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Suicide of the Liberals | Gary Saul Morson
Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing . . . .
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Jacob
This seems important, on political violence and cowardly liberals in pre-revolutionary russia
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Curtis Yarvin Live at the Based Deleuze Release Party in LA (Mencius Moldbug)
In this epic 3-hour talk, Curtis Yarvin discusses: Democracy, his preference for Bernie Sanders, debunking the American Revolution, benevolent dictatorship, ...
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Jacob
Ladies and Gentlemen, the incomparable Mencius Moldbug in a rare live interview by @jmrphy
youtube.com/watch?v=RRQO3V…
Self-recommending
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Network Behavior and Christian Ethics
In designing software for computer networks, the Robustness Principle states "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what...
Is it dangerous to engage seriously with radical right-wing thinkers? | Justin Murphy
If only it were.
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Jacob
Murphy on engaging with right-wing thinkers, rather than playing the game of dissociation and deplatforming
jmrphy.net/blog/2017/03/2…
The fact that he is this based, and also a former antifa, challenged my worldview pic.twitter.com/avw5laOVa8
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How to deal with family during the holidays? Relax and have fun with them | Justin Murphy
Your grandmother is not a bigot if her only ethical failure is that she does not care what people on the internet think about her.
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Jacob
The @jmrphy flavor of revolutionary leftism:
- Humane
- Open minded
- Engagement over purity
- Truth in service to the Good
- Inherits from continental philosophy, catholicism, and the Cynics
- Self-critical
ex. jmrphy.net/post/2016-12-2… pic.twitter.com/MG6Ihv0xeX
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Palladium Podcast 9: Samo Burja On Botswana
This week, Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy interview Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm, on his recent Botswana piece and his thoughts about China's Belt & Road in Africa.
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Jacob
Samo has built himself into a once-in-a-generation political mind. I loved this conversation on the institutional design in Botswana that allows it to outperform it’s African neighbors. Bonus insight into the future of China in Africa
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Report shows dark side of YouTube
In the past three months YouTube has had to remove 58 million videos that were posting hateful or inappropriate content. The company, owned by Google say they've started applying more advanced technology to flag content for review.
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Jacob
Youtube removed 58 million videos last quarter (how many false positives?). What organization has ever had the capacity to comb through hundreds of millions of videos? It is unprecedented
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Chamomile with Patri Friedman
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Jacob
I'm going live with Patri Friedman @patrissimo today on Chamomile TV at 3:50 PST. Topics may include the great bear market of 2018, liberty and free speech, seasteading, cryptoanarchy, monogamy, transhumanism, and the culture wars.
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Time-lock encryption - Gwern.net
How do you encrypt a file such that it can be decrypted after a date, but not before? Use serial computations for proof-of-work using successive squaring, chained hashes, or witness encryption on blockchains.
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Jacob
@Meaningness Gwern wrote up an overview of current approaches and their drawbacks. It seems like something that might be solved in our lifetimes
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Surviving in the Alaskan Wilderness
“It is extremely challenging and some students WILL quit. Expect to suffer.” The marketing materials appealed to me. At the ti...
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Jacob
I wrote up my experience surviving a week in the wilderness on the Alaskan Field Course from the Thomas Coyne Survival School jacobexmachina.blogspot.com/2018/08/alaska… pic.twitter.com/kDBi56rX3S
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Florida candidate for U.S. Senate admits to sacrificing goat, drinking its blood
Florida's U.S. Senate candidate Augustus Sol Invictus is accused of sacrificing a goat and drinking its blood.
Economics 2.0 meets the Fifth Protocol
In the book Accelerando , Charles Stross describes a future world that runs on “Economics 2.0”, an indecipherable economic system used by po...