Today is a day taken to honor the fallen. I’ve served, my father has served, and both grandparents served their own countries before then. The history of Memorial day, and of Arlington cemetery, is of interest, but the question I have today is borne of some discussions with my family over this last weekend. Namely – related to nationalism. I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m nearly the lone Trump supporter, and one of three, maybe four, nominal conservatives toany degree in a crowd of feelgood…
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First of all, was listening to the only somewhat recent podcast with Scott Adams, and in the middle, Stefan trots out his common “democrats only want voters”. Adams rightly points out that that is something which at least he personally had not heard, so it sounded like far-fetched mind reading, which Stefan admitted, but then pointed to at least one statement by a politician explicitly calling it out. OK, Once is a fluke, twice is coincidence, so not proof in and of itself, but one could find m…
I’ve mentioned before – that old rule about “once is coincidence” also applies to large systems of any sort. Even if you have thousands of computers running, if three of them develop the same misbehavior, it’s not a fluke, there’s something wrong with the system. A bug, or something else overlooked, but not simply “oh an edge case”. In case you’re wondering, this applies in part to yesterday’s post. Sure, we’ll never get rid of evil, but when you’re talking about orders of magnitude of differen…
How few people need to be truly radical for "just a few of them" to be a systemic issue?
> “Start by being warm, pleasant, & generous w/every person you meet; but if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him; & if he messes w/you, remember to keep messing w/him long after he has forgotten about it”. Silver Rule of Fat Tony [https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/972887563164946432] in N. N. Taleb’s #SkinInTheGame I’ve said it before – socialism is evil [https://thelastredoubt.com/socialism-is-evi/]. Not kidding, then or now. While I’ve respected Dr Peterson…