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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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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but he's a worthy person-on-your-shoulder (as pmarca uses him)... a subtle variation of evil twin--tasteless worthy adversary perhaps?
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I'm not an investor, so that makes him baseline a bit boring to me. Funny how wildly interestingness rankings shuffle when you take $ out
actually thought a lot about this re: UBI/gamification after watching this youtube.com/watch?v=DLwskD years ago--global interestingness ranking
in some small (large) way i am actually trying to win that game that doesn't yet exist--skate to where the puck is going if you will :)
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the gamification of life may be a large factor of the utopian timeline :) that may well turn out sadly dystopic due to 42


