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Whomst lives in Georgia?

Limitations of economics

Democracy Is All It Takes

About...

Roads and Anarcho-Capitalism

Nothing Wrong with a Little Money Hoarding

Alien invasion!

Comments on Crime and Poverty

Immigration: Building Bridges Where There Is No Water

The Rectification of Names in Politics

A Critique of Sraffa's Commodities

Why Modern Art Is So Awful

The Recording Industry's Bigger Problem

Looking at Consciousness

On the whole "Nordic countries are Socialist" meme animated-hot-image

Losing Faith in Statistics

Misuse of Citation

Save the World with Conspicuous Consumption!

Translating God

Where Do Protests Get Us?

What is not natural

Anyone Can Be a Doomsayer...

FAQ

Diphthongization in Romance Language

How to Judge a Book by Its Cover

Why Passive Voice Should Be Used

On the Efficient Market Hypothesis

We need to start studying NPCs scientifically

Everything People Say About the Media Is True

Little-Known Fallacious Arguments

Why People Do and Don't Leave Religion

Using statistics to look smart

Why Johnny Can't French

On Free Intermigration in North America

How to Manipulate with Language

The Novelty of Conservative Values

The Framework of Grammar and the Michel Thomas Method

The American School of Economics

The Future History of Cuba

On the Quran

Hazy Hours on the Internet

What's the Matter with Massachusetts?

What's Wrong with Hipsters? (Everything)

Gender and language

University Values: Novel, Implied Then Derided

Don't Be Too Worried About a Robot Takeover

Education and Human Spirit

My Gripes with Mainstream Economics

The fundamentalism opportunity

When Progressives Are on the "Wrong Side of History"

Emergent Acedemic Phenomena

Unexpectedly Bad Movies

The Leninist Narrative of Imperialism

Machine and Human Intelligence

The Computational Theory of Mind

On secular morality animated-religion-image

The Problems with Utilitarianism

"Why Waste Your Vote on a Third Party?"

Chinese is Inconceivably Easy

Why Not to Debate

2021 Election

How an Open Media Makes People More Dogmatic

Politics Is Just LARPing

Against the Neil deGrasse Tyson-ization of Science

Sociobiology and Progressivism

Some Signs You Are a Terrible Teacher

"I Have Nothing to Hide" and Comments on Totalitarianism

Maurice Allais

Ron Paul

Stamp an Apple Logo on Anything and People Will Buy It

Rosetta Stone and Other Ways to Waste Money

Alex Jones, increasingly BASED, now even more banned from everything

The Internet: The Greatest Source of Knowledge and Stupidity

The Moral Obligation of Consciousness?

Is a Bachelor's Degree Worth It?

Innovation: Why Old Dogs Don't Invent New Tricks

In Defense of "Pseudoscience"

Deconstructing the Towel of Babel

I'll Vote for Any Politician Who Promises to Destroy Jobs

Conversational Latin

Customizability Is Not a Virtue

The Division of Labor

The nature of discovery

Nassim Taleb on IQ, and what is IQ anyway?

Libertarianism as a Gateway Drug to Reaction

The Infant Problem

Cheap IT: The Google Model

Wishful Thinking: Non-Overlapping Magisteria

Western Self and the Society of China

Journalists are slime

The Republican Endgame?

What's So Good About Private Property?

The Arab Spring Versus Democratic Eschatology

Perfect Competition

(Reason vs. Passion) vs. Heuristics

I will always remember Luke Smith as the perfect example of what happens when you fall for every single /g/ meme at once, without carefully analyzing them first. He owns four ThinkPads at least. While I see nothing wrong with them in themselves, as they are admittedly pretty good value for the price, four is just mindless consumerism, contradictory to his "philosophy". He started using every single shitty pseudominimalist, ncurses-based program, used a shitty riced out i3 setup of dubious actual productivity (like all tiling wms), then fell for the full Suckless meme and went in even deeper. Then he started making videos shitting on Python and praising C, which is ironic considering he is not even a programmer by his own admission. He effectively spent years trying out, configuring and hopelessly trying to integrate tens of meme programs to build what is, combined, effectively a shittier Emacs, just like most of /g/ was doing in their "productive" desktop threads a year or two ago. Then he read the Unabomber manifesto and blindly accepted it without constructively analyzing it first, same with the anarcho-primitivist ideology that was all the rage about a year and a half ago on 4chan and 8ch. While he stated on his website that he "didn't browse 4chan much anymore" it was obvious this wasn't the case.Then he went and took the memes way too far, and unironically went to live in isolation. While I see nothing wrong in itself, the actual reason he did it is massive cringe. He has the mentality of someone 10 years younger than he is, yet he acts like a literal boomer jokingly criticizing "zoomers" despite he himself being the worst example of a millennial. He attacks "nerds" when it't painfully obvious he's deeply unhappy with himself, as it was obviously self-directed criticism thinly veiled as an edgy dabbing video. He is a perfect example of someone you should avoid becoming at all costs.



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