Over on Gab, a recent post [https://gab.ai/judgedread/posts/1057976] by Judge Dread @judgedread encapsulated a point I know I’ve made in the past: > Cities breed liberalism because cities are the only place where you can survive with absolutely no contact with the realities of the natural world, and liberalism is above all else a denial of nature. #Science [https://gab.ai/hash/Science] What I find funny is that it’s liberals who insist on passing on trite stories about how helping a butterfly…
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Eric Raymond a while back published some observations on strategies to win games, titled A secret of game-fu [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4699]. > I have a rule: when in doubt, play to maximize the breadth of your option tree. Actually, you should often choose option-maximizing moves over moves with a slightly higher immediate payoff, especially early in the game and most especially if the effect of investing in options is cumulative. This rule has many consequences. In pick-up-and-carry games,…