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A sad war makes my brain play this in the background :(
Cohérence@coherence_e
Le Boléro hypnotique de Maurice Ravel 🎶😘 Bonne fin de soirée
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Umbrius Quinctius Cincinnatus
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Umbrius Quinctius Cincinnatus
@thefirstutopian
A dictator comes when times are dire and bows out when the job is done. Machiavelli. Nietzsche. Weber. Deleuze. Graeber. The Iron Cage is the new Cave.
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@ole_b_peters I worked on Simon’s bounded rationality. Feel like there’s a connection between satisficing and ergodicity breaking.
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@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.
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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
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@BevansAdvocate @Maze_s_Center @MarcDunkelman Best people and big projects instead of best people and small projects.
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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
Anna Riedl@AnnaLeptikon
Is there a book that’s the antithesis to Seeing Like a State? Summarizing the most successful top-down state-driven initiatives to save and improve lives and their underlying principles?
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@fiddesmark @ProfSunnySingh Hey! Don’t knock pulp fiction lol
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@ProfSunnySingh While the Iranian Ambassador quotes Jane Austen, the US Minister of War quotes Pulp Fiction believing it to be The Bible.
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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.
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@morallawwithin That’s not philosophy. That’s misosophy
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Philosophy is the most wonderful thing in the world, but so many people use it as an unnecessarily complicated way to lobotomize themselves
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@spqr_sulla Religiousness in all its variations, has the practice of faith in common. Faith in a specific set of rules for how reality works. Even atheists typically have faith in the consistency of principles discovered through observing evidence, for example. Religio is inevitable method.
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@cognuminous @spqr_sulla That’s also religious.
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@spqr_sulla What if you believe in God, and angels, and demons, and the power of prayer, but not in the purported distinction between “natural” and “supernatural”? Anything God makes is real, & therefore part of nature; any conception of nature lacking it is incomplete.
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@Naturalphilosy @RyanHaecker Sadly there’s also a lot of luck in that. It’s a good measure of a society when all those around a man are capable and virtuous.
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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
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@freganmitts @lymanstoneky All you have to do is ask how do they make you feel? Swntiments are the real rationalisation :’)
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@freganmitts @lymanstoneky Many other arguments against the hive mind. Don’t think one needs such a micro-valuation their ethical monotheism to decide that we should fight and get rid of them.
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Yglesias is correct. The current pervasive frameworks for thinking about these issues don’t allow us to articulate what most of us already know. That’s why THIS was one of the boldest moments in recent television history:
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
See the reason my article is titled “Dogs aren’t people” is precisely because I believe a lot of errors in dog policy stem precisely from confusing issues related to human children and issues related to non-human canines. slowboring.com/p/dogs-arent-p…
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@martinez_j7902 @Lowkey0nline lol Biden really sucked. Democrats are so fucked
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@Lowkey0nline No matter who you vote for the rich stay rich , the poor stay poor.
And the bombs never stop
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Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone.
He ordered ten times more drone strikes than Bush and even joked "I'm really good at killing people."
Pop Base@PopBase
Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ at a childcare center in the Bronx.
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Would go so far to say that Obama was worse than Trump. Pretends to be a virtuous man, is actually also a narcissist.
Lowkey@Lowkey0nline
Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone. He ordered ten times more drone strikes than Bush and even joked "I'm really good at killing people."
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@hartsellml @ProfHall1955 Yes! Everyone’s quoting Carnegie instead of Nietzsche today.
“I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.”
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@ProfHall1955 Entrepreneurs replaced the philosopher as the highest men of the city (civilization)
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Listen, Thiel and the other poundshop philosopher-kings, stop saying democracy is not OK while systematically miseducating people and dumbing down popular culture. The rest of you, stop listening to these money-grubbing midwits. Have you got that? Good.
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@StocksandSpurs @AaronBastani Or people who can’t justify supporting other humans are the real wimps.
You can’t deal with the world changing and you resent it. But you’re not gonna steer it in the direction you’d like it to go, because you’re actually a pussy.
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@AaronBastani I agree but aren’t you the big baby who had to take 6 months off work with depression when someone in your family died? Imagine if we all did that. Ah my hamster died, I’m depressed. I need 6 weeks off work. What happened to the backbone of our society. Most are wimps.
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“Football isn’t a matter of life and death. It’s much more serious than that”.
- Bill Shankly.
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Roshan M Salih@RmSalih
Imagine having so little of importance in your life that you cry like a baby over a football match. Grown adults with meaningless lives. Britain is full of these people.
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@iamnopilot @EtheHerring We’ve hacked ourselves.
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Umbrius Quinctius Cincinnatus ری ٹویٹ کیا
im moving to new york to befriend this guy specifically
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@Bee_Anarchy843 @AntoniusOhii Clap back should be, “If you’re over 40 and still a conservative / centrist, you gotta re-evaluate everything holmes.”
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This is how conservatives talk about progressives
It spawns from this idea that a want for change, unity, understanding ect. is a biproduct of foolish innocence. That time will beat hate into you.
Lefttwt Confessions@AnonLefttwt
"if you're over the age of like, 20 and still an anarchist, you gotta grow up bud."
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@Paul_Heron_ But what else is there? We are prisoners and the world is a prison. The good thing is that the prison guards are also prisoners. And the prisoners are also prison guards, if they choose to be and are able to impose their will.
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To add to DFW’s remarks… In one 2004 book Baudrillard defined what was then taking shape as ”Integral Reality”. The world as we experience it through all our digital technologies. A smaller, diminished world, but one which seems self-contained, self-sufficient. So that books and other ”obsolete” media now appear to be entirely unnecessary.
But believing this Integral Reality is all there is and all we need is like being a prisoner and convincing yourself the prison is the world.
Alex & Books 📚@AlexAndBooks_
David Foster Wallace on why people struggle to read books: (this was filmed in 2003 but is even more true today)
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@Leo1000SF @denimneverdies @naranciagaming I predict that we will see a revival in religion. Not in the same forms of universal churches and communities. But perhaps in a return to a new form of paganism and local or ideological communalism.
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@denimneverdies @naranciagaming The past, present, and future are obviously religious. That’s an inescapable conclusion. People simply do not become rational atheists if established religions fade. Instead they latch onto seemingly secular (and yet clearly supernatural) dogmas like trans fundamentalism!
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The future is not religious. Whatever your feelings about religion, you best come to terms with that fact
Don Hughes@getfiscal
Looked it up because I was curious after all the takes.
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