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no pressure, but any thoughts on the palladium crowd's great founder theory stuff? They also have this Thiel/Strauss idea that most good socioeconomic niches and effective ways of operating with influential people are kind of hidden.
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I like parts of model (especially the live player/dead player model) but overall I am definitely an anti-Straussian and have a default hostility to all things Thiel, so I tend to stay away from anything within 2 degrees of Thielverse core institutionally.
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Makes sense, I also found that helpful (To be clear, the Thiel/Strauss comparison is mine, not his! they just emphasize that you might have to be kind of clever to fight your way to an effective understanding of the world) Many thanks for your thoughts 😎
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It's interesting to me you might see the world as legible, at least on some relevant axes also, institutions as civilization-builders seems a bit different from the Great Weirding future - but not contradictory to it, anything pro-economic growth is pro-mansion 😉
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There are significant differences in my thinking from Strauss-Girad strand as well. Notably my anthropology is different and I don't think mimesis is basis of human desire or rivalry. I also denounce the noble lie.
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