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Daniel Kodsi

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NYC exceptionalist [email protected]

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Daniel Kodsi
Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
For The Philosophers’ Magazine, John Maier (@johnmaier_) and I have written the best and final diagnosis of the culture wars, explaining in unified terms what is wrong with all of the things you dislike and many more. The problem, we explain, is exceptionalism, a tendency to throw rules and principles to the wind when presented with apparent exceptions. Exceptionalism is practiced by the exceptionalist, a tedious character, and related to overfitting, a widely recognized scientific pathology. It is manifest in cases ranging from gender ideology to Covid-19 maximalism. I hope you’ll take some time to read the essay (link in the next tweet). Many of you follow me because of my previous writing with John on the viciousness of trans activism. But trans activism is just the most blatant example of exceptionalism, a much broader pathology of our culture.
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Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
And you looked on at it all? O my animals, are you also cruel? Did you like to look at my great pain as men do? For man is the cruellest animal. At tragedies, bull-fights, and crucifixions has he thus far been happiest on earth; and when he invented his hell, behold, that was his heaven on earth. When the great man cries-: immediately runs the little man there, and his tongue hangs out of his mouth for very lusting. He, however, calls it his "pity." The little man, especially the poet - how passionately does he accuse life in words! Listen to him, but do not fail to hear the delight which is in all accusation! Such accusers of life - them life overcomes with a glance of the eye. "you lovest me?" says the insolent one; "wait a little, as yet have I no time for you." Towards himself man is the cruellest animal; and in all who call themselves "sinners" and "bearers of the cross" and "penitents," do not overlook the voluptuousness in their plaints and accusations! And I myself - do, I thereby want to be man's accuser? Ah, my animals, this only have I learned thus far, that for man his most bad is necessary for his best,- -That all that is most bad is the best power, and the hardest stone for the highest creator; and that man must become better and more bad:- Not to this torture-stake was I tied, that I know man is bad, - but I cried, as no one has yet cried: "Ah, that his most bad is so very small! Ah, that his best is so very small!" The great disgust at man - it strangled me and had crept into my throat: and what the soothsayer had presaged: "All is alike, nothing is worthwhile, knowledge strangles." A long twilight limped on before me, a fatally weary, fatally intoxicated sadness, which spoke with yawning mouth.
Eye-Witness@oculatustestis

Prefacing the ‘Rape Gang Inquiry’ with Nietzsche: “Man is the cruellest animal [...] do, I thereby want to be man's accuser? Ah, my animals, this only have I learned thus far, that for man his most bad is necessary for his best,” is a daringly Clear-pilled choice.

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Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
@wesyang The most telling clip that I saw was the one in which he fretted about the prospect of "line goes down".
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Wesley Yang@wesyang·
Everybody knew TACO all along
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Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
List of greatest cities: 1. New York City List of all cities: 1. New York City
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Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
I'm thrilled that people want to live in NYC. It's good when people know what's good for them. How could I resent other people for wanting to live in the best - in fact, the only - city in the world?
Jo@junker_jo

You ever notice how when a normal city gets so good that more people want to live there they consider it a sign of success and brag about it but when NYC has people want to live there the bucket crabs start scrambling to tell us how miserable and resentful they all are

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Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
And in Buffett's case, this error is especially impressive, because he wrote decades' worth of letters explaining his system of beliefs about investing. He even explains why Berkshire Hathaway itself limits purchases in stock—because capital invested in Berkshire is more productive than capital invested in other companies.
Evil (Political) Scientist@knrd_z

"Warren Buffett wouldn't even spend his money" is exactly the same error as the implicit belief that Elon has a giant Scrooge McDuck vault

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Frog of Future Past
Frog of Future Past@wiggitywamy·
@oecolamp @designengvinci Hey there is this neat tool they recently invented that can explain anything to you, even if you're retarded. Check it out.
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Matthew
Matthew@Lux1090·
@dfkodsi @ded_ruckus So women get to cast votes, but it's only registered as valid if it matches how their husband voted?
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Dedicating Ruckus
Dedicating Ruckus@ded_ruckus·
okay, here's the final answer to the Suffrage Question we wouldn't want to stoke gender-war fires by proposing to disenfranchise one gender or the other so instead: 1. only married couples can vote, 2. they get one ballot, which 3. only counts if they both agree on selections
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Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
@Lux1090 @ded_ruckus Then they cast their votes independently, and any vote that doesn't match with its spouse-vote isn't counted.
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Matthew@Lux1090·
@ded_ruckus No way of checking point 3. Just reproduce the way Pakistani families vote where women sign on the dotted line as their husband tells them to
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Bernard Stanford ✡︎
Bernard Stanford ✡︎@stanfordNYC·
It's insane that anybody EVER endorsed getting rid of standardized testing, a system with extremely obvious utility. You leave the left alone for five minutes, and they start searching around for "make everything worse" switches.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79

Columbia University has reinstated standardized testing for admissions — the last Ivy League school to do it. “Through a multi-year faculty review, it was determined that test scores, among other factors, were a useful indicator of potential student success.”

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Daniel Kodsi
Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
@stanfordNYC "We're masters of the air" is out of place here (given that we are masters of it, it should be a controlled environment).
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ƨꭋɘƨꭋɘvdo
ƨꭋɘƨꭋɘvdo@obversers·
as I see it, one of the really difficult parts of being a normal, pro-civilization woman is that you're constantly having to dodge moralistic traps by a small but influential cohort of women who weepily demand that you help them in enabling every kind of civilizational decay.
ƨꭋɘƨꭋɘvdo@obversers

@moultano of all the people I've ever met who actually think "civilization is bad, we should just return to nature" and "it's mean to have laws and rules and punishment, let's just not", 90%+ have been women. the male dysfunction is "burn it down", the female one is "let it burn down."

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Michael Showalter
Michael Showalter@MikeJShowalter·
Two years before ChatGPT was released, a legal writing professor catalogued dozens of court opinions from the 2010s calling out specific lawyers for sloppiness and poor advocacy. The examples are wild.
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i/o@avidseries·
Maybe this is my American bias intruding, but my guess is that if the US had faced what several European nations have faced with respect to Muslim immigrants — parallel societies, crime rates 10 to 50 times greater than native rates, full-time employment rates below 50%, majorities leeching one way or another off welfare and social services, church burnings, street beheadings, craven obsequiousness by governments in the face of Muslim cultural aggression, laws prosecuting and imprisoning citizens for speaking up about immigration, mass organized gang raping of white girls, no-go zones, selective government recognition of Sharia law, bombings, constant unending propaganda about the value of global south immigration and the evils of speaking up against it, preferences in favor of immigrants in public housing, government suppression of anti-immigrant political groups and parties (and of its own data about immigrants), riots, Muslim politicians from some of the most racist countries on earth lecturing white people in legislatures about "Islamophobia", exponential growth in the population share of Muslims, immigrant descendants demonstrating higher criminality and more anti-West hatred than their parents, majority percentages of Muslim immigrants expressing support for Sharia law — if we, as Americans, had faced what the citizens of many European nations have faced, it would not have taken long before our rage, if unacknowledged and not effectively addressed by our government, would have likely led to the formation of organized groups committed to violent retribution against those responsible for the mess.
i/o@avidseries

This gets to the heart of the matter. In the highly likely event that mass organized anti-immigrant violence ever erupts in low-T Europe, it would be more effectively directed at the Keir Starmers and Denis MacShanes than the rapey Pakistanis. Or at least that would be more satisfying.

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Daniel Kodsi
Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
Much reasoning about voting reflects a complete confusion of means and end. A more indirect way this manifests is in the idea that you should vote on the basis of what you imagine to be best for the whole country. No, ideally, you vote on the basis of what you know to be best for your family, and the voting mechanism aggregates all that information washing out the individual idosyncrasies.
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus

Yeah you can tell these people have begun to worship the concept of the vote. As if they’ve forgotten the purpose of organizing a society is to benefit that society. Voting is just one way to organize, often a very good way to organize, but it does have its downsides. Any honest exploration of these is met with the religious fervor of encountering a heretic.

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Daniel Kodsi
Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
What? I once dated *a philosopher who worked on Kant*, and was not certain of having someone I could pose any random question to about Kant at 11pm. Anti-AI academics like Keegin seem to be just unbelievably supercilious and superficial, with these bizarre little assumptions about the world - ones that LLMs could easily spot as unrealistic - that they smugly rely on. What's the background generalization here? As an academic, should I have someone on speed dial for each of the 1,000 most important topics? Or, as his follow-up post suggests, laboriously set up meetings with harried experts whenever I want to think through a new topic?
Joseph Keegin@jmkeegin

I'm sorry but if you're an academic—someone who makes a living reading, writing, thinking, and teaching—and you can't find a real flesh-and-blood interlocutor for a late-night discussion of the most important and widely-studied thinker of the modern age, you should be embarrassed

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