no permanent underclass. no spike-adorned von Neumann probes. no slave races. we're going to build the Culture.

Zoning & Rent Control is unconstitutional: -The Takings Clause is enumerated. -The police power isn't, and was used to nullify the clause -Commandeering (use, occupant, price) is taking in every functional sense -Imagine if you owned a gun but the police kept it at the station

Leah Libresco Sargeant This article exemplifies a dynamic I find interesting and kind of sad. Its opening thesis is "the nuns just want to continue to live their lives by their values in peace, without harassment from the state", and this is a thesis that in my heart has an incredibly strong

Before anyone gets excited it was boomer military airplane fiction. She just wanted to make the point that there could be nothing in my world but her when I was in her class. There is no God but the Cluster B Personality Disorder and teachers are Her prophets.

public schools are child abuse

Historically the best way to align humans to seemingly arbitrary and contradictory lists of rules has been to convince them they're in some kind of elaborate, carefully monitored evaluation.

travis4nh If I were you I'd let companies build data centers by-right on any property larger than say, 100 acres. That's the true libertarian play for bringing industry to NH right now.

substack should have a button on paid articles, enabled as an option by authors, that lets a benefactor "buy it for everyone." e.g. a rich benefactor may think it to be worth $500 or some such amount to make an article behind a paywall free for everyone.

“We’ll get along with [Anthropic] just fine,” TRUMP just said on cnbc. “I think they can be of great use.” Said Anthropic is led by “high IQ people” and that talks at the WH were “very good.” “They tend to be on the left, radical left, but we get along with them.”

Orson Scott Card I have no idea whether you approve of my writing, let alone the life I lead, but thank you for passing on your knowledge to me.

in the interest of being an honest commentator and my urge to countersignal: claude is an excellent product and it bodes well for them that their main problem is everyone really wants it and so they have to do odd shit to shake off demand. it’s kind of like governing california

Having thought about the issue, I think I'm in now favor of universal suffrage (including children), but only in person, and only with one person in the voting booth at a time.

Joshua Communists and evangelicals have this rhetorical move in common where they're actually completely unable to respond to disagreement, so they make up that the person who disagrees with them is secretly tormented by their sinful behavior. That way they don't have to respond!

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r Nah, even when SBF had money, he didn't fund MIRI. I retrospect this should have been everyone's first clue that he was secretly a villain. What kind of person does that? What kind of human being?

the time approaches when AI will be adept enough to take everything my brain imagines and force you to see it too

CS Lewis is also the reason The Space Trilogy exists, so it's impossible to say if his existence was good or bad

Everyone loves the filter!

Historic preservation is an unconstitutional taking!

poor claude

This is why I donate to the SAF