I feel like there's a bon mot in there about it being virtually certain that physicists working on hidden variable QM theories will be doing the exact same thing in 30 years.

Any clue why?

And sadly we're probably too used to being honest and straightforward at this point to really be good pathological liars.

Doesn't Eliezer Yudkowsky kind of have his own cult though?

@rebeccawatson.bsky.social has a good take on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7B...

Fascism works on the fear and silent "consent" of the governed. i.e. we should mostly disconnect from things that aren't helpful to us and focus on limited areas where being non-compliant or actively resisting will matter.

It reiterates what we learned previously - that electoral politics is a distraction if the Dems would rather lose than adopt progressive policies.

The "push back" is on us now. We should learn from 2016 not to fall prey to the media's controversy, shock, apathy cycle.

I think a corollary could be: to help you envision better worlds that could exist.