what if the important thing about blowing up the death star wasn't the military act of blowing up the death star, but triggering a preference cascade. an exploded death star is an act of COMMUNICATION signalling "there are other rebels - competent ones - out there"https://twitter.com/padrebrendon/status/1212857569406046213 …
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2/ I feel like I've said this before.
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3/ hmm, if twitter search is to be believed (narrator: it isn't), maybe not https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Amorlockp%20%20preference%20cascade&src=typed_query …
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4/ the 2010s were the decade when Instapundit, Scott Alexander, and Moldbug rewired my brain
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5/ ok, new theory what if the death star was actually blown up with controlled demolition and it was all an op What we used to call Star Wars and now call "episode 4" (shudder) is all faked
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That exhaust port was only 2 meters - it was an impossible shot plus the torpedo made a ninety degree turn; magic photon torpedo theory.
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