Sorry to skip the newsletter last week. I was traveling and didn't get a chance to read as much as usual. I guess we missed UFO's, the corporate media finally being willing to acknowledge C19 being from a lab, the crumbling of our national infrastructure resulting in gas shortages, inflation finally being so obvious it even shows up in the gamed statistics, and an entire war in the Middle East. Anyway, now is a great time to buy some bitcoin and share slightly more fun articles:
The Gender Pay Gap & Empirical Facts
https://fakenous.net/?p=2294
One of my favorite genres is: what you think you know to be fact is actually a compilation of cherry picked falsities. This is a good one. So much of what we think we know to be true turns out to be suspect on closer examination, especially nearly all modernist takes. Wisdom that has been with us through the ages tends to hold up the best.
Real Samurai Explains Rules for Peace and War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftSObsSNeBw
This is a narrated translation of an original Samurai text. There are some great gems about how to present a severed head. It also has gems like, "if you are unaware of a person's stupidity, then it cannot be helped. But if you are aware of it, and still have dealings with this person, then you are also considered to be stupid."
There is No AI Risk
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/there-is-no-ai-risk
This is a long but fun read from Curtis Yarvin on why AI cannot equal real power and therefore poses no real risk. AI has been overestimated in nearly every aspect, the general consensus seeming to be that algorithms are so smart that they are shaping our behavior without us knowing. I couldn't disagree with this more, but here is a different tact of giving AI the benefit of the doubt and still finding an apocaplyptic singularity to be ridiculous. NOTE: Curtis Yarvin (aka Moldbug) is deemed to be on the naughty list of thinkers. Do not forward this one to your woke friends even though it seems innocuous. If you are able to handle unapproved thought, however, I highly recommend taking a read of some of his other posts.
The Gender Pay Gap & Empirical Facts
https://fakenous.net/?p=2294
One of my favorite genres is: what you think you know to be fact is actually a compilation of cherry picked falsities. This is a good one. So much of what we think we know to be true turns out to be suspect on closer examination, especially nearly all modernist takes. Wisdom that has been with us through the ages tends to hold up the best.
Real Samurai Explains Rules for Peace and War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftSObsSNeBw
This is a narrated translation of an original Samurai text. There are some great gems about how to present a severed head. It also has gems like, "if you are unaware of a person's stupidity, then it cannot be helped. But if you are aware of it, and still have dealings with this person, then you are also considered to be stupid."
There is No AI Risk
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/there-is-no-ai-risk
This is a long but fun read from Curtis Yarvin on why AI cannot equal real power and therefore poses no real risk. AI has been overestimated in nearly every aspect, the general consensus seeming to be that algorithms are so smart that they are shaping our behavior without us knowing. I couldn't disagree with this more, but here is a different tact of giving AI the benefit of the doubt and still finding an apocaplyptic singularity to be ridiculous. NOTE: Curtis Yarvin (aka Moldbug) is deemed to be on the naughty list of thinkers. Do not forward this one to your woke friends even though it seems innocuous. If you are able to handle unapproved thought, however, I highly recommend taking a read of some of his other posts.