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Update: There is something poetic about this essay on tribalism getting removed from users abusing the flagging system (then restored) after hitting #3 on Hacker News 😆 March 2025 For as much as I enjoy analyzing politics[1], I'm even more against discussing it with friends. This policy arose from three patterns observed over the years: Most people don't have political views, they have political tribes Developing the political reasoning skills to graduate from tribes to views is incredibly di
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Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens became an international bestseller by presenting a view of history driven by the fictions created by mankind. His later work Homo Deus then depicted the a future for mankind brought about by the emergence of superintelligence. His latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI, is a warning against the unparalleled threat of AI. A rising trend of techno-fascism driven by populism and artific
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How do we tell truths that might hurt? Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975 from https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us. If the truths are sufficiently impalatable, our audience is psychically incapable of accepting them and we will be written off as totally unrealistic, hopelessly idea
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