If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Great article on how debt is going to be piling more and more difficulty on us all in the future.

The problem of responsibility in governance is huge. I mean, even if the problem of responsibility itself (as shown in the Adam Curtis doc about the systems building fiasco) were to be solved, up and down the chain, even a coherent government with a strong sense of responsibility to its citizens, an...

I've not yet watched it - but there is a doc on youtube: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5VorymiL4[/youtube] Great find, fascinating insight into how something can get built even though everyone working on it can see it's shoddy. It's the usual problem with spending other peoples' money ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs is an oldie but a goodie - highly recommended and still relevant today. Not about tower blocks or housing projects specifically, but urban planning in general. Yeah, second that, there have been lots of books around those topics since, but ...

For the Dennett fans (and haters). http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1496847714-soonish7%20(1).png As someone who is both a Dennett fan and someone who believes that he played games with definitions in that particular area, that was fun. Thanks. It's a funny skit, but I don't see how Dennett "playe...

Interestingly, Southern's progress does to a large extent agree with what Aneris was very poorly arguing. That was my subtext. Lauren is skipping far down the path of "gradual radicalisation" in the twisted road to Auschwitz sense. With golden pigtails flying. So was Godfrey Elfwick's (supposed) sk...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_KMA7Is94c[/youtube] I just can't slog through listening to Alex Jones. He has a grating voice and says just disgusting things. Link me to a text blog and I might read it. But as far as Chelsea Clinton goes, some of the most vile and disgusting behavior are...

Matt Liebman actually is making a decent point here, although he definitely could've gone about it better. I'm speaking mainly from a US perspective, so bear that in mind, but the amount of fear-mongering and over-focus on terrorism as a threat is disproportional to the actual size of the problem. ...

It's weird, I'm stuck between internally assuming the God-form of Lenin hailing a taxi when I think of "these truths are self-evident ...", on the one hand, and gluing a comb to my septum and goose-stepping in front of a portrait of Adolf in my bedroom when I think of "blood & soil," on the other. I...

I think the problem with civic nationalism is that it's weaksauce as far as the limbic system is concerned, it's motivating enough for high IQ people who can see the sense in it, but it's not going to be motivating enough for low-IQ people. What makes the below-average human animal bright-eyed and ...

Good NRO article on Antifa.

I think the problem with civic nationalism is that it's weaksauce as far as the limbic system is concerned, it's motivating enough for high IQ people who can see the sense in it, but it's not going to be motivating enough for low-IQ people. What makes the below-average human animal bright-eyed and b...

So the onus of proving that his specific set of axioms based on transcendent grounding is still adaptive is on Peterson. It's also possible that a different set of axioms, not based on transcendent grounding, might be more adaptive than Peterson's set. "It's worked so far" isn't necessary evidence ...

WSJ article by Bret Weinstein, the Evergreen guy. Like most of us here, he targets Critical Theory and Postmodernism as the root causes of the nonsense. I agree with what Rubin said in the interview, that his case is important because it's so painfully obvious that he's not got a racist bone in his...

Kathy Griffin is a jester. She's SUPPOSED to transgress against the tyrant. So she was wrong to apologise. And if she wouldnt have posed with a bloody Obama or Hillary head, then she's bad at her job. Amanda Marcotte is right about Sgt. Pepper's. But she doesnt follow her thesis far enough: the nec...

The thing that intrigues me about the Kathy Griffin affair is similar to what Sargon talks about in his short Thinkery vid about it - the subtext(s). The symbolism (including her slightly pursed expression) is a bit like a painted, periwigged aristocrat saying, "Fuck your dreams, peasant, WE are th...

The thing that intrigues me about the Kathy Griffin affair is similar to what Sargon talks about in his short Thinkery vid about it - the subtext(s). The symbolism (including her slightly pursed expression) is a bit like a painted, periwigged aristocrat saying, "Fuck your dreams, peasant, WE are th...

The thing that intrigues me about the Kathy Griffin affair is similar to what Sargon talks about in his short Thinkery vid about it - the subtext(s). The symbolism (including her slightly pursed expression) is a bit like a painted, periwigged aristocrat saying, "Fuck your dreams, peasant, WE are the...

He Who Shall Not Be Named has just done a hilarious typo in a tweet, and the internet has exploded:- #covfefe

That was about the subsequent apology vid, ofc.

Re. the Kathy Griffin beheading pic flap, the inimitable Iowahawk tweeted: "The abject fear in her eyes indicates she was either grilled by the Secret Service or her booking agent." :rimshot: :D :lol:

I think that the rift between Thunderfoot and Sargon/Kraut/Dave/Vee&co was pretty much inevitable, they have very few things in common other than the dismissal of the po-mo epistemology. Thunderfoot is much closer to Dawkins or Harris than to Thomas Sowell (who by and large is Sargon's reference wh...

I thought I'd come back and check in on the pit after a long absence. And JFC. Do you guys really think this "Conceptual Penis" hoax proved anything? A hoax paper was published in an "author friendly", pay-to-play, non Gender Studies journal, with no impact factor. And this is evidence that... gend...

Why the fuck are so many mainstream thought leaders 23 years old? It started with the boomer generation - biggest youth generation ever, which got more pocket money than any previous generations of kids, which commerce tried to get them to part with. Part of this involved courting the opinions of t...

Why the fuck are so many mainstream thought leaders 23 years old? It started with the boomer generation - biggest youth generation ever, which got more pocket money than any previous generations of kids, which commerce tried to get them to part with. Part of this involved courting the opinions of t...

The rot starts when "HR" transforms into "people and culture" HR can't find an adequate candidate worth a damn. They won't accept resumes at the front office, skim them and call a hiring manager. They mainly know how to shuffle the resume workflow system they got from Oracle. And policy. They are m...

Dislike Antifa? SJWs? Bike lock wielding maniacs? Then this is pure porn. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q6W4nbVmiM[/youtube] God damn! How many times to they have to replay that guy getting a bike lock to the skull ???? I had to stop it a few times, but no matter where I moved in the ti...

I think that everything in that is a little too right-ward on the graph. ^_^ I'd rather say that "center" bubble is hollow, there's very little in the center now at the national level, probably more at the local level actually (i.e. your local paper has more chance of being actually centrist than a...

Often while I'm sitting at my computer, one of the dogs will be sleeping next to me, softly yipping and jerking his leg. My question is: Do dogs know that they're dreaming, or do they wake up remembering(to the extent they can)the dream as a real experience. A few minutes ago I was next to my human...

Christ, what the fuck is that hand symbol? https://imgoat.com/uploads/f0e3dad999/18643.jpeg It is the heart hand sign twitch gamer girls give out every time you give them a tip in order to encourage their watchers to give more money. I can't think of a more blatant visualization of false feelings a...

Aaaaand - it's a [REDACTED]. Salman Abedi, a "known wolf".

Btw, following on from that post about politics, I've been toying with the idea that we've probably been looking at democracy through the wrong end of the telescope. Rather than democracy as a selector , it might be better to think of democracy as more of a filter . More of a Popperian sort of idea ...

Thank you AndrewV69, that was a fascinating read. Yer welcome. What struck me was was how close it came to matching some of the things I had somewhat surmised. BTW Feminists apparently broke up, either by accident or design, both Occupy Toronto and Vancouver. Both of which were thriving till they a...

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/176/876/aa2.jpg The irony here, being, that the Crusades were the attack of an unsophisticated, bigoted culture against a more cosmopolitan and enlightened one... The irony here is that the First Crusade was a moderately successful and very belated d...

The more I see of things like this, the less inner conflict I have. These fuckers targeted KIDS, with a fucking NAIL BOMB. How does our system respond to it without giving up something valuable? I'd hate to see Britain or Europe become Texas on this issue, but I wouldn't blame them a bit, either. T...

19 dead, 50 injured. A nail bomb at a kid's concert. A fucking nail bomb. Fuck. I think this might be the straw that breaks the camel's back in terms of people in the UK's tolerance for the usual "Islamophobia" protocol from the media and the great & good (if it is a Muslim, ofc - and to be scrupul...

Just following up on that about magic. The really whacky hypothesis would be as follows:- 1) you induce a liminal state 2) you meet "beings" in the liminal state, have conversations with them and petition them to do various things 3) those beings have a life of their own, the visionary state is a ki...

I used to get the procession-of-faces thing quite a lot when I was drifting off to sleep. They were always human, unrecognizable and had something vaguely evil about them. I've always been a bit odd when it comes to observing faces when on the verge of sleep - I recall drifting off in front of the ...

I was listening to This American Life today, and it featured a story about a guy who was genuinely depressed about the Fermi Paradox. So I was wondering what people thought of the FP. What's the answer? 1 We're the only technologically advanced civilization in the Galaxy, or at least the first one-...

Or like those hypnagogic hallucinations you sometimes get when you're falling asleep - you know, like a kind of bubbling, random verbal spaghetti that's almost words and meaningful sentences but not quite. Fucker! You, too? I see text before my eyes & hear my inner monologue reading syntactically c...

Or like those hypnagogic hallucinations you sometimes get when you're falling asleep - you know, like a kind of bubbling, random verbal spaghetti that's almost words and meaningful sentences but not quite.

The aesthetic of New Real Peer review Twitter account is spot on, it's as if all this gibberish is like the beginnings of some emergent global AI disintegrating our thought prior to taking us over :)

Or like the twittering of the famous "machine elves" of DMT delirium.

Teal deer (tl dr) made a vid along the same lines. T-foot and TD seem to do a bit of research when they make a vid ( TD deconstructs papers and provides citations) Most of the other crop do a more "seat of the pants" style of commentary. While some banter can be entertaining, there seems to be an o...

I actually quite like the fact that things are shifting around. I mean, just on Youtube (which has totally replaced tv for me) recently we've had Laci Green and Milo becoming Nazis, Shoe apologizing for being hard on Milo, Tf00t flouncing off, Sargon's having to admit being disturbed by the recent C...

BTW, the anti "New Atheist" nutjobs (all violently obsessed with how "racist" Sam Harris and the "new atheist threat" is) are all pissed with the "Conceptual Penis" hoax. These nutters include Dan Arel (new member), CJ Werleman, Andy Kindler, "Johnny Spooner", "Sacha Saaen", "Tom Bloke", and a few ...

https://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/865690452497924096 https://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/865690452497924096 As of now, the original PDF remains available. Great stuff. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk That is ... a thing of beauty. I'd noticed a few quite forthright anti-S...

Re. the decline of Western cultural confidence, it mostly comes from the slaughterhouse of WWI. Intellectuals thought, well if Western values can lead to this (even after a period of the greatest peace and prosperity and technological advancement human beings had ever known for the 50 years leading ...

Hot from Melbourne University: Men should learn how to speak like women," the report found, "(and) not speak with absolute confidence when they are in fact not sure or expressing an opinion http://www.smh.com.au/comment/we-should-stop-mistaking-confidence-for-anything-but-selfbelief-20170518-gw89ps...

I agree that we'll have to deal with Po-Mo ideas for quite a while. There's been a lot of backlash but the foundations of the power of the Po-Mo left are still there. What would really kill the Po-Mo left would be an anti-Po-Mo left. If there was an organized movement which dealt with issues like p...

I haven't seen this posted yet. Perhaps the South will rise again (if this is the nature of people offended by one of its flags) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm77pqCtBNE[/youtube] I've seen it, but not sure about the title. I didn't see a "Latino store employee", just white men. It is h...

Anybody else think the Tuvel affair, if not the torpedo that sinks the SJW battleship, certainly has the whole thing listing a bit? It's like the trans guys beating chicks at sport, it's just so absurd, such an obvious reductio , that cracks are bound to appear in the ideological carapace for lots ...

The most striking thing about Laci's video is her quite firm rejection of the "words=violence" rhetoric. I think saying she's red pilled would be a bit too strong, she still considers herself an intersectional Feminist, but on this issue at least, she's clearly had an epiphany.

Story-telling like? Sounds like creating a narrative to me. I recall Joseph Campbell's thoughts on Monomyth/The Hero's Journey (which have also been used to structure therapy or self-improvement courses). Campbell created an internally consistent theory - but I'm not so sure that all myths are the ...

I woke up suddenly this morning with the funny feeling that SJW-ism is going to become quite unfashionable quite quickly soon.

That's all I've got for the moment.

Neatly encapsulating rant on the French election from Razorfist:-

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We'll be reelecting - that is, electing properly - our second female PM in the UK next month. She currently has the highest approval ratings of any PM for 40 years. Just goes to show, you don't need feminism to succeed, you just need Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the opposition. Not that she'll be get...

THIS is fucking hi-larious. An absolute masterpiece. Flagged by Sargon in one of his recent. Unfortunately too big to post as an actual image:- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/868/795/d96.jpg Damn you. Why did you link to that. You just turned me into a double-nazi! The funniest th...

Re. the UBI, if someone like Charles Murray is for it, that's actually quite a high recommendation in my eyes. The man knows economics, he's a Right-winger, so ostensibly it should be anathema to him, but he has determined that the benefits outweigh the costs. The really big problem with welfare is ...

I still think all this stuff (robots, driverless cars, internet of things, AI, etc.) is overblown and likely to be this age's equivalent of flying cars. The problem is that so far as I can tell as a layman, the degree of care you need to invest in software to make it bug-free in "mission critical" ...

THIS is fucking hi-larious. An absolute masterpiece. Flagged by Sargon in one of his recent. Unfortunately too big to post as an actual image:-

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