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paul-melman.bsky.social
I dream of a world where the left wants rule by a distributed network of citizens assemblies and the right wants rule by a technocratic doge https://www.electionbyjury.org/
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If protest movements want to be successful, they need to have their own squads to beat up the rioters and looters before the cops get involved

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I knew this allegory was gonna make sense eventually

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I think both ICE and the rioters are bad

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You know, a bunch of smart people should actually patent the Torment Nexus so no one else has the rights to build it for 20 years.

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Rationalists love psychedelics because they make them stop being rationalist for a bit

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there's definitely a gen zalpha tbh. the rate of cultural change has accelerated to the point where 20 years or so is too coarse to understand cultural generations

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IT'S BLUE WEDNESDAY!!!

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everyone shut up, the neoliberal jihad is happening in syria

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I was at a political networking event recently and the conversation turned to AI. A guy asked me my AGI timeline, and I said probably by the early 2030s. He then asked a reasonable question: "If your AGI timeline is so short, why are you working on sortition?" unfacts.substack.com/p/if-my-agi-...

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journals with low impact scores are basically secret tomes when u think about it

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dropped this on someone in discord the other day lol

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

My first post on the official @assembleamerica.org blog is about how sortition can inject local knowledge into policymaking without the need for heavy-handed legibility-increasing tactics typically employed by governments. assemblingamerica.substack.com/p/seeing-the...

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