Women can find the most alpha in a poor guy with potential just getting started. By delaying age of marriage, people are already established by the time they pair, and that causes some really shit dynamics. You aren't building together, you've both separately "arrived" and now

Any form of prestige starts out as an organic index of importance and/or celebrity, becomes reified as a deliberately-coveted status symbol, and ends its life as a fringe benefit for middle managers

The story of America for at least the last 40 years has been the gradual dismantling of unspoken gentlemen's agreements that kept transitions of power peaceful, and everyone incentivized to play a repeated game. It is quite bipartisan, and I see no evidence of it changing.

One small aspect of maturity is looking back on the Iliad, which I read as a younger man, and wondering whether Hector was actually the hero of the story, or at least the one you should try to emulate in your own life.

There’s actually a good reason for “e” to show up everywhere when you think about it. Let’s say you think it’s a pretty strange coincidence, maybe you would expect that *naturally* the odds of e showing up in some formula are only like 0.1%, 1 in 1000. Okay, so that leads to the

Of all the areas where you shouldn't unthinkingly fetishize ideas from the past, finance has to be close to the top. Even until the mid 20th century, people had extremely confused and fuzzy ideas about finance. The average medieval thinker had no idea of the tradeoffs involved.

I have been predicting for ages that Elon Musk has already done this (i.e. buy a sperm bank, substitute his own). Right on the direction, maybe wrong on the particular billionaire.

One of the darkly comedic stories is reading how many problems Mexico has due to an insecure border to its south.

The spouse part plausibly, but this is deeply overcomplicating things. There are, to be sure, contemporary artists who can gain you social cachet who you should have eight figures to even look at, but let me propose this extremely real alternate scenario:

John Schoenherr’s artwork for The Illustrated Dune (1978) was highly acclaimed. Frank Herbert not only praised his illustrations as 'careful and accurate,' but he was also so impressed with them that he once referred to Schoenherr as 'the only man who has ever visited Dune.'

One of the most important background pieces of evidence when understanding how much voter fraud there *is*, is how strong the safeguards are against *potential* voter fraud. Presentations like this are absolutely standard, and have been for as long as voting machines existed.

There's a long list of things we thought were universal, but actually only work in high trust societies. "Believing election results are genuine and correct, because they very likely *are* genuine and correct" is a hugely important one that America increasingly no longer does.

Really excellent thread giving detail on the importance of frictions and scale in insecure systems, as applied to current politics.

While below is true, there's just is more attention given towards voting machines and less towards a truck full of ballots for the same candidate "being found"

Biased, outdated attitudes to investments are everywhere. People often reply "congratulations!" when you say you bought a house, but they almost never say "congratulations!" when you tell them you put 2x your net wealth into out-of-the-money zero-day options. That must change.