This week, we’re joined by Warg Franklin and Anton Silensky for a discussion on Donald Trump, the teleology of action, and the antiversity.
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Notes:
2:21 – Can’t Stump the Trump!
10:51 – Could Trump consolidate executive power?
23:36 – A “culture first” approach does not work
32:00 – The teleology of action independent of sentiment
42:36 – Leftist Power Words that suppress real social science
51:40 – The Antiversity: dedicated to the production of Truth
1:05:43 – Observation as basis for Antiversity social science
1:17:57 – The stunning power of real social science
1:26:06 – Profiting from Truth and overcoming the problem of scale
1:45:28 – Out of Left Field question
Related Show Links:
Music:
Opening – “Memories” by Silence Kingdom (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/365055/memories
Closing – “Summertime” by Al J
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/554758/summertime
Trump’s Immigration Troll
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
Pregnancy is the new shooting yourself in the foot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560032/The-maternity-military-How-nearly-100-female-soldiers-sent-home-Afghan-frontline-getting-pregnant.html
Moldbug’s first Antiversity post
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/10/gentle-introduction-to-unqualified.html
Overview of Aristotle and constitutions
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/
Distance from Harvard
https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/distance-from-harvard/
Global Existential Risk (lots of possibilities!)
http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html
Picture of the New Balance Royal Caribbean
http://bit.ly/1Vt3lDE
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