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The Future Primaeval
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The Future Primaeval is a personal blog at thefutureprimaeval.net about politics and philosophy. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Overton Window and Political Control”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link its essays on social technology (organizing people for large projects), the Overton window and voter power, and 'Sanity for Sociality' on group belonging. Most comments only cite or link the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Wiser counsel for the smarter sort of bro.
Most-linked posts?
- The Overton Window and Political Control2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-26
What Hacker News says?
To get the same transit in the US, we'd need to spend 5-10x what Europeans/Asians/anyone else in the world spends. https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp... In the US, public spending is generally a way to funnel money to cronies of the inner party (e.g. transit worker unions, construction unions, politically connected consultants). Various other interest groups - mainly NIMBY homeowners - will…
Comment linking /social-technology-and-anarcho-tyranny/
on “Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles”Submitted The Overton Window and Political Control as a story · 89 points
HN discussionSocial technology is an important concept: http://thefutureprimaeval.net/social-technology-and-anarcho-... This is not a situation limited to solar energy. In India we have the social technology to organize men and build large projects. The US had this technology 100 years ago, but we've lost it. Trains Delhi metro, phase 2: 77 miles of track, 85 stations, $2.9B, 3 years. Hudson Yards NYC: 1 mile of track, 1 station…
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on “India has launched a 648MW solar power plant”Submitted Social Justice, Ideological Hijackings, and Ideological Security as a story · 60 points
HN discussionVoters have always had power, they have just not been able to organize the "unenlightened" masses: http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-overton-bubble/
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on “How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’”Submitted The Pensioner and the Aristocrat as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe first quote makes sense, the latter two are at best mistaken. > Michael Polanyi: not all knowledge is "formalizable". Actually recipes are an example of his: two cooks following the same recipe may give drastically different results. ... or rather, our formalizations are lossy for the purpose of their usage, lossily interpreted by their users, or simply not good. Recipes are a good example of a lossy formalizati…
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on “Civilization Is Built on Code (2017)”Submitted Social Justice, Ideological Hijackings, and Ideological Security as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think the concept of "social technology" is an important one. http://thefutureprimaeval.net/social-technology-and-anarcho-... While we have the machines and such needed to build a subway or build a bridge, we no longer have the capacity to organize men in such an endeavor.
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on “When Will New York City Sink?”Submitted The Sliding Scale of Bullshit Jobs as a story · 3 points
HN discussion...? You are aware that all of this drama relates to the creator of Neoreaction, right? That vein of the Right has little to do with Trump rallies. It's this kind of stuff: http://thefutureprimaeval.net/ (and more generally: http://www.socialmatter.net ) My description is apt.
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on “Is LambdaConf for Conservative Christians, Too?”Submitted The Pensioner and the Aristocrat as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTo quote from https://lobste.rs/s/ovabwi/social_justice_ideological_hijack... : > This author seems like a calm, unbiased source for social-justice issues. Here is an article where they compare the rise of Napoleon in France, Hitler and communism in Germany, and gay marriage in the US: http://thefutureprimaeval.net/we-support-diversity-and-equal... > Nothing sensational to see here, move along http://thefutureprimae…
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on “Social Justice, Ideological Hijackings, and Ideological Security”Submitted The value of being cavalier as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://thefutureprimaeval.net/servants-without-masters/ White Americans have a very odd bias against personal service. Honestly I think it is a major obstacle to economic growth - image how much more productive the average upper middle class family could be if they could employ servants to get things done at home. Instead USG pays a big portion of "poor" people not to work, and also insists that they cannot work for…
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on “Welcome to the real world of digital nomadism”Submitted Godel vs. The Human Brain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'd suggest this article, "Sanity for Sociality", as a perhaps less longwinded and cleaner elucidation of the same idea. http://thefutureprimaeval.net/sanity-for-sociality/ The gist of it: ...analyze the adoption of...Mormonism: Price: A small piece of sanity...[express belief in assorted weird Mormon things]...Some freedom... Value: Access to high-quality mates. Friendship, community, etc. A stable and sure flouris…
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on “Trying to See Through: A Unified Theory of Nerddom (2012)”
