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Post by awild »

baxuz wrote: post #280

I have to say that the guy raised a huge red flag for me already in the first paragraph: "I hit the gym, pursued the most interesting and important ideas I could find, and started looking for a wife." Ho boy, I'm getting some Christian fundamentalist vibes with that sentence formulation. Like, a mix of a holy mission, an objectifying checkbox and a "time to get a wife to generate progeny". So I continued reading: "Th…

I mean the site is funded by Thiel, himself raised evangelical (though claiming to have moved beyond it)

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Post by burntoutfire »

chii wrote: post #156
wyager wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fossil records strongly suggest that life may have been a lot worse and less bountiful for early agriculturalists than contemporary non-agriculturalists.

Then where did the non-agriculturalists went? They either got killed by the surplus capacity of the agriculturalists, or joined them - both is rooted in the expanded capacity for food creation, and thus, technological creation.

It's quite possible that the worse solution won over the better one - i.e. agrarian societies, while having a lower standard of living, were much better at centralizing power/money and thus funding an army that would slowly stamp out the hunters-gatherers (or the nomadic shepherd societies later on).

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

meheleventyone wrote: post #312
samvher wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is it reminds of Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged, but that’s just based on what I’ve picked up from documentaries (I haven’t read this book or anything else by her).

Yeah I went and checked out the authors Twitter after reading the article and there was a tweet praising Atlas Shrugged very near the top which was amazingly on-brand I thought after reading the article. Having actually read the book when I was going through an ill-thought out libertarian phase I don't understand how anyone capable of engaging writing themselves can think it's anything other than turgid dross. Feels…

I wasn't thinking about Ayn Rand (although her presence is no surprise at all). Lets just say that some of the rhetoric must have sounded better in the original German. e.g. "Übermensch" is a much more evocative word than "overman".

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Post by BronSteeDiam »

baxuz wrote: post #280

I have to say that the guy raised a huge red flag for me already in the first paragraph: "I hit the gym, pursued the most interesting and important ideas I could find, and started looking for a wife." Ho boy, I'm getting some Christian fundamentalist vibes with that sentence formulation. Like, a mix of a holy mission, an objectifying checkbox and a "time to get a wife to generate progeny". So I continued reading: "Th…

“I have to say that the guy raised a huge red flag for me already in the first paragraph: ‘I hit the gym, pursued the most interesting and important ideas I could find, and started looking for a wife.’ “

A healthy body, a healthy mind, and a healthy relationship are not red flags.

The guys at Palladium talk about religion as a social technology. People stuck in the “new atheism” phase will find this hard to follow.

Whether a belief is false or true is often completely irrelevant. Even if the Gods are "imaginary", their impact is most definitely real.

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Post by taurath »

spcebar wrote: post #137
taurath wrote: post #58

Letting the fields go fallow to allow for rejuvenation rings like a very apt allegory to me. Breaking routines, finding out who you are outside of work is actually one of the most luxurious things one can do. It’s a great time for healing. But most can’t afford to do this at their lifestyle level. There’s lots of cognitive dissonance over what makes our lives rich in the tech world. However there also a lot in the po…

I think this is the most cogent take on the essay I've read. I wonder where the middle ground exists between letting the field go fallow and feeding your family is. If you quit your job and then need to pay an unexpected medical bill— or decide to have kids and realize you have no savings— I wonder if one might rethink the spiritual fulfillment they found in unemployment. But on the other hand, if you spend your enti…

Covid has opened a lot of eyes. When mortality is on the line in a job people start to think hey what does this really mean. Hoping the current and upcoming generations will make choices towards a better future.

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Post by jaltekruse »

themacguffinman wrote: post #175

"If you lose everything you own, you generally still have your network and skills" I get the general call to action that those who have excess resources should leverage that to take big risks, but this really undersells the possible consequences of losing everything you own. No, you don't always keep your network and skills. Sometimes, you lose everything. You lose friends from fallout or you belatedly realize that y…

For those that read the note the blog is gone but I searched HN for the author and found the discussion the day this was posted.

He did end up making it because people called the police.

This isn't to undercut the message of this comment, it is clear from the blog that Dennis was very close to dying because of the financial situation he was in and how hopeless it made him feel. I just had to know what happened after reading the note.

https://archive.fo/U4X6S

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Post by meheleventyone »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #323
meheleventyone wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I went and checked out the authors Twitter after reading the article and there was a tweet praising Atlas Shrugged very near the top which was amazingly on-brand I thought after reading the article. Having actually read the book when I was going through an ill-thought out libertarian phase I don't understand how anyone capable of engaging writing themselves can think it's anything other than turgid dross. Feels…

I wasn't thinking about Ayn Rand (although her presence is no surprise at all). Lets just say that some of the rhetoric must have sounded better in the original German. e.g. "Übermensch" is a much more evocative word than "overman".

I was waiting for the blood and soil stuff but maybe that’s the next issue. I had thought the dork enlightenment stuff had died a death but apparently not.

Re: Quit Your Job

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

meheleventyone wrote: post #327
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't thinking about Ayn Rand (although her presence is no surprise at all). Lets just say that some of the rhetoric must have sounded better in the original German. e.g. "Übermensch" is a much more evocative word than "overman".

I was waiting for the blood and soil stuff but maybe that’s the next issue. I had thought the dork enlightenment stuff had died a death but apparently not.

> I had thought the dork enlightenment stuff had died a death

Gotta put out the rich backer's message to where the audience is receptive. And phrase it to please them (i.e. sound thoughtful)

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Post by pm90 »

meheleventyone wrote: post #312
samvher wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is it reminds of Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged, but that’s just based on what I’ve picked up from documentaries (I haven’t read this book or anything else by her).

Yeah I went and checked out the authors Twitter after reading the article and there was a tweet praising Atlas Shrugged very near the top which was amazingly on-brand I thought after reading the article. Having actually read the book when I was going through an ill-thought out libertarian phase I don't understand how anyone capable of engaging writing themselves can think it's anything other than turgid dross. Feels…

It’s a shibboleth at this point into the club of the ultra selfish.

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Post by goodpoint »

baxuz wrote: post #280

I have to say that the guy raised a huge red flag for me already in the first paragraph: "I hit the gym, pursued the most interesting and important ideas I could find, and started looking for a wife." Ho boy, I'm getting some Christian fundamentalist vibes with that sentence formulation. Like, a mix of a holy mission, an objectifying checkbox and a "time to get a wife to generate progeny". So I continued reading: "Th…

When someone thinks they are on a god-given mission it's often a red flag:

> Her friend, who was into prophecy

> it helps to have Providence on your side.

Also:

> court her properly

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