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St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), the Italian doctor and Dominican friar, was remarkably fit. Even for the age he lived in. Today would probably be considered an epic strong-man and hiking enthusiast.

Everything is infected by asymmetric justice concerns, we'd do better without, projects can fail

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dimwit: people are too lazy, too little is happening
midwit: but if you do too much, you risk running into addictive processes & self-reinforcing loops; credit-assignment is hard and goodhart's law looms everywhere
synwit: yet: we see high-variance societies with lots of innovation doing useful & better stuff all the time, look for actions bounded below but not above, if you're good at optimizing you're probably also good at discovering that your optimization has gone haywire, thousand flowers!

just the right time to leave the internet

The correct contrarian position is to be against animals. In general.

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The modern world is always in trouble, **by definition**

"you're already enlightened" as Buddhist attempt to escape self-reinforcing memeplectix attractors of punishment/reward commonly found in religions ("nowhere to go, nothing to do")

Wading through rivers of carefully calculated blood

if you're more than sort-of libertarian, you're doing it wrong

(same for being less than sort-of libertarian)

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