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Stephen Pimentel

11 months

The Disclosure of Hermes The Circe episode in the Odyssey points to the root of Greek culture and philosophy. A 🧵 on my essay for @AntigoneJournal .

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UFO sightings are an Anglo-American phenomenon.

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If you don’t understand this chart, keep staring at it until you do.

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In the United States, about 40,000 people were lobotomized, with the procedure reaching its peak of popularity in 1949. Crazy how there can fads for radical surgical procedures that we later view as unneeded and harmful.

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Much of modern life.

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“Degrowth” is a euphemism for poverty.

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@PopBase Taylor Swift is less insightful than ChatGPT.

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Listened to Lex Fridman interviewing John Mearsheimer. The chief thing it convinced me of is that Fridman is a dimwit. Constantly repeating platitudes. Highly brainwormed.

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Winston Churchill's chief strategic goal was the defense of the British Empire. If one looks at the British Empire in 1910, when Churchill was 36, and compares it to the UK at the time of his death in 1965, it is unambiguously clear that he failed in this goal.

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The impulse behind most AI “safety:”

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Students at Harvard now struggle to read The Scarlet Letter, a novel that was once one of those most commonly taught in high schools.

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@newrepublic “We couldn’t catch Rufo committing plagiarism or anything actually bad, so we’ll shit on him for getting his master’s from Harvard Extension School, even though the latter is, you know, actually run by Harvard.”

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The operational definition of “fascist” is “whatever Western intellectuals don’t like.” This is an iron law, and there is no Indian exception.

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The Greeks had a word, ἀπειροκαλία, literally “inexperience with beauty.” It’s usually translated “want of taste,” “tastelessness,” or “shamelessness.” Andrew Tate is an extreme example of this vice. BAP is the opposite.

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@FischerKing64 There is a consistent lefty logic: • Small business owner → privileged rich guy → bad • Homeless → marginalized poor dear → good The fact that the lefty may himself be rich doesn't matter: voting for the stupid policies absolves him of guilt for that.

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Attacking imaginary fascism has been the dominant motif of the West since 1945.

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We had two shots at breaking out of the Great Stagnation: nuclear power and AI. Climate activists effectively killed nuclear power (and our best hope of slowing climate change). Now a strangely similar ideology is trying to kill AI.

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VDARE has been shut down by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Key issue was their refusal to comply with subpoenas for emails that would have doxxed anon contributors. Important lesson here for anons and opsec when contributing to any publication, even good guys.

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Their “capacities are different,” says the Harvard Dean and English professor, resorting to pathetic euphemism. She cannot bring herself to say the obvious: “They can’t read.”

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The very opposite is true: current textbooks are mostly crap, and increasingly so. Read old books, the older the better, going back to Homer.

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It's time to say it again: There is no need to read the classics because the textbook treatments of their ideas are perfectly sufficient. Have you ever met a physicist who said that you should read Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica?

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Singapore was far from inevitable in 1965. It was a choice, followed by a great deal of hard work. The same with El Salvador today. The same, potentially, for many nations.

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“Democracy means we win, you lose. Simple as. All we need to do is say the magic words ‘far right.’”

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🇩🇪Germany is debating whether to ban the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the party surges to 21 per cent in the polls, amid warnings from intelligence officials that its members are becoming increasingly extreme

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Ha ha “no one knows why” good one

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@FischerKing64 The difference is that historic empires did it in their provinces, not in their homelands. Modern Western elites do it in their homelands — because they think of them as provinces.

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This is rationalism in a nutshell: an autistic focus on the first-order consequences of one’s mental model (which one mistakenly deems clever), combined with an autistic inability to observe and weigh second-order consequences.

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I regret to inform you that David Frum is still a despicable person.

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@nypost Don’t tell us how he felt. Tell us what he did. Nothing? Then I don’t care how he felt.

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Orson Welles nailed it. Many such cases.

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As Bukele has shown, this is an easy problem to solve, if one wants to. U.S. elites don’t want to.

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Stephen Pimentel

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@pmarca It’s almost as if the litigation was a scam.

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Pro-tip: Only ask for a *finite* amount of tape.

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“Free minds are the only company worth having.” — @nealstephenson , quoted by @naval

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Many goods undergo deflation rather than inflation. The goods most subject to inflation (education, healthcare, housing) are those that receive the most federal subsidies.

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Watching Home Alone and realized pizza has escaped inflation. 10 pizzas at $12 a pop—I think pizza prices may have actually gone down.

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@jmrphy The premise that anything material to the case might turn on whether a tweet by a THIRD PARTY (whom one of the first parties happened to follow) is “antisemitic” is amazing.

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@martyrmade Exactly right. The speed with which they reached for the “Nazi apologist” slander based on no more than a measured critique of Churchill betrays the weakness of their thought.

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@omriceren lol dude just now figuring out that “safety” was about power, not safety lol

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@eshear It's not important what I believe. Why the Harvard dean of undergraduates, who is also an English professor, would report in print that her students cannot read The Scarlet Letter, even at a sentence level, is a more interesting question.

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@GadSaad Very revealing. American evangelicals in red states are among the strongest supports of Israel, stronger than many liberal Jews, and yet Gad nevertheless targets them. He can't let go of the imaginary coalition in his head.

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“Conspiracies”

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The Apple Lisa operating system (1984) was written in Pascal. It was an important milestone in Graphical User Interfaces and is now available as open source.

Pioneering Apple Lisa goes “open source” thanks to Computer History Museum

Lisa OS 3.1’s 1984 source Pascal code now available under a non-commercial license.

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@tom_peters “More women in charge” in bio

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It’s working precisely as one should expect. If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it. If your expectations are different, that’s a you problem.

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@EllaTravelsLove This is not about an individual Harvard president; it’s about the institution itself. And it’s not about antisemitism; it’s about the progressive ideology of regime elites.

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@Steve_Sailer What ludicrous scapegoating. Kotlowitz never explains what “resources” whites “used up.” He just strains to blame social dysfunction on those no longer there.

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@paulg I don't feel bound by any taboo on that. I'd be happy to say it if I thought it were true. But I don't think it's true. At some emotional level, many find it deeply unsatisfactory to believe that Kennedy was killed by a loner, but I think it's actually the case.

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@60Minutes The Russians have magic weapons that they bring out in our election years.

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@FischerKing64 Pervasive phenomenon in American culture. Middle class people want to “feel like” they’re being charitable, even when the assistance is visibly fake. And you’re a “bad person” if you point out the obvious way in which it’s fake.

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@moveincircles It is true of most social pathologies that, on an individual level, one can in principle “just not do that.” This observation does not contradict the fact that there are nevertheless many social pathologies.

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Those who argue otherwise based on Britain’s “victory” in the two world wars are deceived by the surface of events.

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2 years

@HKaaman "Warriors complain about bullshit jobs."

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@catehall Because China literally used capitalism to achieve its growth. See Deng Xiaoping’s economic policies.

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@burkov It’s even worse than that. The underlying model of Gemini is actually quite good. Google then deliberately skewed its output with prompt injection, as if executing an attack on themselves.

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@rickperlstein Which part is evil? The part where people who really have committed plagiarism face consequences? If Ruffo agreed that white males who commit plagiarism should also face consequences –– which he does –– is it still evil?

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@FischerKing64 When female politicians keep inviting in sexually aggressive, foreign young men and calling it an ‘opportunity,’ it makes you think — maybe there’s something else going on here.

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Reminder that Google manually censors its search algorithm.

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The book “Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy” by @costin_eats has been a bestseller on Amazon. That’s remarkable for a lengthy work on the ancient origins of political philosophy. A 🧵 on my review essay for @mansworldmag_ .

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@hansaFL I don’t mind hosts being restrained. I mind when they repeatedly say dumb things.

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@kaschuta Having 4 kids, I’d never downplay how stressful babies can be. The simple truth is that divorce makes all that worse, not better.

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@AuronMacintyre The civil rights movement is a third.

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4 years

Reddit warnings have changed into banning. For upvoting.

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5 years

Remember the journalists from Vox and elsewhere dumping on @balajis and others in tech concerned about coronavirus? Jokes about "handshakes?" Because, of course, journalists know that folks in tech are just self-involved idiots? Yeah, those journalists were full of shit.

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College tuition and medical fees are so high in the U.S. because, by government policy, supply is restricted and demand is subsidized. Period. The solution is to stop doing that. The solution is NOT to do it even more.

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Paul Krugman now uses the phrase “white woman” as an insult.

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What do you mean "we", white woman? Seriously, "America" hasn't given up on fighting Covid-19; Cuomo's NY, Murphy's NJ, Whitmer's MI haven't given up. It's *Republicans* who have given up.

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Sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines serves a very simple purpose: it removes from Germany the possibility of abandoning the sanctions against Russia and turning the pipelines back on, as many German businesses were beginning to lobby for.

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@FischerKing64 Traitor = bad word to apply to Schmittian enemy. Like racist. Nothing more.

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The obsession with secondary literature is one of the marks of the degeneracy of academia.

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No one born after 1972 has been alive at a time when there was a man on the moon.

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@davidfrum LOL you just literally made that up. That’s not even what your own side was saying before the Harris campaign decided on that messaging.

The unexpected benefits of being weird

I went in search of outsiders who were thriving in communities where acceptance is hard to come by. It turns out, we might all learn from their approach to life.

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Some wish to live in poverty. That’s not how they narrate their desire; they use other words, full of resentment and projection. But the truth is that they wish to live in poverty.

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BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo vehicle is intentionally set on fire in Chinatown, according to SF Fire. Firefighters said they got reports around 10 people were involved. Waymo said “a crowd surrounded and vandalized the vehicle, breaking the window and throwing a firework …

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@jmrphy The increase in female political power and the decline in male testosterone may be causally linked.

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Reading slowly, you can read this entire thread in a few minutes. It contains a greater depth of insight than do most books on business, financial planning, and personal development.

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How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

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@FischerKing64 “Don’t disturb my faith in credentialism.”

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@GadSaad Gad's exact words: “By the way, your name is Roscoe Jethroe, you're from Arkansas.” But he assures us, he wasn't trying to negatively stereotype Americans. Rather, “my Roscoe tweet was in reference to an average American in the Midwest who hates Israel for antisemitic reasons.”

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Hospitals in Germany are refusing to treat Russians and Belarusians. These are persons who, by the very fact of residing in Germany, are unlikely to be supporters of the invasion. How long until internment camps are set up, as the U.S. did for Japanese Americans during WWII?

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@amasad The judge looked only at the outcome ex post, not the risk ex ante. This is the mental failure-mode of those who don't understand entrepreneurship.

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"No one could have known" is the ass-covering evasion of "Not only did we not listen to the people who began raising the alarm in January, but we made fun of them."

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Seeing a lot of “no one could have known” about covid19. We saw it happening in January. Mass deaths in China, then deaths in many other countries in early February. We knew it was in the US by end of Jan. While details and data were hazy, we had a global pandemic by Feb1.

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Rod Dreher, in his bid to become the next David French, denounces Charles Haywood for failing to denounce wrongthink, while doxxing Haywood's (nonpolitical) business. Despicable.

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@benlandautaylor Yes, radiocarbon dating is calibrated by tree rings, because the latter provide integer values that can literally be counted. This requires finding fossilized trees that span many periods.

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Francis Fukuyama does not know the meaning of “deontological.” It come from δέον, “duty.” It has nothing to do with “not being linked to ontology.”

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@mcuban @elonmusk Safetyism (the preoccupation with subjective perceptions of safety) ruins everything. Twitter already has simple features for blocking and muting. You don't have the hear from anyone you don't want to. But no, that's not enough. People must be banned so you can "feel safe."

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@DemetersP This the cultural region in which science fiction has had the greatest penetration. It would not surprise me if in other regions you get as high a frequency of different but analogous phenomena.

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The media demonstrably do not “speak truth to power.” They slavishly follow favored power, often centered in bureaucracies (e.g., WHO, CDC, FDA), while attacking perceived threats to their social status (e.g., tech).

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@paulg Have you seen any credible evidence of such influence on the “far right,” or are you simply repeating a journalistic trope, as you would never do with tech, with Gell-Mann amnesia?

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At some deep psychological level, Western elites yearn for stagnation. Oh, they talk about “survival” with apocalyptic rhetoric. But it’s about stagnation.

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@restoreorderusa Indulging in the "punch a Nazi" meme is telling on oneself. It is straightforwardly a leftist declaration of a friend/enemy demarcation. It is quite obvious that the target is not Nazis, who barely exist. The target is always something else, which is being falsely labeled Nazi.

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Have there been Randomized Control Trials showing that FDA regulation is a net benefit? No? Then in the idiom of public health officials, "there is no evidence that" FDA regulation is a net benefit.

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@FischerKing64 Great description of how business corruption is synergistic with DEI ideology.

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The whole glorious thing: Category Theory for Programmers by @BartoszMilewski

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Centralized "big science" communities more likely to generate non-replicable results

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I wrote a short piece for @palladiummag on one aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic: Effective Pandemic Response is Not About Preparation

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@naval This is a huge entrepreneurial opportunity: offering credible, secure credentialing of skills, knowledge, and capabilities, unbundled from how they were acquired.

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@bronzeagemantis Yes, current “elites” in power are strikingly incompetent. Example: Claudine Gay as president of Harvard is not an anomaly; she is quite representative.

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The Little Typer By Daniel P. Friedman and David Thrane Christiansen Foreword by Robert Harper Afterword by Conor McBride An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time.

The Little Typer

An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time.A program's type describes its behavior. Dependent types are...

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The sophon lock imposed by the FDA must end. Before the pandemic, it greatly slowed advances in medicine. Now, it is costing lives.

WSJ News Exclusive | Trump Sought to Expand Virus Drug Tests Over FDA Objections

The White House considered issuing an executive order greatly expanding the use of investigational drugs against the new coronavirus, but was met with objections from FDA scientists who warned it...

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Why #Golang was designed to suck.

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Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ (B123) – Heraclitus Always difficult to translate Heraclitus, but: "Nature likes to remain encrypted."

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Musk fired 80% of Twitter employees, and the app still functions. What percentage could be fired at the average non-tech company? The average health insurance company? The average university?

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@FischerKing64 Great example of why sentimental humanitarianism is actively evil. At the end of Wormtongue’s smooth words, there is a knife in your belly.

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