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The Fixer, Definition(s) ~ Bến Tre ~ DOGE by Joe Nocera Legacy by Michelle Goldberg Incuriosity by Kristin du Mez DOGE by Gabe Kaminsky ~
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Vagaries of Self
Imperative On Selfhood On the Socratic Injunction: Know Thyself (Wikipedia) Socratic Self Character Become Who You Are On Buried Self A Part of the Self to Save Self-Knowing Knowledge of Self Constancy On the Myth of Self-Knowing Self Search To the Future To the Dual/To the Duel Self-Knowledge Toward Self-Knowledge On Metacognition On Self-Deception Self-Deception (Stanford) Theories of Self-Deception Fake-Out Why Self-Deception? Self-Deception On Individuation Self as Both Individuated and Changing On Self-Consistency Hume On Self-Control Self-Control Self as Fiction / Self as Illusion Narrative Identity (Wikipedia) Fiction Illusion A Story of Seven Selves Cinderella Cult of Self? Cult of Self Identity Trap New Self The New Self of Christianity Mindfulness? Forget Mindfulness! Stop Trying to Find Yourself and Start Faking It A New Me, A Real Me, A True Me, ... True Self ... Becoming True On Genuine Pretending Hans-Georg Moeller, a Philosopher of Genuine Pretending (Intervi...
The Fascist Label
Label Disambiguation The meaning of fascism ranges from a political position that imposes an authority for action where none much exists to a variety of, usually, right-wing political ideologies. Fascism Ideology Dystopia The authoritarian-totalitarian overweening associated with fascism tends to associate it with right-wing, fundamentalist politics, but at the same time, this overweening also serves to move it outside of right-wing politics to the politics of a militaristic state and/or the politics of a police state. Thus, the right-wing association aside, and with an acknowledgment that fascism is not generally associated with left-wing politics, the fascist imposition of authority also marks it as an ideological mode of politics (authoritarian rule, oligarchical rule, rule by committee, ... ) rather than an ideology of the left or the right per se. Bits of History Panic Problem Past The Godfather of Fascism First Fascist? On the Futurist Manifesto and Fascism Futurism The Futurist ...
Proving Human
The Blur of the Endpoint, Ugly Answers, The Absolute Unanswered Leap Closing the Loop on Open-Ended Answers ~ Humanoid Feral Child ~ [Whose][Who's] ~
Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism (Wikipedia) Dictator (Wikipedia) Right-Wing Authoritarianism (Wikipedia) Left-Wing Authoritarianism (Wikipedia) Authoritarian System (Wikipedia) Totalitarianism (Wikipedia) Competitive Authoritarianism Digital Authoritarianism Libertarian versus Authoritarian
Cyber
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Liberalism, Neoliberalism, ...
Henry Luce The American Century (1941) (Brad DeLong) The End of History ... The End of History ... by Francis Fukuyama (Wikipedia) The End of History ... by Francis Fukuyama (Internet Archive) Post-World War II Economics Francis Fukuyama on 2025 Liberalism Liberalism (Wikipedia) Liberalism (Johns Hopkins University) Liberalism without Illusions by William A. Galston The Irrationality of the Political, Part 1, by Cyril H é doin The Irrationality of the Political, Part 2, by Cyril H é doin Death of Liberalism ( Peter Boghossian an d Philip Pilkington ) Fantasy Politics (Peter Boghossian and Philip Pilkington) On Christopher Lasch by Soli Özul Liberalism and Discontents by Francis Fukuyama Liberalism Self-Sabotage by Brian Beutler Liberalism Transforms Plurality (Henry Farrell) Liberalism and the Search for Meaning (Matthew Yglesias) Neoliberalism Neoliberalism (Wikipedia) On the Utility of Neoliberalism (Doomslayer) Noah Smith on the Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism (Yascha Moun...
Math ~ Music
Math and Music Math and Music (Wikipedia) Journal of Math and Music Names James Austin Myer Louis Bouchard Guo-Wei Wei Dmitri Tymoczko Dmitri Tymoczko (Wikipedia) Dmitri Tymoczko Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton) Beyond the Geometry of Music (n-Category Cafe) Dmitri Tymoczko Direction Creativity Numbers Without Office Poetry Music Lovers in Science Hegel Tools Yale Music Archive Looping Video
War
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Math for Biology
Topics Mathematical Structures Arising from Genetics ... (Gromov) Formalization of ... Structures .. . (Gromov) Information in Living Systems (Richard Summers) Entropy and Diversity (Tom Leinster) Dynamic Models ( Sebastian Persson) People Sites Matthew D. Johnston Mihalis Kavousanakis Sindi Lab Sindi Lab Mihalis Kavousanakis Lecture Series Mathematical Modeling
Singular Learning Theory (SLT)
Singular Learning Theory (SLT) Seminar SLT Seminar (Zach Furman) (Begins May 22, 2025) SLT Seminar (GitHub) Overviews Singular Learning Theory (Less Wrong) Timaeus Dan MacKinley Embryology of AI (Cognitive Evolution) On Statistical Methods (Ben Recht) Bayesian Information (Sumio Watanabe) YouTube SLT and AI Safety Sumio Watanabe Sumio Watanabe Singular Learning Theory Algebraic Geometry and Bayesian Statistics Watanabe (The Grey Book) Watanabe (The Green Book) Daniel Murfet Deep Learning Metauni Jesse Hoogland Andrew Critch Andrew Critch Shaowei Lin Relative Information A View from Algebraic Geometry Liam Carroll Distilling Singular Learning Theorem Joar Skalse Criticism Related Topics Geometry Information Geometry Machine Learning On the Bayesian Nature of Neural Networks (Joar Skalse) Philosophy Occam's Razor (Wikipedia) Ockham's Razor and the Allure of Simplicity The Tyranny of Occam's Razor Singular Learning Theory, Some History Singular Learning Theory Seminar (2011) S...