a fair amount of my googling consists of verifying that my offhand references to abstruse concepts can in fact be readily tracked down to a decent long-form treatment of them
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Replying to @chaosprime
Knowing you do this, there are some (english) phrases, words, and expressions that I've encountered and was unable to decipher despite considerable effort. You might be my only hope with them.
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Replying to @mvhElmore @chaosprime
Take this jewel of an image for example. 3rd row, last column. What is that? Almost all of the rest I understand.pic.twitter.com/tHPRz3BEJr
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oh, K-selective refers to r and K reproductive strategies, K-strategist organisms have few young with high investment so the idea is driving further in that direction, Exitism refers to Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, basically what you have there is ubermensch splinter enclaves
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ah right there's a v- on the Exitism, not super sure what that means but it might be "virtual", in which case the Exit would involve separating from the broader society while still being immersed in it like the social clades in The Diamond Age
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