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Politics replaces religion c 1650-1900. Why? Here's a cognitive model of the underlying beliefs about reality and why they changed.

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@educatedandfree Isn't genetic regression to mean an issue here too? The star athlete has an extreme lucky genetic combination that gets scrambled to something closer to the mean after reproduction

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@curtis_yarvin https://t.co/zv5QplkZM6

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@derek_debus @Nexuist The missile is worth zero after it sinks the sub. Infinite cost benefit ratio

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But reductionism is routine if it's to reduce all men or all whites to something, yes? I think their rule is: throw whatever you can against your enemy because they're evil and hurting people; it's a moral emergency. Sometimes this involves nuance and anecdotes; sometimes this involves reductionist generalities.

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@michaelmurph_y Israel vs Gaza = Slavery vs Hitler
https://t.co/H6V6F0Z3mL

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@AmericanGwyn Unitarian Theodore Parker (1810-1860) called his political movement "progressive", and he expressly traced it back to the "Puritan pilgrims" whom he called the "most progressive" of "the progressive". https://t.co/zv5QplkrWy

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@AmericanGwyn Parker was fascinatingly modern: he opposed the death penalty, female inequality, wealth inequality, and the Anglo-Saxon genocide of native peoples. There's a cognitive model of his Puritan progressive issue pattern here: https://t.co/3dPVTFTJue

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@hamptonism Please!

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@wanyeburkett "they’re just bad people, totally irrational, there’s nothing to support anything they believe, I can’t figure them out”

https://t.co/3dPVTFTJue

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@HephaistosF @tracewoodgrains This sounds like saying it's a placebo but it keeps working anyway. Not sure that's viable?

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This "root causes of crime" idea goes back to Unitarian pastor Theodore Parker in 1849: "But, after all, so long as poverty, misery, intemperance, and ignorance continue, no civil police, no moral police, can keep such causes from creating crime." He was a super progressive on many issues, and he saw his mission as a continuation of what the "progressive" Puritan pilgrims were doing. https://t.co/QMZOIDYRWD

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Unitarian pastor Theodore Parker (1810-1860) had a stunningly modern list of progressive causes: Anglo-Saxon genocide of native people, women's liberation, wealth inequality, abolishing the death penalty.

He seems a smoking gun for the Puritan roots of modern progressivism. He called his movement "progressive", and he said it descended from the Puritan pilgrims, whom he literally called "the most progressive" of "the progressive":

https://t.co/QMZOIDZpMb

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"Poverty causes crime" was one of many super-progressive ideas circa 1840, from Theodore Parker (1810-1860), a Unitarian pastor. Parker called his movement "progressive", and he said it descended from the Puritan pilgrims, whom he literally called "the most progressive" of "the progressive". For more on this, see https://t.co/QMZOIDZpMb

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The Last Words of Copernicus (1755 hymn)

Ye golden lamps of Heav'n farewell,
With all your feeble light;
Farewell thou ever changing moon,
Pale empress of the night.
And thou refulgent orb of day,
In brighter flames array'd;
My soul which springs beyond thy sphere
No more demands thy aid.

Ye stars are but the shining dust
Of my divine abode,
The pavements of those heavenly courts,
Where I shall see my God.
The Father of eternal light
Shall there his beams display;
Nor shall one moment's darkness mix
With that unvaried day.
No more the drops of piercing grief
Shall swell into my eyes;
Nor the meridian sun decline,
Amidst those brighter skies.
There all the millions of his saints
Shall in one song unite;
And each the bliss of all shall view
With infinite delight.

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Agree completely on secular satanism!

God and Heaven start to seem implausible around 1700 under shadow of modern physics. But Grand Evil remains compelling in form of Hitler and Slavery.

Result is a lopsided pseudo-religion: a kind of secular Puritanism where a woke Elect is constantly spotting atrocities the rest of us are missing.

For more on this see:
https://t.co/kVcSsxyP2A

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@ESYudkowsky Seriously, if you really believe this how is your book not free and downloadable now?

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@IsaacKing314 You actually used the word that is the best example of this: the word "literally".

"She literally melted down when he said that."

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@QiaochuYuan Imagine an alien species of Altruism Bunnies, that evolved to exploit Effective Altruism. They experience the most excruciating pain if they can't multiply exponentially. Are EA's obligated to keep feeding them?

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@romanhelmetguy You're using patents to talk up copyright! If copyright is so great, make your case with copyright examples.

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@SquaresToCubes @jarvis_best Nailed it