As a non-tech person who has zero idea what Urbit is, this is still deeply funny to me.
I'm guessing there's probably a libertarian bent to this whole thing, somehow?
JohnBierce
joined 2 years ago
Seldom have I seen anyone who has drunk their own kool-aid deeper than SBF.
Oh heck yeah new Dan Olson
The full book is well worth the read, imho.
You should check out the book A Libertarian Walks into a Bear for another great example, if you haven't already!
Uggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
Huh a friend of mine recommended this to me recently, I should check it out
Oooh, Quinn Slobodian! Just read his book Crack-Up Capitalism, good stuff.
Solid post, already shared this a few times.
...The vast majority of guys I know who have been in a lot of fights (me included) are quite happy never getting in a fight again? Like, there's definitely a few weirdos and dudes with anger issues who love fighting, but the shine wears off pretty damn quick for most people, and they'd rather avoid the fight in the first place? I really don't think real-life arenas and duels would work the way this guy thinks.
(I used to work as a bouncer in a bar, haven't been in a fight since then, I prefer keeping it that way. Also, fair notice, I wasn't actually a very good fighter- I was the average-sized, unintimidating bouncer, my job was to head off fights before they happened, so the bigger bouncers and bartenders didn't have to intervene, and I was good at talking drunks down. I wrestled a decent number of drunks when I had to, but that did not an impressive fighter make, I'd suck at Colosseum fights, lol.)
Thank you!
I actually have some thoughts about that topic as well- could be an interesting thread! (I personally think that we are, at least to a small extent, similar dynamic-wise to the cult survivor networks that help their friends and family escape the cult they themselves escaped- after all, a huge number of us are former Rationalists or, like myself, narrowly escaped their gravitational pull. Kinda puts a weird twist on our relationship to the Rationalists. Doesn't make us immune from transitioning from "unkind critics" to something worse, especially if we were to start brigading or something else awful, but I think has some valuable social lessons for the group?)
Oh gross