Memetic Engineer on Memetic Engineering and Fitness
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Homeless and $10 million net worth aren't opposite ends of one distribution, they're both outside it, and neither one tells you anything about how anyone else in the country actually lives
The checklist has amnesia, and so does everyone sharing it
Some people just take sixty years. A response to the tech commentators announcing, breathlessly, that we're leaving the "humanist era" for a world where value has to be earned.
Twenty-one years ago I wrote that no cause is noble enough to sacrifice your children to. A scene in the back of a Maybach just answered me back, honestly, for the first time.
Humanity's worst negotiating mistake was believing we're owed payment for existing, instead of for producing. The data backs the correction, not the myth.
Race war, class war, election: the same math problem three ways. The group being targeted for overthrow isn't a fragile minority elite. It's the actual majority.
Swap one word for another in the most famous sentence ever written, and the whole argument about AI, art, and language changes.
I didn't find out I have aphantasia until I was fifty. Here's what that actually feels like, and why I've spent decades backing my mind up to every platform that would hold it.
I write two or three articles a day now with an AI copilot, after twenty years of writing alone and unread. Here's why I don't think that makes what I'm doing any less mine.
How Radical Chic Became a Majority Lifestyle
Everybody’s a squish. Everything else is cultural.
FDR wrote a second Bill of Rights in 1944, died before he could fight for it, and his widow carried it into the UN. Here's why the word "rights" has been doing two different jobs ever since.
