Wreckoning

1. Psychological routines like the cube or palm reading are great, but don’t run more than one in a night. 

2. Tone down the cocky funny. Don’t neg her more than once, and don’t neg a 6.5 or below unless you are an ugly man.

3. Don’t get too seductive on the first meet. Save the bedroom eyes for when you have her in a private place.

4. Don’t make out with her too passionately on the first meet. Exquisitely tempting lip brushes and dances of the tongues are better day 2 tactics, after rapport has been established.

5. Don’t hit on another girl immediately after getting her number. Give it room to breathe, soldier.

6. Don’t sound too “polished”. Say something stupid or goofy once in a while, so that she can make fun of you.

7. Expose a vulnerability. Alpha dominance is best served with a garnish of endearing flaws.

8. When you number close, say “I’m looking forward to seeing you.”

1. Complain.

2. Argue.

3. Confuse Aggressiveness for Cockiness.

4. Leave in a Huff.

(0:04) Intro

(2:22) How to Start a New Country.

(9:03) Minimum Necessary Innovation.

(10:21) What Counts as a New Country?

(13:11) Most Countries are Small Countries.

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by Balaji Srinivasan.

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Steps:

1) Found a startup society.

A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.

by Balaji Srinivasan.

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(0:00) Title

(0:14) 3 Opening Quotes

(1:28) Lies

(2:22) Truth

(3:17) Technology

(6:30) Markets

(13:34) The Techno-Capital Machine

(16:04) Intelligence

(18:25) Energy

(21:39) Abundance

(25:10) Not Utopia, but Close Enough

(26:04) Becoming Technological Supermen

(28:46) Technological Values

(32:43) The Meaning of Life

(34:04) The Enemy

(39:40) The Future

(40:40) Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism

We believe:

growth is progress.

everything good is downstream of growth.

not growing is stagnation.

technology is a lever on the world.

this is the story of the material development of our civilization.

this is why our descendents will live in the stars.

that there is no material problem that cannot be solved with more technology.

free markets are the most effective way to organize a technological economy.

the market economy is a discovery machine, a form of intelligence.

Hayek’s Knowledge Problem overwhelms any centralized economic system.

in market discipline.

markets lift people out of poverty.

markets are an inherently individualistic way to achieve superior collective outcomes. 

markets do not require people to be perfect, or even well intentioned.

the ultimate moral defense of markets is that they divert people who otherwise would raise armies and start religions into peacefully productive pursuits.

markets, to quote Nicholas Stern, are how we take care of people we don’t know.

markets are the way to generate societal wealth for everything else we want to pay for.

there is no conflict between capitalist profits and a social welfare system that protects the vulnerable.

central economic planning elevates the worst of us and drags everyone down; markets exploit the best of us to benefit all of us. 

central planning is a doom loop; markets are an upward spiral.

in David Ricardo’s concept of comparative advantage – as distinct from competitive advantage.

a market sets wages as a function of the marginal productivity of the worker.

in Milton Friedman’s observation that human wants and needs are infinite.

markets also increase societal well being by generating work in which people can productively engage.

technological change, far from reducing the need for human work, increases it.

that since human wants and needs are infinite, economic demand is infinite, and job growth can continue forever.

markets are generative, not exploitative; positive sum, not zero sum.

the techno-capital machine of markets and innovation never ends, but instead spirals continuously upward.

in accelerationism – the conscious and deliberate propulsion of technological development.

the techno-capital machine is not anti-human.

the cornerstone resources of the techno-capital upward spiral are intelligence and energy.

intelligence is the ultimate engine of progress.

intelligence is in an upward spiral.

we are poised for an intelligence takeoff that will expand our capabilities to unimagined heights.

Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone.

Artificial Intelligence is best thought of as a universal problem solver.

Artificial Intelligence can save lives.

any deceleration of AI will cost lives.

in Augmented Intelligence just as much as we believe in Artificial Intelligence.

Augmented Intelligence drives marginal productivity which drives wage growth which drives demand which drives the creation of new supply.

energy should be in an upward spiral.

energy need not expand to the detriment of the natural environment.

a second energy silver bullet is coming – nuclear fusion.

there is no inherent conflict between the techno-capital machine and the natural environment.

technology is the solution to environmental degradation and crisis.

a technologically stagnant society has limited energy at the cost of environmental ruin.

we should place intelligence and energy in a positive feedback loop, and drive them both to infinity.

we should use the feedback loop of intelligence and energy to make everything we want and need abundant.

The idea of nature and ultimately philosophy itself is argued then, through Nietzsche, to arise out of a primitive understanding of nature as breeding or biology. Accordingly a second and closely related contribution of this thesis is a novel reading of Pindar: the concept of nature is seen to have its origin in the political regime of Archaic Greek aristocracy, and indeed to represent an abstraction or “distillation” of the standard underlying the aristocratic regime.

The “anthropology” of this ancient philosophy based on “aristocratic prejudice” is precisely what leads to “mass training” and “eugenics”--Kojeve here uses markedly Nietzschean language and imagery. He says the problem, given the ancient conception of nature, is not of good or evil, but of “healthy or sick, wild or trained.”

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the philosopher as such is concerned with nothing but the quest for wisdom and kindling or nourishing the love of wisdom in those who are by nature capable of it.