Cautious Hero, off the top of my mind

I am wearing shoes like those right now and I absolutely love them

As an Italian myself I feel pretty skeptical of these results and wonder if there was something off in the methodology or translation. But cool if legit.

That'd be cool, but I've never played eu and I'm still unsure if I want to spend 60€ on a game with that learning curve when my patience for learning new games has plummeted tbh...

Thanks a lot to everyone for the interesting material, by the way!

Busy week ahead for me, but it looks interesting and I'll start checking it all out more thoroughly as soon as I feel a little less overwhelmed :)

I think that:
- attributing stateful success to that one time a continent was wiped out by plagues is extremely simplistic and an indefensible position
- bronze age civs provide weak evidence for what we're discussing
- stateful civs hostile to the powers-that-be have managed to emerge regardless

IMO not great counterpoint if:
• best example(?) of stateless civ you can think of today is a 300k pop 30yo one in Mexico
• others were ~all wiped out by contact with stateful western civ to never re-emerge?

This list gives me little reason for optimism too
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

"I love the ambition but of countless societies that emerged ALL? those that ever amounted to anything powerfully self-preserving were stateful

if you can't very convincingly point to decisive new factors that should shift my reference class, the base rates look awful and failures awfully costly"

Wait why Italian?

im just being nitpicky cause i grew up in boloGNa and am a boloGNese myself (gn pronounced like spanish ñ btw)... but honestly it would have been funnier if you had screwed up genovese too

> bolongese
ugh lol

> whyd i say bolongese,
right? :)

> its not bolongese
right??? :D

> its genovese
AAAAAAAAAAA

I took SNRIs for a total of 2 weeks in 2018 and won permanent side effects too 🎊

The only alcoholic drinks that don't taste godawful, as far as I'm concerned, are the handful that successfully mask the alcohol's flavor with sweetness. Like I've recently found this wine that tastes great, almost like cherry or strawberry juice.

I don't mind the feeling of tipsiness though.

vaguely reminds me of

youtu.be/FpFXlfybnfg?...

it's been a while since I last used this phrasing, but it seemed to me that asking Claude for an "honest assessment" of an idea usually dialed down the sycophancy quite a lot and produced pretty good results

good post

also if i think about it, there have been at least 3 changes that increased my baseline happiness quite a bit in recent years

but still, some things did get hedonic treadmill'd, and that kinda sucks

I'd personally go with something like bjj for martial arts

strikes to the head don't seem worth it

And in unrelated research/browsing, another song about the graphene light sails of arxiv.org/abs/1506.09214 suno.com/song/0d174ab...