this is unfortunately one of his worst posts though

i do think that the prevalence of p-hacking and other phenomena means that the "expert class" is not always right, but trans regret easily aligns with empirical reality—the 1-3% stat matches the vanishingly small number of publicly detrans people

this was the sentence of the year for me, probably

regardless of what it is, it seems like there's a recurring trendwhere there's a brief span where brilliant, genre-defining works all arise around the same time and then there isn't this _density_ of quality ever again within the medium

re: movies, it seems to me like scorsese is the only western director that makes anything remarkable nowadays

is there like some perfect equilibrium of attention/money/whatever in a space that attracts the right kind of person?

not enough -> under-resourced, poor quality
too much -> popular, slop

A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength—life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

If you are shocked by the outcome of an important event, and another group doesn't seem surprised at all, you should get curious about their media diet... and yours.

Don't have anything profound today, but here is a funny footnote from my readings.

I am a transhumanist because I do not have enough hubris not to try and kill God.

History only happens at the state's convenience.

Has Death itself become a telecommodity? A dark tide of scare-stories and morbid rumour increasingly suggests so.

whenever we hear nowadays "that's to be judged by the outcome," we know immediately with whom we have the honor of conversing. they live in their thoughts... they have a permanent position in a well-organized state, separated by centuries from the convulsions of existence.

politics is theology around the back, where it twists

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