i think the greatest irony of posiwid is you do see people using it to basically not think systemically. "posiwid but i assume what the system does instead of looking at what is actually occurring in all of its messy phase space" is often the point of using the phrase
@nunosempere.com as far as the US is concerned, would your answer to this question be different today given new info and developments?
Cautious Hero, off the top of my mind
I am wearing shoes like those right now and I absolutely love them
As an Italian myself I feel pretty skeptical of these results and wonder if there was something off in the methodology or translation. But cool if legit.
That'd be cool, but I've never played eu and I'm still unsure if I want to spend 60€ on a game with that learning curve when my patience for learning new games has plummeted tbh...
Thanks a lot to everyone for the interesting material, by the way!
Busy week ahead for me, but it looks interesting and I'll start checking it all out more thoroughly as soon as I feel a little less overwhelmed :)
if you had to compile a reading list on the challenges of 21st century civ of similar scope, length, digestiblility by rat-adjacents as www.21civ.com BUT with YOUR political slant:
how'd you go abt it?
where'd you start?
who else would you ask?
open question but pinging @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social
I think that:
- attributing stateful success to that one time a continent was wiped out by plagues is extremely simplistic and an indefensible position
- bronze age civs provide weak evidence for what we're discussing
- stateful civs hostile to the powers-that-be have managed to emerge regardless
IMO not great counterpoint if:
• best example(?) of stateless civ you can think of today is a 300k pop 30yo one in Mexico
• others were ~all wiped out by contact with stateful western civ to never re-emerge?
This list gives me little reason for optimism too
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
"I love the ambition but of countless societies that emerged ALL? those that ever amounted to anything powerfully self-preserving were stateful
if you can't very convincingly point to decisive new factors that should shift my reference class, the base rates look awful and failures awfully costly"
Wait why Italian?
being an old "millennial" is gonna sound so much more charismatic than being an old "boomer", like some kind of elder vampire caste
i hope we get to keep our moniker by the time the young start blaming everything wrong with the world on us, cause we won the lottery with that one it goes hard
im just being nitpicky cause i grew up in boloGNa and am a boloGNese myself (gn pronounced like spanish ñ btw)... but honestly it would have been funnier if you had screwed up genovese too
> bolongese
ugh lol
> whyd i say bolongese,
right? :)
> its not bolongese
right??? :D
> its genovese
AAAAAAAAAAA
We'll be dropping a podcast with Ivan Vendrov on recommender systems later today
I took SNRIs for a total of 2 weeks in 2018 and won permanent side effects too 🎊
The only alcoholic drinks that don't taste godawful, as far as I'm concerned, are the handful that successfully mask the alcohol's flavor with sweetness. Like I've recently found this wine that tastes great, almost like cherry or strawberry juice.
I don't mind the feeling of tipsiness though.
it's been a while since I last used this phrasing, but it seemed to me that asking Claude for an "honest assessment" of an idea usually dialed down the sycophancy quite a lot and produced pretty good results
Here are the rules: 1. Post the title of your favorite textbook on a given subject. 2. You must have read at least two other textbooks on that same subject. 3. You must briefly name the other books you've read on the subject and explain why you think your chosen textbook is superior to them. Rules #2 and #3 are to protect against recommending a bad book that only seems impressive because it's the only book you've read on the subject. Once, a popular author on Less Wrong recommended Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy to me, but when I noted that it was more polemical and inaccurate than the other major histories of philosophy, he admitted he hadn't really done much other reading in the field, and only liked the book because it was exciting.
Could we try to compile another list of The Best Textbooks On Every Subject through bluesky, like this LW post attempted to?
What could be possible ways to set this up to work well on bsky?
(I think the rules in the picture, for starters, make sense)
www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXC...
good post
also if i think about it, there have been at least 3 changes that increased my baseline happiness quite a bit in recent years
but still, some things did get hedonic treadmill'd, and that kinda sucks
are they ever gonna patch the hedonic treadmill? that's one seriously bullshit mechanic
who's working on this
my social intelligence is... unconventional. a bold artistic choice. avant-garde
I'd personally go with something like bjj for martial arts
strikes to the head don't seem worth it
And in unrelated research/browsing, another song about the graphene light sails of arxiv.org/abs/1506.09214 suno.com/song/0d174ab...
Global Risks Weekly Roundup #33/2025
slightly diminish a band:
president crimson
if you looked at these graphs you'd maybe guess that, here in italy, the anti-inequality animosity from the left on our social media would differ substantially from that of the US
or that they'd blame unfettered capitalism much less for our country's ills
if so, you'd be wrong on both counts
italians suck in many ways and americans rock in many others
but one thing that sucks about US culture as I perceive it is just how many seem to find certain kinds of... sadism? entertaining, imo
or maybe that's just my impression, idk
