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Scott Alexander

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I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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    1. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 29 Mar 2017

      It's more obvious every day that history has suckered the Left into making its last stand on a comically indefensible, over-extended line.

      12 replies 48 retweets 129 likes
    2. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 30 Mar 2017
      Replying to @Outsideness

      You willing to make testable predictions here? Eg %Dems in Congress in 2030, whether 2030 Dem platform contains certain points, anything?

      3 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    3. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 30 Mar 2017
      Replying to @slatestarcodex

      It's a war. Perhaps, in 1942, someone could have predicted the approximate date when Hitler would eat a bullet, but it seems unlikely. ...

      3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 30 Mar 2017
      Replying to @Outsideness

      I think in 1942 a "Hitler will control less territory in 10 years than now" prediction would've been safe. You up for something that level?

      5:18 PM - 30 Mar 2017
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        2. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @slatestarcodex

          Hmmm -- what are the metrics? ...

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        3. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @Outsideness @slatestarcodex

          ... Units of geopolitical fragmentation, censorship-proof cyberspace escalation, MAI deterrence, and eugenic realism / speciation are basic.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @Outsideness @slatestarcodex

          ... Some of that stuff is inherently cryptic. The Bitcoin price might be the best proxy for the recession of the Left. ...

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        5. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @Outsideness @slatestarcodex

          ... How about: Within five years, the total crypto-currency capital stock will have increased by an order of decimal magnitude? ...

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        6. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @Outsideness @slatestarcodex

          ... If not that, then I'm not sure what to count. Not politicians, certainly. The whole point is to marginalize (not accumulate) them.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        7. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @Outsideness

          So do you think a total collapse of the Left is compatible with, say, the Democrats/Labour holding Congress/Parliament?

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        8. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @slatestarcodex

          Conservatives holding said positions is not a secure advance, but only the opportunity for one. Secession dynamic far more important. ...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        9. Outsideness‏ @Outsideness 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @Outsideness @slatestarcodex

          ... Will there be at least one new jurisdiction, fully autonomous (secure), and established on explicit ultra-right (Neocam) principles? ...

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        2. Pinkerton  🐯‏ @grootslang_ 30 Mar 2017
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          Was it? Alan Brooke claimed Stalingrad in 1943 was the turning point of WWII. Before that he was convinced Russia would fall, that the....

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        3. Pinkerton  🐯‏ @grootslang_ 30 Mar 2017
          Replying to @grootslang_ @slatestarcodex @Outsideness

          ....overseas British Empire would collapse, and that the Nazis would invade England.

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