Nick Tarleton

@nicktarleton

Hyperverbal anti-hypocrite.

San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2010

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    modernity has forgotten that people even have a system 3

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    "This is bad because" = OK. "Don't disagree that this is bad" = not OK. Yes, you can go meta on my assertions here.

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  3. 4 Aug 2014

    Does low group morale being a thing make evolutionary sense?

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  4. 30 Jul 2014
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    ("*Where* our wishes cohere rather than interfere", i.e., that need not be everywhere.)

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  5. 30 Jul 2014
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    E.g., lots of value convergence (under *what* notion of extrapolation, anyway?) isn't actually an assumption of CEV.

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  6. 30 Jul 2014

    Deleted last tweets @asilentsky because I don't want to promote (in myself or others) argument about details over careful thought about CEV.

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    9 Jul 2014
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    When the facts change, I curse God, pray for death and rend my garments. What do you do?

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    (The "maybe not worth keeping" point seems to have drifted out of the Overton window, though.)

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    On the other hand, maybe they are. For most of the important causes, allies don't grow on trees.

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    If (nontrivial assumption) some piece of writing is genuinely well-meaning and rational, those turned away by it may not be worth keeping.

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    Government is bad because people chafe against authority because I've been telling people that government is bad.

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    6 Jul 2014

    "runner" "writer" "nice guy" "Good person"

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    6 Jul 2014
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    that's true but purchased identities like "goth" and "steampunk" seem safer than many free alternatives

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  15. 3 Jul 2014
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    Probably a large extent in explicitly authoritarian regimes, but the NSA might not want to think of itself that way.

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  16. 3 Jul 2014
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    Unsure to what extent mass surveillance itself is about these things / to what extent this is acknowledged by surveillers.

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  17. 3 Jul 2014
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    *No one* acknowledges this, AFAIK. If they did, the discourse could be much better.

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  18. 3 Jul 2014

    Worry about mass surveillance is (very often) about social monitoring and conformity, not surveillance.

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    22 Jun 2014

    Evolutionary theory is better than economics because it doesn't start by assuming away force and fraud.

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    29 Jun 2014

    #1: Checking your phone after someone else pulls out their phone is the yawn of our generation.

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