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Eating meat could be a big net gain for animal welfare, because you’re increasing the amount of animals and thus the amount of animal consciousness per year, which is morally good. Just got to end factory farming, which seems tractable.

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Can’t tell whether the interior human condition is a relentless, neurotic status competition, whether Twitter selects for those people, or whether the algorithm is teaching me about my sublimated desires — or all these things — but goddamn this place lacks sprezzatura

Listen to Kanye’s “Dark Twisted Fantasy” (’10) and hear a Trump reference. Rewatch “Home Alone 2” (’92) and Trump appears. This man’s occupied America’s collective consciousness like an imago for half a century.

If you wanted men to selfishly dominate zero sum games to acquire resources in the first period of their lives, then cooperatively give those resources to mothers, kids, and the weak, you would have testosterone spike in one’s twenties then decline thirties on — which is

Max Novendstern Hmmm I was hoping someone was gna convince me of intelligent design or smthn fun but all I got was rational explanations

Is your problem the Golden Goose or that there are too few Golden Geese?

“Inefficiency” is an American euphemism for what any other country would call “corruption”

We should redesign IQ tests around the “memorize” vs “problem solve” distinction Francois Chollet and Arc draw — if an LLM gets better at the problem by training on similar problems your test is wrong “Group intelligence” scores that internet racists love are, in fact, polluted

Maybe one day some of you will realize the power you have to tell the truth and how much of a difference you can make if you don't give in to the impulse to collapse into irony, whimsy, obfuscation

Max Novendstern That’s honestly the least objectionable part of the hbd IQ “data”.

This is important: Lying via exaggeration to bring light to a truth is profoundly different from lying via gaslighting to hide the truth in plain sight

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before

Endocrine disruption matters

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