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@woke8yearold On average, sure. There's a lot of variance and the bad schools are truly atrocious.

American public schooling being generally good is one of those funny things that all political factions hate for different reasons

George Carlin infected Gen-X with this horrible apathy towards everything. The statue doesn’t just mock nationalism but belief itself. Any ideology, any group, any loyalty. It’s like they think they’re the first person to discover ideologies or positions all have tradeoffs, and because they’re not perfect it’s better to stand against them all. It’s as childish as it is false. A few minute conversation with anyone who puts on this front will quickly reveal which ideologies they feel are above such critiques. When exposed that John Stewart wry smile turns into the most vitriolic anger you’ve ever seen.

My view: the Great Awokening is over, but, by default, will be back even worse in 20 years. This cycle has already happened twice, with the 60s/70s New Left and 90s PC. Each time, some of the worst excesses are undone but nowhere near enough to reverse the previous wave.

One way you could get around this is by teaching "Race War in High School" or "Danger in Washington", combined with basic science on how funding barely matters for school outcomes, to establish that opponents of the Civil Rights movement were sometimes right.

Fascinating article on the SPLC indictment. Basically, they managed to make themselves a pseudo-regulatory agency that could debank anyone they deemed a hate group. So when they wanted to pay members of hate groups, they had to lie to banks, which is a crime.

@BecomingCritter I'm replying here, aren't I?

regardless of your account size, do you identify as a reply guy?

It's crazy how there is basically no downside to long-term institutionalization of people this far gone and we just won't do it It's better for them It's better for the public It's much cheaper But it would require making someone do something they didn't want to do

Society is a contract between the dead, the living, and those yet unborn.

What people mean by virtue signaling is false coinage. Virtue is precious, rare, and should be rewarded, the social currency should not be debased.

This is of course completely true. Whatever Centrist Libs say about building things, the Democratic Party and the left more generally is the party of not building things. They are skeptical of business. They are skeptical of tech. They are skeptical of landlords and new apartment buildings. They are skeptical of markets, skeptical of investing, skeptical of finance. I don’t even understand what these abundance people are doing. Like, just become a republican, bro. You’re natural Republicans. You’re all educated, 40-something white guys. You’re Republicans. Like, there’s already a word for people who believe the things you believe. It’s, “republican.”

The Reasonable Centrists play the role of sane-washing the progressive apparatus and making reasonable-sounding appeals for increased tax revenue. But once the money goes in it gets wasted or is spent on crazy things and the public ends up getting very little in return for what it pays in. Any focus on ‘outputs,’ on things actually being built, will be met with hostility, because expenditures the public would actually benefit from are in zero sum competition with vast patronage networks feeding at the trough.

I’ve never worked out exactly how to say this in a way that perfectly maps on to the sense I have of it, but it’s something in the left wing brain that sees institutions as more like powerful natural phenomena, instead of as collections of individual human beings with individual desires and motivations. The local school, their Landlord, the comedy cellar, IBM — the way they think of it is that there are regular people like you and me and then there are these enormous constructs that have just kind of always existed and in some sense always will exist, as though they were imbued with power by our creator at the beginning of the universe. I think it’s a sign of a certain kind of stunted development. They see these institutions sort of in the same way that an eight year-old views their parents, not really as fully formed human beings with their own incentives, but rather as all powerful overseers from whom infinite resources can be extracted, because they’ve always been there and always will be there. Similarly, to an eight-year-old, their classroom at school needs no explanation or justification; it has always existed, always will exist. How did the chairs get there? How are teachers hired? What do we want to teach? These are questions that have to be answered by actual, living, breathing individuals who respond to incentives. But the eight-year-old doesn’t think about any of that. The classroom is just *there*. How could it be otherwise? The world has always just simply contained classrooms. This is how the progressive sees the world around them — as an eight-year-old sees their parents or their teachers or the chairs and desks in their classroom. This is how you get these situations where progressives are mad that the last remaining grocery store in the ghetto doesn’t have fresh enough produce and so they make the store stock fresh produce and then when this pushes so hard on the margins that the store is no longer profitable and closes, the progressive demands that the store remain open to serve the failing neighborhood. It’s as if the store is eternal. You have to be unable to imagine a time before or after the store. You have to see the world as an eight year-old sees the world. The neighborhood grocery store merely exists. It has always existed. It must always exist. The work of the entrepreneur is invisible. The incentives that keep the store open are not legible. Neighborhoods just simply have grocery stores. This is the store in my neighborhood. If you just kind of squint at communism, what it looks like to me like is an attempt to make this relationship to reality concrete. They think they can make this understanding of the world reality. They want to make it so that all of these hidden, invisible incentives and constraints are officially irrelevant. They’ve never understood what they were for, anyway. They usually don’t even notice them. It only frustrates them to hear them pointed out. The neighborhood grocery store should simply just exist, as it has always existed.

@planefag On the other hand, maintaining installers and binaries for multiple targets is a nontrivial amount of labor to ask for, especially from what are often hobby projects.

@planefag Like I said, it's there to share git repositories among developers. Managing releases is a secondary feature. I know that many projects are poorly documented and not very portable, which is frustrating, and the site has gone downhill since it was purchased by Microsoft.

ACKTHUALLY you can clone a whole repo straight from the command line if you know the username and repository name if you need the website to find it at all you don't really deserve to use that code

@robinhanson Or just kill multiple people.

Not if we assign someone who has killed before to the task of killing killers.

"Norms enjoyers" whenever the system creates an outcome they don't like

@planefag One the one hand, yes. On the other hand, you get what you pay for, and this software is free. If it bothers you that much, you can do the work of compiling and distributing executables yourself, you know?

I *can* figure it out and it's still fucking annoying.