People are unproductive when they are sad, mentally broken, sexually abused, lonely etc.
Liberal social ideas excel at creating these conditions via a broken mating market, atomization, naive #atheism, etc.
Hence the synergy of human misery between liberalism and leftism.
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Some aspects of naive free-market capitalism also contribute to this
#ToxicModernity situation: cigarettes, gambling, alcohol, drugs, addictive-tech, firms with too much market power, naive globalism etc.3 replies 0 retweets 43 likesShow this thread -
What's the solution? We need to reinvent religion, clubs, social norms and communities in a way that works for the 21st century.
@default_friend 's arranged marriage thing is philosophically right even if the implementation is uncertain right now.5 replies 2 retweets 54 likesShow this thread -
Humans without religion, clubs, social norms and communities are like baremetal hardware with no software on them, and if you add modern leftist ideas like gender equality, feminism and intersectionality they're like computers running a bunch of different viruses and trojans.
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Roko Retweeted Struan
Religion keeps getting reinvented. Look at
#EffectiveAltruism - it's essentially a religion for smart, conscientious, kind people. Woke is a religion for less smart people.https://twitter.com/StruanCurtis/status/1337906989536522243 …Roko added,
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
My minor exposure to effective altruism was hearing Scott Alexander talk about how wonderful it was to supply bail funding for men who have been arrested. That sounds neither smart nor kind and in fact sounds sadistic, short-sighted and evil to me.
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> Scott Alexander talk about how wonderful it was to supply bail funding for men who have been arrested. It's virtue signalling. He's paying to qualify himself as a very virtuous person. Since a lack of virtue can do huge damage, this is an important social function.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Lack of virtue is better than the "virtue" these people practice by sabotaging the effort to stop things like this from happening. Look at the details here - he's been arrested over 100 times.https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/disturbing-video-shows-random-attack-hydrant-head-smash-of-92-year-old-woman-in-manhattan/2466659/ …
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> Lack of virtue is better than the "virtue" these people practice That's true, but it's irrelevant for explaining how the EA phenomenon spreads itself. EA would spread just as well if all the money secretly got burned - as long as nobody knew that that was happening.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
It would serve the same purpose (credentialing people as virtuous).
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Sure and I understand the purpose socially but when you actually contribute to evil and decay you have moral culpability - especially when you show yourself capable of understanding what you're doing.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
I need to write a blog post explaining this so that they can understand it. Please DM me and tell me to stop being lazy about this.
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Rather than warning them, why don't don't you convince them that if funding human population growth beyond the carrying capacity is virtuous, going to dwell amongst the surplus population you're paying for is even more virtuous
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