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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iii) the catholic church died at the council of Trent iv) tyranny is much more common in history than I had usually considered, and much more transient v) important trends often play out tectonically, and are mostly not visible in a year or decade of a person's life
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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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Replying to @eigenrobot
Are we talking dialectical materialism or materialism in the sense of reality?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
The material reality of drawing accents on letters?
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Anyway, no reason to move on from a hodge podge materialist perspective as default, in the sense of what are things made of. As far as dialectical materialism, pretty sure that's not accepted.
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diuretical materialism just taking the piss out of someone
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