New EA cause area: you can tweak the organizer tissues & signaling gradients of each fetus to make it develop two heads; that’s 2X the qualia per birth, & 2X the brainpower! Plus they’ll be viscerally socialized into cooperative beliefs & behaviors, in ways that likely generalize

Most things can be thought of as gaming, & vice-versa: eg are your relationships about going on dates, or are your dates about finding relationships; are your sensations mere instruments for aligning you with desired conditions—or vice-versa? Sensation-fetishism *is* childish imo

For more than a year following the vax, Covidianism persisted: half the country still believed in masking (presumably forever, if even the vax didn’t mean they could stop). But then the new current thing—Ukraine—gave them permission to stop. Trump’s daily news will crowd out woke

Anglophone countries all have the highest public interest rates in the developed world & the most dysfunctional homebuilding, but we vary wildly in how much our social insurance programs drag us down. We also all face particularly extreme immigration & wokeness but varied growth.

Chicago PD is ~80% male, & their union’s pro-Trump; Chicago prosecutors are ~65% female, & their leadership is always left-wing—eg DA Eileen Burke helped end cash bail & institute non-criminal penalties for common thug-with-gun offenses; Chicago judges are ~50% female & ~100% Dem

The differences in how genius is represented & valorized in the original Willy Wonka movie (1971) & the 2023 remake are indicative of longhousificafion. Movie studios saying “we wish we could wall you Gloops off or drown you in slop so we can focus on great work” vs “yay 4 slop!”

Ag developed into states where it was *relatively appropriable,* not *relatively productive.* Cereals are much easier to see, steal, tax, & store (high trust, property rights); tubers grow quickly & covertly at random times & spoil fast. Bantu farmed tubers—R-selected crops & man

Thus why R-selecteds love bling & beef. This thymotic impulse is good (cf the last 500+ years of dynamic military competition in Europe vs of disordered Confucian despotism in SE Asia); but without scaleable coordination—atomization, fungibility—it’s petty x.com/CEBKCEBKCEBK/s…

R-selected civs can’t reliably grow seed-corn or starter-cattle (origins of words for “interest”) without eating it. So their “moneys” are stuck in the navel-gazing “monkey” stage: “look at muh chain & muh gang,” not “look at the fruits of my chain gang!” x.com/CEBKCEBKCEBK/s…

& the 2005 one presents genius as a mere trauma response to mere temptation: Wonka’s mean dentist dad kept him from sweets as a kid so he got overly addicted & ran away as a teen, but also that’s good bc genius—but also *Charlie* teaches *him* the lesson (kumbaya w/ dad > genius)

Algeria ethnically cleansed one million French residents, who in some cases had lived there for centuries, in the course of three months. The UK is absolutely capable of expelling all non-English UK citizens — they could probably do it in under a year with enough motivation.