things i suspect because I just listened to a history of the reformation i) history is not over and in ways none of us can even imagine sober ii) atheism is probably best seen as a western christian heretical sect (and thats fine)
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vi) ideas matter and everyone seems to have forgotten this today and thats some weak shit vii) the tenor and temperament of individuals and collectives matter and people seem to not believe this today viii) neither (vi) nor (vii) are easily quantified which maybe explains a lot
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ix) some things I would like seeing: a. a rereading of history after we get a functioning science of psychology b. a rereading of history by digging up and dating every corpse in the world and sequencing them and tracking mental phenotype flows c. (b) but with geneology
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x) sciences and technology people are not ready for a. genomics b. a functioning psychology c. ML systems taking advantage of (b)
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xi) looping back to (vi) no one is coming up with new ideas its just rewarmed b-tier ideologies or slovenly unrationalized materialism this is a failure of the ideological class no one is even pitching Good bad ideas
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oh right closing with a poll, related to this tweet https://twitter.com/CIgnitio/status/1260100940956401664?s=19 …
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what is the probability that at least one European great family (Habsburg, Bourbon, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha / Wettin, Romanov, Merovingian, etc) takes control of a sovereign state in their former territory in a substantial, ie non-symbolic, manner before 2100
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RE (iv) - this is true but with the qualification that throughout most of human history (until like the late 19th/early 20th century) we had much better escape modes from tyranny because states and stateless societies coexisted in a state of dynamic equilibrium.
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you were pretty fucked in western Europe for quite a while also russia
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