytes.

@jcallahanbryant @L0m3z Ballot harvesters are the Disciples of Alinsky. Organized Dems. I've read Alinsky. Pls skip the gaslighting. Abolish mail ballots for ALL except super justified cases like military on deployment. Require ID. You can't drag your ass to the booth, you don't vote. Meth, fent, IDGAF

@ElectricMonkM2 @L0m3z let’s do some basic social ontology. who is them? and how will the [insert state] legal system determine the group you want to define versus the field? people currently addict to meth? in the past? what do you make of DeSantis loosening restrictions on the franchise?

The mainstream conservative movement spends a lot of time dissembling about their preference to reduce the pool of voters through Voter ID laws and the like by talking about "fraud," but fraud is a secondary consideration. I think it is perfectly reasonable and would be electorally popular, and more honest, to simply say, "No, democracy does not entail putting ballots into the hands of meth addicts sleeping under a tent under the overpass whose sum engagement with civic life is jerking off in the bushes of the public park."

@G79Johnny14157 @HistoryBoomer Reading is not your forte, eh? Boomer: conservatives say all Ds are commies and want to impose Sharia. Me: Only some Ds are commies and only some want to impose Sharia, but EVERYONE who's a commie or a Shariatic, is in the D camp. NVM... you're too thick to get Venn diagrams.

@ElectricMonkM2 @HistoryBoomer You just proved his point

@GenHeres123 @minordissent Slavery *is* social engineering, bro. As old as the first civs, and one of their first inventions. It's the West that spearheaded its replacement with the tax-slave, who has to yield ⅓..½ of what he makes for enjoyment by an anointed caste, but otherwise having free movement.

@minordissent I used to believe in this, but after learning that slavery was legal two centuries ago, and that human rights didn't exist universally at all, I realized this is just right-wing romanticism. Social engineering can make any people completely different.

This singular idea probably did more heavy lifting than any other in turning me into an “evil right wing racist”. I distinctly remember the first time someone asked me “what would happen if you put everyone in America in Mexico and everyone in Mexico in America?”. I’d never considered it before. But thinking about it for not even a few minutes it became completely obvious that cultural chauvinism is the only defensible position.

@ArtemisConsort ☝️what LessWrongers need to hear. Many won't. Eliezer started as a truth seeker. Then Bayes was his hammer, and ontology looked like a nail Then he concluded the multiverse is the only true model for QM, b/c Occam, and whoever disagrees is a moron Amathia is the best word 🤷‍♂️

Since I am now “the writer Hunter Ash” I guess I should dictate some doctrine: 1. The main predictor of knowing true things is wanting to know true things. It took me a long time to understand that an alternative to this is possible: lots of people are not even trying. Your optimization criterion should be truth. Whatever else you want to accomplish, you’ll accomplish it more effectively if you know true things. Thus, the relationship to truth is a good measure of seriousness across the ideological spectrum. Most people are not trying to know true things. Don’t be too angry with them about this. Stay true to your path, the path, and give them grace. When gauging a source, gauge the extent to which they are zealots for truth. If you detect any other motivations, discard them. 2. The discovery of truth happened primarily before you existed, and in the future will primarily happen emergently between minds, not within your own. We learn via evolutionary processes, not rational ones. Rationality is a heuristic that can accelerate the process, a meta-adaptation, but it is not the ground of knowledge. Respect the millions of years of knowledge that built you. If you think you have a better way of doing things, you’re probably wrong. 3. No doctrine is final. No one ever has the full picture, including me. Everything is provisional.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @JTLonsdale You're 💯 right that the CRA1964 is an atrocity, that freedom of association is a sacred rule perverted by it, and that it must get wiped forever. That the kid is 💯 free to say what he said - as truly DUMB as it is. But that Joe is ALSO 💯 free to exclude him from his network.

Yes, I am. This attitude you have that racism is the ultimate evil that must be stamped out, even if we have to violate every other principle we used to have in order to do it... Well, it's downstream from the wrong conclusions about WW2, and upstream from the dissolution of Western civilization. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, along with deploying paratroopers to force children and bayonet-point into schools with people they didn't like or trust, was a conscious and deliberate attempt to rewrite American principles into their exact opposite. CRA1964 was, in fact if not in law, a new American constitution, because the entire apparatus of state now egregiously violates the original one to preserve the new core principle of "you are not allowed to exclude anyone". This new core principle is what you are appealing to. You, yourself, seem to identify as a bit of a conservative, but you've been psyoped to the point that what you are actually fighting to conserve is the framework created by communists to trick you. And as a result, Wittgenstein's ruler has become so warped for you that you're doing everything you can to harm some kid who wasn't trying to hurt you, has no power to hurt you, and you think you're the good guy because of this toxic principle. I would rather be surrounded by a society full of racial tension and conflict than a totalitarian social order that punishes thoughtcrime.

@beagewill @mtaibbi No way you'd have any self-awareness that YOU are one who reads Matt's comments, that YOU are one of the rare idiots in that category, and that this message wasn't for YOU? It's for people who are sick and tired of the imposed sacred cows du jour. You aren't -> it's not for you

@mtaibbi I think you should just leave it alone. It’s a nothing statement and commenting on it, drawing attention to it with your platform is just training idiots (people who still read you) to clap and laugh at a trans person. Maybe the message isn’t FOR YOU, dude. Leave it alone.

I’m fully in support of her right to identify as whatever she wants and have any surgeries she wants, even if I think it’s sad. Once, that would have been considered “pro-trans.” By “anti trans” do you mean I also shouldn’t laugh at things she says?

@Godel_number @xwanyex Not in itself. College-less men and women both had a slight R preference, as did college-educated men. It's college-educated women who *massively* leaned D. Enough to by themselves tip 2020, but no longer 2024. The grievance-studies majors are overwhelmingly female, of course.

@xwanyex Education is a better predictor of voting behaviour than gender, though. What we’re actually speedrunning to is an educated party and an uneducated party.

No theory of mind at all over and over again until the sun burns out. “Rubes shouldn’t vote” is a perfectly fine and fun thing to discuss over coffee or on X. I would probably end up finding many of the same problems with it as you would and many of those problems would overlap with those from denying the franchise to women.

@realJeremyCarl Trump won't run in 2028 anyway & it should be perfectly possible to hold that * this war was an absolute indisputable SNAFU * even in spite of that, we remain indescribably fortunate that Ds didn't win * if R voters pout out 2028 & Ds win, then R voters DESERVE the oncoming hell

If we do this deal with Iran, I am going to support President Trump. If somehow the deal collapses, and we go back to hostilities with Iran, I am still going to support President Trump. There are *a lot* of people screeching on X now, who only support President Trump if he gives them exactly what they want in a foreign war thousands of miles away from America, and I hope the President notices who they are.