Samo Burja

@SamoBurja

There has never been an immortal society. Figuring out why. Founder of Bismarck Analysis. Bylines in .

Joined January 2018

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Sep 2019

    This lecture ties the insights of the shorter videos together into a unified framework for evaluating civilization. [Thread] 18/18

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  2. 16 hours ago

    Minoan art is a good way to endear yourself to me San Francisco cafe. – at Stable Cafe

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  3. Feb 1

    Wired is Tired.

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  4. Feb 1

    Academia has very few functional institutions left. Bad faith is very common.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    The difference between """peer review""" and review by one's peers.

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    Presented without comment.

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  7. Jan 31

    They certainly claim to retain the information.

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    Yes, it is yet another genre tied to a cohort, which will die when that cohort does.

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  9. Jan 31

    The average age of avid Young Adult Fiction readers grows at a rate of one year per year.

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  10. Jan 31

    Zack explains how networks of patronage are the force behind political parties and how these rather shape ideologies as well.

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  12. Jan 30

    In my experience ethics aren't an optional add on, rather a vital component to sustaining motivation for any highly skilled endeavor.

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  13. Jan 30

    The role physical distance plays in original thought is underrated.

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    A nice little parable! Relevant to • The concept of mastery, old masters • Striking the target, i.e. understanding the true purpose of an activity • Intellectual dark matter/the challenge of maintaining traditions of knowledge () • connections between skill & virtue

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  15. Jan 28

    There is Roman and Shakespearean science fiction we can read and reflect on.

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  16. Jan 28

    Perhaps an interesting enough story to follow-up all those millennia later ...

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  17. Jan 28

    An idea I've had tonight: The 10,000 year mission. A spacecraft sent to another star on the assumption that it is going to be the last ship there. A message in a bottle as a bet on human progress.

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    Sometimes ppl who struggle in school early on get the gift of realizing that they have to find (& forge) other ways of being valuable whereas some other times ppl who master test-taking in their childhood have to figure that out (& unlearn certain schooling habits) in their 20s

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    Jan 27

    The task of the 2020s, to make up for the atomized 2010s, is to engineer tangible, embodied communities in such a way that takes the full weight and spread of the simulacrum’s pull into account.

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  20. Jan 27

    The flip side: A desire for the end of the world, isn't about the end of the world, it is a desire for a reset in social accounting.

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  21. Jan 27

    Popular fear of the end of the world seems profoundly disconnected from how likely the end of the world is. My best theory: The fear of the end of the world, is the fear of the end of the social world, it is reset of social accounting.

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