nico λ
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nico λ
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The hardest, recurring psychological task of my life has been learning to accept the absurdity of existence, to see ambition and achievement for the false gods they are, and to understand, truly understand, how one can flourish in what looks, from the outside, like mediocrity.
Awais Aftab (@awaisaftab)
But this is self-refuting. “If ‘good’ means only the local ideology,” Lewis continued, “how can those who invent the local ideology be guided by any idea of good themselves? The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.”
Will to Power - Claremont Review of Books
- When Trevor Phillips, the old Blair-era ethnic-policy guru, asserted that “the key aim of policy should not be zero immigration but orderly flow,” he was clearly stuck in the world of a generation ago, when opposition to immigration meant complaining about litter in ethnic neighborhoods—not today’s countrywide sense that that older generation
Land's End - Claremont Review of Books
Replacing technology with household help is not a route to higher productivity. It seems more like a route out of the First World and into the Third.
Land's End - Claremont Review of Books
Men made of paper! It all comes from flunkeyism of thought. There's hatred in it, too. They'd be the first to be terribly unhappy if Russia could be suddenly reformed, even to suit their own ideas, and became extraordinarily prosperous and happy. They'd have no one to hate then, no one to curse, nothing to find fault with. There is nothing in it... See more
Demons
And you know it all comes from that same half-bakedness, that sentimentality. They are fascinated, not by realism, but by the emotional ideal side of socialism, by the religious note in it, so to say, by the poetry of it... second-hand, of course.
Demons
We have a problem here, folks. The word “intelligence” is a semantic catastrophe. Whenever doomers use this word, I have no idea what they’re talking about. I often don’t know if they’re talking about a real thing at all. And when they say things like, “AIs are approaching human-level intelligence,” I start to bang my head against the table. What... See more
AI Doomerism Is Bullshit
“It’s where cultural identity and cheap viral consumerism intersect,” D. Andrew Price, head of content at Memes Media Group, said of how Mr. Kirk’s T-shirt has proliferated in recent days.
Susana Tosca, a scholar of internet culture at the University of Southern Denmark, said, “Online culture thrives on templates that can be endlessly remixed and... See more
Susana Tosca, a scholar of internet culture at the University of Southern Denmark, said, “Online culture thrives on templates that can be endlessly remixed and... See more
‘Freedom’ Shirt Becomes a Meme and an Instant Commodity
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