Author: polistra
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Orwell said it better
Kirn: If not careful, we’re going to end up in a caste system built around truth & accuracy. The people at the top will have great info, those in the middle decent info mixed w/ junk & propaganda, those at the bottom pure BS. And you may be stuck in your class, security-clearance style Not…
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Would be a nice experiment
Thinking about hucksters who formerly needed to “demonstrate” their systems and machines. Here’s a pretty good modern demo for bitcoin. A sort of Tide Pod Challenge. Nocoiner and Procoiner are on Zoom. Nocoiner challenges Procoiner to a race. Each of us will pick a song on Spotify. After we pick, we’ll show them on Zoom…
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Missed the best part
At MindMatters: A surprising find for evolutionary neuroscientists is that a tiny life form that lived more than half a billion years ago had a brain. Creatures like Cardiodictyon were not supposed to have had brains. MindMatters sort of ‘buried the lede’ on the actual article. Early arthropods were already known to have brains, but…
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Least surprising surprise
Apple and Amazon quietly returned to advertising on Twitter after being noisily “gone” for a few days. These monsters know each other well, and they know Elon is a full-fledged Deepstater. THEY KNOW IT’S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY MADE THE HOAX. In the end only auto companies will stay out, for real business reasons, not…
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UFO joke
Another fine joke from upjoke.com Aliens have arrived on earth. They command a huge event with all the world leaders in attendance. The Pope asks, “Do you know Jesus Christ?” The aliens say, “Do we ever? Awesome guy! He swings by the planet every year to say Hi!” “Every year? What!!?? We’re still waiting for…
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Y no magic?
In earlier decades hucksters selling ‘systems’ always had to DEMONSTRATE their machine or pill or process. The demonstrations had to be clever and convincing. They used traditional magic illusions or faith-healer illusions. Investors wanted to WITNESS the perpetual motion or the miraculous healing. Recent hucksters have been freed from this burden. Bitcoin has never been…
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It’s deeper than iPhones
Latest from Kirn: Today I went to great lengths to express myself clearly in several interactions — with a server in a restaurant, a hotel clerk, etc — and was met in each case by a sort of cheerful, glazed, and rather stubborn incomprehension. Frustrating. Strange. Felt almost astrological. Commenters cite iPhone distraction, which is…
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Got curious
I decided to take a look at the central forum for the Effective Altruism monsters. Right off the bat their satanic evil shows up. Headline: Why neuron counts shouldn’t be used as proxies for moral weight. Jesus. This is exactly Peter Singer’s version of Nazi eugenics. The article says that many EA demons are proposing…
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Ginrut?
AI textbots have become so convincing that some people are writing their own material and falsely attributing it to the GPT3 bot for more credibility! Is this an inverse Turing test? Converse? Inside-out? Mobius? Mass-production writers have turned to the artistic AIs like DALL-E to make their required clickbait pics at the top of every…
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Clarifying thought
Not related to anything current, just a clarifying thought, a new angle on a familiar subject. One of my Thiel Questions is: If you want to leave a legacy, don’t copyright your work. This runs counter to everything you normally read about copyright. Clarifier: Everything you normally read is based on the faulty assumption that…
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Just like smallpox!
Back when the NAZI TORTURE CAMPS started, my very first impulse was to assume that China was wiping out opposition, not “viruses”. A few days ago I casually used the assumption: The “virus” holocaust, which seemed permanent, halted in late 2020 in sane places and halted last month in the craziest places. (Except for China,…
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Salon?
Non-woke Twitter users are quickly developing a cult of personality around Messiah Elon. Kirn claims to see a much more “salon-like” atmosphere. As a non-member who doesn’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, I don’t see any difference. Twitter now allows a non-member to browse without limit, so I can see more messages than…
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Reprint on Mennonites
Following on previous item, here’s a 2018 reprint on those culturally influential Mennonites. = = = = = START REPRINT: As I’ve noted repeatedly, the line between Soros and non-Soros corresponds pretty closely to debt vs saving. The one BIG exception is China, which has fueled its tremendous mercantile expansion with pure debt. Now that…
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Good work by Burge
Ryan Burge, the religion graph man, has put together a huge batch of graphs from the latest annual survey. Overall, maps by county are hard to use and deceptive because ‘county’ is an entirely different entity west and east of the Dry Line. East of the Dry Line, all counties are about the same physical…
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Two Matts
Nice clean comparison between two major Substack writers doing similar exposures. = = = = = Matt Taibbi has pulled together some internal emails from Twitter ex-employees, showing how Twitter favored D over R. This is not SHANNON INFORMATION because anyone can see that Twitter is pure D. This is also meaningless information because it’s…
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