Idiots Scaring Themselves in the Dark - new ribbonfarm by me, on the function of the uncanny
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We seem to be having an unusual period of thematic convergence
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I threw my first punches a year before you though, hah!
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thanks this motivates me to keep slogging through girard
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Worth it? Thiel being a fan was an anti-signal for me. His lecture had a rather cartoonish Ayn Rand+sacrificial religion feel to it
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that sounds awfully orderly like you know how to read it :-P
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I know, it's my secret shame that I'm selectively disorderly.
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Rule 1 of the simulation is you gotta respect the Thiel.
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Like most good investors he has no taste, and simulation is an idea to be judged by taste rather than ROI "secrets" or risk/returns logic 😇
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the thing I got bogged down on was about how his stuff conflicts with my functionalist/hedonic model of ritual
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