Do what you must and pay the price if you're wrong. Sometimes if you're right too.
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Natural Rights aren't abstract.
No one, not even an all powerful sovereign king, can remove from me my Right to speak without suppressing my natural ability to speak.
The fact that physical force is necessary proves this, because it is post-hoc.
Permission is of God, not man.
He is Correct.
For context, Woodrow Wilson based much of his Progressive political framework not on the Founding Fathers whom he refuted but instead based on German Idealism, in particular Hegelianism (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel).
The very same Hegel and German Idealism which produced Communism (Karl Marx) and Fascism (Giovanni Gentile)/Nazism.
So yes American Progressivism comes from the exact same intellectual lineage as Communism and Fascism.
Hegelian Progressive Statism (collectivism) is where the concept of the Constitution as a “living organism” is derived.
Here is how Woodrow Wilson really felt about the “nonsense” that are the inalienable rights of the individual.
Compute ≠ scientific discovery
New principles = scientific discovery
Discovery is not some linear progression, where we just gradually unlock steps over time.
It is more akin to a Skill Tree, where the tree gets unlocked, and now there are new skills to learn.
The data centers will get built.
Compute will be brought online.
The rockets will launch.
Autonomous cars will ship.
Orbital networks will scale.
Science will advance.
Diseases will be cured.
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From here, most of our growth will be innovative, not inventive. Really cool engineering can make our current tech even better, such as fuel-cooled aluminum (the butter of metals) rocket engines. Robots even. But these are not inventive. Both rockets and robots are old hat now.
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I believe this is folly. Enamored with material success, we rejected something that is much simpler: that there is more to reality than matter.
In fact, I think it is science that has divorced itself from human nature, and we will begin hitting hard walls because of it.
"Philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics."
- Stephen Hawking
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Another reason we *might* be alone in the universe, at present, is that we may just simply be first movers.
The universe is still relatively young.
We might just be the "Ring Builders" from The Expanse.
If so, then the "Goths" might just be us too. A long time from now.
THE FERMI PARADOX HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
for sixty years you have been sold a mystery. the universe is huge, the stars are old, somebody should have called by now, and the silence demands an explanation.
three researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford went to check the arithmetic under the product.
what was in the old packaging: one number plugged into each slot of the Drake equation. a single value for the share of planets where life starts, a single value for the share where intelligence appears. point estimates.
the trouble is that our knowledge of those quantities is smeared across orders of magnitude. you cannot be uncertain by a factor of a billion and then write down one number for it.
so Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord fed in the whole spread of the uncertainty instead. they ran it twice, once from their own reading of the science, once from the range of published estimates in the astrobiology literature.
the output:
> probability we are alone in the Milky Way: from about half to near certainty
> probability we are alone in the observable universe: from about 40 to 85 percent
at those numbers the silence stops being strange. nothing is missing from the sky. no paradox left to explain, and no Great Filter needed to explain it.
i went in expecting to find the trick, because a paper that deletes a famous problem usually has one. what i came out with is a complaint about method. one number written where a range belongs, repeated for sixty years.
the fine print, and i am the one insisting on it. these are probabilities under the distributions the authors picked, so change the assumptions and the numbers move. the paper measures how little we know and it does not prove that nobody is out there. what it takes away is your right to be surprised that nobody has called.
link in the comments
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Same ego that makes them think everyone agrees with them when they win.
Idk, children brain I guess.
People generally don't understand how things scale.
Protip: it's not usually linear.
Meaning, cheating at the level to flip as much as was flipped requires far more than typical cheating scams.
It would be impossible to miss.
The truth is that the Republicans got btfo'd.
Also, it is ridiculous to believe that a statewide election in a place like Texas could be stolen by Democrats. Remember that Republicans were in charge of the whole state government at the time of the election, and most of the counties in TX are also Republican-run. I do not believe that hundreds of Republican officials throughout the state colluded to steal the election for Democrats, and nobody said a peep about such a scheme. It defies any understanding of how government works.
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I told y'all, do not be surprised if we wind up with an AOC president.
But by all means. Play away.
BREAKING: AOC now projected to announce a 2028 presidential run over a Senate bid following Democrats' sweeping midterms victories.
54% chance.
🔗 polymarket.com/r/AOC28
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Not only that, but it's theater.
If you think legislatures are going to jump during the winter break right after an absolute bitch-slapping, you're nuts.
This isn't happening. It's make believe. It's what you do for clicks.
The battle was just lost and will remain so. Retool.
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At my school, the entire chemistry degree program was geared towards getting you ready for Pchem 1 (thermo).
To get there, you had to take all the other lower level courses, calc 1&2 + Differential Equations.
However, I chose the "easy" path and took Calc 3 instead.
😃🔫
Also, fun fact about me, Inorganic Chemistry was the course in which I got the highest grade in the class on the ACS Exam (well, tied for it), which is absolutely bonkers cause those tests are insane.
Not as insane as Pchem 1 though. But not even Pchem 2 is as crazy as that.
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