Ashim

Suffering from several mental illness.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Every argument of “because of the smartphone” or “the Internet” or “social media” is cope, to avoid confronting the catastrophic collapse of incumbent institutional competence over the same timeframe.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@BonesawMD Promiscuous women are often low iq, low self worth empty shells desperate for validation, imagine trying to paint these dumb whores as deep, accepting and understanding of human nature and virgins/less promiscuous as insecure or whatever lmao.

[brute de force @brutedeforce]

The hero’s journey is not from a free man to a slave to a free man. It’s from a slave to a free man and back to a slave.

Final form of freedom is going back to slavery. Putting the ball and the chain on. Fusing back with the matrix.

Final form of creativity is discipline. It’s not creative to disciplined to creative. It’s disciplined to creative to disciplined. The recognition that it’s the routine that creates the flow.

Biggest curse of those who grow too big is there being no cell big enough to contain them. So they create God. To feel
Small. So they can feel home again.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@tokyosunbather Please don't forget women's rights also, please

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This argument is a speedrun of how the right lost the culture war for three decades and almost destroyed western civilization by so doing.

The right became infected with two terrible assumptions.

1. That childishness is bad.

2. That play is for children.

Both of these assumptions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature, how humans work, and why humans are the dominant species on Earth.

The difference between a human and a great ape is a special kind of genetic adaptation called neoteny.

It means the retention of juvenile traits into adulthood.

To a large degree, humans became humans by retaining the traits of baby apes in adult apes. Not just the facial physiology, but the curiosity, neural plasticity, and, yes, the tendency to play.

To understand why this helped humans, you have to understand what play IS, beyond the knee-jerk common-sense reaction of "frivolous things children do to entertain themselves".

But that's not an explanation of what play is. Because why does play entertain children? Why are they evolved to like it?

Because play, games, and stories are training for adult responsibilities.

Kittens pounce on string, chase each other, and wrestle because pouncing, chasing, and wrestling are the responsibilities of an adult cat.

If two little boys find two sticks, they will sword fight with them. Hell, if give a little boy a fucking pop-tart, he will bite it into the shape of a pistol, and run around yelling "bang".

But what about adults?

Most adult animals don't play much compared to when they were kids, and don't learn much, either, because there isn't a whole left to learn that they are actually capable of learning... at least not compared to the volume and rate of learning that they experienced as children.

But humans, the galaxy-brained geniuses of the animal kingdom, have the capacity to learn at a high rate throughout life.

And neotenously retaining childhood traits equips us with the urges to match that capability.

Human beings not only can and do play throughout life, they must, or their learning abilities stagnate and atrophy, and their emotional health suffers.

If you teach an adult that play, fun, games, and stories are childish things that he should "put away" when he becomes a man, after a decade or so you have a dullard, fit only for manual labor or routine and repeated application of rote processes.

Is @ItIsHoeMath such a person?

Of course not. He has risen to internet fame by playing... by drawing anime and telling stories. His actions demonstrate an innate understanding that cartoons and stories and simple things that explain by removing complexity are not frivolous activities at all... they are vital.

But his contempt for leftists, their arrested development, and the way they hide from responsibility, has caused him to fall into the same error that came within a hair's breadth of destroying Western civilization.

The right abandoned culture. Conservatives stopped making stories and games that expressed their worldview, because they decided games were for nerds, and stories were for manchildren who were too lazy to spend their evenings reading car repair manuals and the Wall Street Journal.

By deciding that play was for queers and commies, the right ceded the creation of art, of stories, of games entirely to, well... commies and queers.

Of course you lose the culture war if you don't show up and fight it, genius. Fiction and games are the DNA of civilization, and thus they are the battleground on which the culture war is fought.

If you don't make games, toys, and stories that express your worldview, people (both children and adults) are going to play with toys created to express other worldviews.

And play is learning.

So what do you think they are going to learn?

You cannot hunt, fish, and baseball your way to cultural relevance. Because anyone with a brain that isn't half-dead from underuse is going to read fiction, play games, or watch cartoons, and maybe all of these things.

Why you think the entire tech industry became left-coded?

Leftism has no nothing to do with tech, but video games, legos, and science fiction do. Engineers couldn't give less of a shit about baseball.

Active, curious, playful minds design the future, whether you like that or not. The Wright brothers played with bicycles and kites, and now you can fly to Paris overnight. Elon Musk read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress with a flashlight under the covers, and now we can catch returning rocket boosters with giant mecha-chopsticks.

Unless your cultural faction participates in what these people are interested in, you will not recruit them, and they will design a future that doesn't include you.

Frankly, sometimes I think the conservatives are still taking their cultural marching orders from a pack of humorless, soulless dullards who would still be losing as hard as ever if the theater kids hadn't pissed off Elon Musk.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

Here's the most important flaw in the simulation theory: you said it's based on logic and statistics, why do you assume the "outer" worlds also have the same framework of reality? Maybe maths isn't even a thing. Infact the exact logic you use as the foundation of simulation aka recursive unlimited world so our world isn't likely to be the one true world can be used to claim that our world's logic isn't the true logic, it collapses unto itself. And what even is probability, what does it actually mean and represent? We could keep going there's no shortage of flaws in the simulation theory which someone like you could easily see if you're weren't so attached to it, like a religious faith...

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

I’ve always struggled to understand people who think that describing the harsh conditions on Mars is some kind of slam dunk argument against colonisation. But I think I get it now.

These people don’t understand what’s keeping them alive here on Earth. They take for granted the massive stack of technology supporting them - the supply chains, the agriculture, the energy production - and consider themselves living naturally in an environment they are adapted for, which is nonsense.

It’s a paradoxical sort of helplessness, assuming humans have limited ability to transform their environment whilst existing only due to a radically transformed terrestrial environment.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@ichthys30 What kind of future do you want? A stagnant society that just maintains the level we have attained or a society that continues to accelerate like we've been for the last centuary? The latter requires human capital, the more the better and we start populating other planets.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@Cluffalo Individuals can diagree, groups almost always and decisively agree. It's called statistics and probabilistic reasoning, one of the very foundations of human knowledge. Maybe pick up a book?

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

We are the rulers of the planet, the economic system, needing a job, and every other current way of societal structures are all 'artifical' in a sense. Why must we insist on preserving these? And why is the inevitable ai future some version of communism or serfdom? This reeks of the lack of the imagination and loser mentality that plagues the right. AI is coming, it's potential is endless, inconceivable. We can imagine, fight for and create a future with this godly tech that can make us look like primitive apes but instead we choose to be luddites and doomers, sitting there complaning as others take control of the tech to create their version the future, a future of ubi, sloth, hedonism and all kinds of degeneracy. We can and must do better.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@kiikazuu "He's an incel."
Points to his hot ex girlfriend.
"You're glazing another man haha."

Notice the deflection and gaslighting. Many such cases.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@Arin_Yumi Western woke propaganda is truly effective at capturing women's minds, here you have women halfway across the globe protesting abortion sentiment in the us, especially in a country like japan.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@banvlad @ankylo0 @hourly_shitpost Which means 50% are less than that.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@Rothmus Word on the streets is they also somehow use round wheels and long levers.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@DiamondEyesFox Simulation confirmed.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

Emergent = not directly designed or intended and some new logic that arises different from the parts, modern designs are anything but emergent. Many npcs who never question the philosophy or the logic of "their own" ideas and values fail to see how deeply intended and logical all of this is, like the fish that never notices the water. If only people knew how deeply rooted postmodern thinking is and what logic it follows a lot of the bs would evaporate overnight.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

And how exactly will this social cohesion be achieved? It's impossible to not have wealth gap(morally corrupt to even want that but anyway) and if you had a magic button to massively cut the wealth gap overnight the goal post would just shift to something else. You can never ever bow to these ideas as history has shown over and over again.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@artwithinpod "Our" resources? Unhelpful to whom? Absolutely nobody is stopping you from staying here and helping others. But as always, you don't want to do any of that yourselves just dictate and control what others should and shouldn't do.

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@sam_d_1995 Yes but can you please explain why we cannot eliminate property taxes and idk maybe 90% of government spending and still get all of those services?

[Ashim @ashim_rb]

@hubermanlab @pmarca @joerogan Based huberman slowly coming out, W.