NaggingGranpa

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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
I blame Oedipus.
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Moldbug allegedly acquired enough loot during the dot-com bubble to afford spending 7 years at home reading something like 1 book per day. That could be 2500 books in total. History grad students have to TA. They have to produce research. I
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Yet, it was the horrible, horrible Europe that Moldbug mythologizes and romanticizes that made virtually all advances in science and technology until a few decades ago. Ancient Greece produced mechanical computers. Only recently did the g
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Harmful to whom?
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
You don't need to understand intelligence that well to change the world. A little predictive power can go very far. In the end, it's a bit like playing roulette. A small edge and many bets will make you rich. > I see no inheren
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Ignorant? He probably read more old books than you -- which does not mean he understood much. He spent 7 years of early retirement burning his dot-com loot on Amazon.
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
You give the CIA too much credit. Much of the armed forces and the civilian populace hated Allende and his policies. Pinochet was an opportunist who jumped on the bandwagon when it was already in motion. The CIA had it easy. In South Vietna
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Once the full implications of evolutionary biology are grasped, eugenics will inevitably become part of the religion of the future, or of whatever complex of sentiments may in the future take the place of organized religion. It is not mere
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
It's well-known that the Nazis imported eugenics from Yale and Oxbridge. And eugenics was publicly defended by people all over the political spectrum until 1939. After 1945, it went underground. It never went away. Moldbug can preach h
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Mythmaking and mythbusting do not have to be mutually exclusive. If one can recognize the former, the whole can be edifying.
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
> his understanding of the material is well below that of a first-year history student Met plenty of history grad students in grad school. Well-read but intellectually very limited, and very herd-minded. But, then, I did not go to an Ivy
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
The cold leftovers can still be highly nutritious to those raised on processed, mythologized, state-endorsed pseudo-history.
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Patrilineally, Yarvin is Jewish.
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by NaggingGranpa 7y ago
Don't be thick. A handful of oligarchs seizing all the wealth created by Soviet "slave" labor and sharing very little did destroy Ukraine long before the loonies in Lviv decided to overthrow the shameless crook from the Donba