Wasn’t going to tweet this, but what the hell, why not. Vaguely inspired by latest newsletter and ongoing production testing of actual greatness/liveness (in sense) of Putin by world events.
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Interestingly, I think nobody talking about Trump at all in the current situation is a major puncture event for him. He was birging Putin a little too much and his RDF has collapsed along with Putin's, but far faster. Putin's RDF still seems to work in parts of the world.
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Aside: in visualizing the metaphor of the puffed man, think in terms of a figure made up of individual bubble cells, like bubble wrap/stay-puft marshmallow man, not a single large balloon person.
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"We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it"
I'm genuinely neutral on people who reach for god-tier. I feel no urge to either worship them or actively attempt to puncture them. I mostly just reach for the popcorn and watch, and try to stay out of their way.
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It's a sort of kindness to try and help people identify their right level on the 4 dimensions of godding (there may be more or different ones, these are just my first stab), but once people begin to overreach you kinda have to step back and let events take their course.
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There's a clear "tell" when people try to launch themselves into regimes where overreach risk increases rapidly. A sort of "I'm gonna go for it" launch narrative that's unnecessary when you're in not-overreach zone.
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Overreach risk increases rapidly and unpredictably past your natural point, and I've never yet met anyone who's actually managed to "grow" in a way where they actually shift their natural level. So really, you're kinda gambling your limit is higher than you're at.
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Me, I'm aiming for some modest overreach along the pelf axis to get to a and maybe level up on the prowess front to tell at least one angel-grade story before I die
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Maybe you can just pelfiteer on the "pelf" neologism to become the world's first metapelfinaire?
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