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The claims in "official" star wars canon (aka propaganda) is that actually evil characters like palpatine were pulling the strings. But this is biased and often malicious exaggeration, not fundamentally different from how various movements and countries on earth often get branded as "neo-nazis", "CIA conspiracy", etc

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tired: the empire did nothing wrong inspired: the separatists (prequel trilogy) did nothing wrong

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Apparently now we're getting Generation Beta? And then presumably in 2039 Generation Chad? This whole scheme is dumb, we should just refer to age cohorts by their decade of birth like in China.

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People who are interested in living in a long-term network state node (so, permanent location, not popup), what are some properties that you would like such a node to have?

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https://x.com/PratyushRT/status/1873428775171670435 Things like this are a big part of why I'm skeptical of just putting a single AI in charge of things (eg. DAOs, funding mechanisms), and favor an open market where many AIs can participate and humans judge AIs based on some sample of outcomes.

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One thing that frustrates me about "my culture is better than yours" discourse, is that the game inherently drives people to come up with post-hoc justifications for why their fixed pre-existing thing is better than the other guy's fixed pre-existing thing. This is not a productive enterprise. It's completely missing the part where if you realize that some aspect your pre-existing thing sucks, you can actually go and change it and make it better. Compete by offering a better product, not by offering a better justification for a product you were randomly assigned by birth lottery. One of the things that attracted me about network states, is that productive cultural competition that leads to innovation in new and better cultures could actually happen there, and in environments "holistic" enough to capture all aspects of culture that are necessary to run a functioning civilization (as opposed to narrow environments, eg. cryptocurrencies and games) I hope we can take that open-minded approach more.

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One meta belief I have, is that I think "on the face pursuing idealistic objective A, but actually being tilted toward selfish objective B" is better than "openly pursuing objective B". Many seem to believe the opposite, typically saying something like "at least the latter is honest". I feel like what this misses, is that maintaining the face of pursuing idealistic objective A, and using A to coordinate a large coalition, is a pretty big speed bump against attempts to pursue B too brazenly. When "the mask comes off", things actually become much worse, and strategies that pursue B at high costs to other values (including A, and also often general human decency) become unlocked. Are there any good arguments against this intuition I have? (Whether generalized, or about specific situations)

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A mini-contest for deep funding: https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1871827189148291265

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Anyone else starting to get worried about this rise of casual open imperialism? Like, not "peaceful trade at prices social justice activists don't like" imperialism but actual "let's go conquer stuff" imperialism. I know it's "meant to be a joke", but often such jokes are a first step to normalizing something dark...

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What value feels most ideal for a base currency unit to have? https://canvass.fun/p/62jf7k

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I love how a bunch of laws be like: "This offense is punishable with up to thirty years of jail time inside a pit with a thousand snakes, or a fine of up to $125"

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Happy winter solstice! (the moment of the solstice is technically exactly right now)

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Join @ofc_the_club Season 2 campaign!

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I love how friendly people in Argentina are to noobs trying to learn Spanish. If they notice that you "habla un poco" they speak more slowly, use individual English words as needed if you don't understand, but don't just give up and use English for the whole conversation. I wish people in more countries did this.

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Join the Abstract testnet campaign!

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Naive prejudice I had about the world when I was 15 turns out to be entirely correct: https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819

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Should I pay for Ethereum to get more Binance Live access or more KOL posts?

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https://x.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1867549015237148714 Summary of changes: * Add crypto donations * Add links to Tor / VPNs * Remove languages other than English

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Tencent's Hunyuan video model is super impressive. https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo/tree/main Also big thanks to Tencent for making it open-weights!

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