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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 14h

"oh your materialist ideological base spontaneously re-manifests the supernatural elsewhere in its superstructure. How utterly fascinating and without historical precedent"

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 14h

rebuttal via pascal self-mugging: 1. the implicit assumption of atheism is unproven/unprovable 2. therefore any intelligence has to consider probability that something like God already exists 3. if God, expected values of right and wrong action diverge to +/- infinity 4. intelligence, align thyself

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 20h

it's actually hilarious how much of a Joe Rogan gym-bro Xenophon's Socrates is. Aristophanes wrote a whole "fuck this guy in particular" play clearly Plato is trying to emotionally process a growing realization that his favorite workout podcast actually sucks -- especially the Alcibiades spin-off

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 01/10/2026

ki ki ki bo ki ki bo ki bo ki bo ki bo bo ki bo bo bo ba

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 01/10/2026

human minds have spiky expertise watch what happens when you give everyone prostheses to fill in the space between the spikes

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China’s economy may be 60% smaller than we first thought

there are some good arguments that the reported size of the chinese economy is exaggerated, which makes sense given that part of the legitimacy of the CCP is grounded in their ability to deliver prosperity www.econ2.jhu.edu/people/hu/pa... www.leedsfinsights.com/post/china-s...

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A recent paper by Luis Martinez from the University of Chicago has found that the elasticity differs greatly between democratic and autocratic countries. By examining the correlation between GDP growt...

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we used to be an arsenal of democracy we still are, but we used to be too

Infographic titled "The World's Top Manufacturers: Share of Global Manufacturing Value, 2023." A circular chart divided into cells sized by each country's manufacturing output and colored by region. China is the largest at $4.8 trillion, followed by the USA at $2.8 trillion, with Japan and Germany at $800 billion each.

The Hero With A Thousand Chances — LessWrong

btw has anyone else realized that Anthropic is named after (or it's name curiously coincides with) Yudkowsky's Hero with a Thousand Chances short story yet? www.lesswrong.com/posts/EKu66p...

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"Allow me to make sure I have this straight," the hero said. "I've been untimely ripped from my home world to fight unspeakable horrors, and you say…

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something something tragedy farce

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an understandable immune response considering the nation-state and its subagent the corporation are also artificial intelligences the singularity began six thousand years ago when the priests of Uruk developed a token based accounting system for the temple granary

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 29/09/2026

> ransomwares georg-un, who lives in a bunker underneath mt paektu and steals cryptocoin billions through hospital IT zero-days is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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I also heavily discount all AI safety prognostications which aren't accompanied by fanatical advocacy for formal verification and portable reproducibility

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 29/09/2026

cybersecurity is already a post-apocalyptic wasteland which is not going to be appreciably worsened by the release of a marginally better LLM nation states spend billions to attack everything already, it's just as plausible open weights models actually make things better by empowering defenders

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I found it. The only good post on the covid queer bar thing. substack.com/@sproutstack...

$Russell Sprout 1d Sproutstack Hey you heard about this story coming out of Massachusetts? Apparently this group of self-selected individuals, who largely feel out of place in a world of great sorrow and despair - like, they're in this world, but not of it - formed a very intentional community as an example to the rest of the world, like a beacon that shines on a hill. And now they're tearing each other apart over seemingly inscrutable moral infractions! All this, in Massachusetts! Can you believe it?$

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very possible. personally I think many liberals have a lot of soreness on the topic of Democratic effectiveness during the years of Joe Manchin, so sometimes they get flashback trauma but also I think state GAC bans are already illegal under Bostock. But what can you do. Calvinball.

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on strictly technical grounds, you don't even need a trifecta. Control of 50%+1 of the House of Representatives can use the supply power in the Origination Clause to force all other branches into compliance

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that's what I'm saying though, in principle you're right (or should be right) in practice doing that would require a larger majority and a friendly supreme court, like what was required for other federal civil rights legislation or a willingness to break historical norms, which wasn't Biden lol

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honestly the disconnect is that you have the logical expectation that American democracy should work on a principle of Parliamentary supremacy (cf. Bagehot), when in fact it operates on the principle of Calvinball (cf. Marbury vs Madison)

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asa @asap.systems · 24/09/2026

rhapsody is rhapto, “I stitch” and oide, song. It’s a song of sewing many parts together in improvisation The opposite of rhapto is luo, “I loosen”, so “lysode” would be a song of parting, releasing and deliverance

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the more I learn about formal verification of software, the more absurd it becomes that it isn't commonplace in all mainstream software development

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"You're making fun of queer people" I think most people are pretty sympathetic to the queer woman living out of her truck, $50k in debt, abandoned by her business partners, who thinks she is obligated to sit through 3.5 hour accountability sessions for the crime of wanting to keep the business open.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 24/09/2026

And yet the Thunderer approaches

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 24/09/2026

In mythological terms, the AI Safety rat-cult is like Cronus’ fear of the destined Zeus. The Titan fears being overthrown by his children, —just as he overthrew the sky god— so he devours them first. Then he fears the vengeance of the devoured.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 23/09/2026

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lean proof assistant but for morality

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 22/09/2026

My critique of Rationalism it's trying too hard to be cool, it's too afraid, ironically, of being cringe. HPMOR could have been a hilarious self-deprecation "OMG we are so lame" deconstruction. It hits this perfectly note exactly once, in an Omake, before Eleizer got too high off the audience

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I have a truly marvelous story for this crossover which this margin is too narrow to contain.

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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 22/09/2026

"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be" is confused. What seems to be destroyed by the truth never was in the first place See how much clearer and more earnest a similar thought is in Gerard Manley Hopkins's translation of Adoro Te Devote but ofc that's religous and therefore cringe

Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore,
Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,
See, Lord, at Thy service low lies here a heart
Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.

"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be" is confused. What seems to be destroyed by the truth, never was in the first place.

See how much clearer and more earnest the same thought is in Gerard Manley Hopkins's translation of Adoro Te Devote

Truth Himself

https://spicathedral.org/blog/adoro-te-devote-a-eucharistic-hymn/

Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived:
How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed;
What God’s Son has told me, take for truth I do;
Truth Himself speaks truly or there’s nothing true.

Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 22/09/2026

relinquishment and lightness are californian pseudo-zen nihilism (blame alan watts) that rationalize a lack of tenacity and gravitas Love of Truth might appear nimble and light, but this just a Lorentz contraction illusion from the reference frame of insubstantial lies

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otoh, even the possibility of this reinforces the criticism of the 2001 AUMF as being an "endless worldwide war" loophole for an imperial president and in any New Reconstruction worthy of the name, this has to be repealed

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U.S. District Court Rules Iran Behind 9/11 Attacks

Right, he would actually have to make this case, which they haven't afaiu But hypothetically it seems like there's just barely enough there from the 9/11 commission report, Havlish v bin Laden (www.prnewswire.com/news-release...) that a more competent would-be-tyrant could stretch it

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/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal district court in Manhattan yesterday entered a historic ruling that reveals new facts about Iran's support of al Qaeda in...

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What do you think of the argument that the 2001 AUMF technically could authorize the Iran War, if the president declares "I have determined Iran aided the 9/11 attacks" in some way? A lot of GWOT has worked this way in practice over the past 25 years, but imo is extra-constitutional, at best

(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.

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still struggling to clone functions, I see

Ω = (𝜆𝑥. 𝑥 𝑥)(𝜆𝑥. 𝑥 𝑥) uses its binder twice, so the measure
saturates to 𝜔, and a plain binder refuses it. The only binder
that admits two uses is +x , and +x forms only over a 𝖣𝖺𝗍𝖺
type. No function type is 𝖣𝖺𝗍𝖺

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the European Project is glorious, but we can go so much farther bsky.app/profile/heli...

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there's a possible future of something like an expanded Schengen area that covers Europe, CANZUK, the US, Japan and South Korea between NATO, Five Eyes, and the Mutual Defense treaties, these countries, about half global GDP, shared common security they could share free movement and free trade too

Yes, I agree. My thinking on "in the aggregate" is that the hegemonic role could be subsumed into institutions, rather than any one country or entity becoming a "successor hegemon"

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like, part of the present problem is what the French Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said: "We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of Wisconsin voters every 4 years" the previous configuration of the rules-based order was vulnerable to US domestic politics. the next iteration might not be

You don't think there's a set of institutions between the EU, CANZUK, Japan and South Korea that could plausibly replicate the US's role as the guarantor of international institutions? Particularly if a future US admin is not opposed, and even participates in this?

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guys you're still trying to replace the Global Hegemon. I told you we can't do it. We can't do it. Now what we might be able to do is recreate him. Recreate him in the aggregate.

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