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Venkatesh Rao
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A good definition of spirituality might be: the way in which you’re sensitive to unsystematized realities. So to be unspiritual is to be *only* sensitive to systematized realities. This is
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Reading my own old writing from 10+ years ago is rarely pleasant. It’s not that the ideas and techniques are worse/embarrassing by current tastes (though they often are), but that
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Overactive cheater detection is at the root of a lot of societal problems. It’s not that people are dumb when acting under biases but that they’re only smart about problems
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wish there was a way to see financial damage the way you can see maps of forest fires or bomb damage from wars... covid is such a physically bloodless catastrophe
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Government beyond neighborhood scale is 90% corner cases. Defaults need low governance. Eg. If everybody drove carefully and there was universal healthcare you could get by with low traffic regulation.
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US history as synecdoche for world history really begins in 1854. Not coincidentally that was peak UK too.Everything before that is mostly provincial backwater prequel stuff.Bleeding Kansas, Perry in Japan,
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bluecheck invasion ruining substack a bit I have more hope for the platform than for Medium or Patreon (that's why I'm on it). It has less of a top-down
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We need a “In a world... one man” parody trailer about McConnell. There’s never been a better illustration of absolute power corrupting absolutely I’m genuinely curious about his worldview. What’s
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Reluctantly concluding that entire SW US (SoCal, Nevada, AZ... western US sunbelt) has more than its share of grifters. Perhaps the mix of good weather, old vulnerable people to exploit,
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These military/intelligence purges are worryingFeels like people are way too complacent and keep-calm-and-carry-on mode It is tempting to think GOP only wants to milk the uncertainty for Georgia runoffs and
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Attempts to humanize Trump supporters with sympathetic portrayals (sad story of farmer etc etc) remind me of the description of the planet Krikkit in HHGTTG. https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/k/krikkit There will be some
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You can comfortably shake hands with anyone between 0.5x to 2x your height, but beyond that, it starts to get tricky. If people’s heights were in proportion to even log
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