A Thought Experiment: Designing New CountriesLet’s - for fun - imagine building a brand-new country from scratch. Or maybe not just one, but a handful of different ones, each exploring a different philosophy of how humans could live together.What would they look like? How would they behave? What values would they be built on? If we were free of the rampant corruption, historical baggage, and accidental compromises of centralized power that shaped today’s nations, how could we do better?Start With

καὶ γὰρ τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ συμφέρον ἡδὺ φαίνεται. ἔτι δ' ἐκ νηπίου πᾶσιν ἡμῖν συντέθραπται· διὸ χαλεπὸν ἀπο-τρίψασθαι τοῦτο τὸ πάθος ἐγκεχρωσμένον τῷ βίῳ. κανονίζομεν δὲ καὶ τὰς πράξεις, οἳ μὲν μᾶλλον οἳ δ' ἧττον, ἡδονῇ καὶ λύπῃ. διὰ τοῦτ' οὖν ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι περὶ ταῦτα τὴν πᾶσαν πραγματείαν· οὐ γὰρ μικρὸν εἰς τὰς πράξεις εὖ ἢ κακῶς χαίρειν καὶ λυπεῖσθαι.

The revelation patterns exposed this week - from becoming an unwitting mirror to recognizing the false priests among us. The painful gift of clear sight that comes with sovereignty. Why coherence destabilizes every system built on compromise. The smaller, lonelier, but infinitely more real world that emerges when you stop pretending and others can no longer pretend around you. How the mirror strips away the false but attracts the true.

This is a link post. It turns out that airlines largely do not make their from from selling tickets. Instead, airlines are primarily in the business of selling credit card rewards. Rewards programs are intangible assets, so the financials statements of major airlines do not generally give valuations for them. However, there are a couple public sources for how valuable these rewards programs are: During COVID, many US major airlines applied for loans under the CARES Act. Some of them used their

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Context: The EU is currently considering introducing a ban on companies in Europe from using terms like ‘meat’, ‘steak’, ‘burger’, ‘sausage’, et cetera in plant based food labels. The proposal would also restrict the use of meat related terms for future cultivated meat products yet to enter the market. Similar measures had previously been debated in 2020, but these were ultimately voted against due to widespread negative attention in the international press. There is a possibility that the ban

There's a bit of an implicit norm that has accumulated over the past few years, but inconsistently, and AFAICT no one has publicly argued for it. Sometimes, when arguing online, you will notice yourself going into a mode that is more like a rant than like careful arguing. Or, you know is not really passing your interlocutor's Intellectual Turing Test. Or, you know is psychologizing someone, and there's decent odds you're wrong (perhaps only in a subtle way that isn't core to your point but is

Here are some things I learned over the last year that past me would have found somewhat non-obvious or that were surprising to me at the time: New genes are usually not evolved from scratch one basepair at a time. The first evolutionary biology textbook that I picked up after learning that textbooks are the fast way to learn talked about some basic math for how traits spread through a population once they evolve, depending on their fitness both in asexual and sexual reproduction

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit reflectorsreflections.substack.comSeason 2. Episode 38. In today’s video:* start to 2:46: 4%: The Documentary That Could Change Everything for Human Design* 2:46 to end: The Neutrino Weather 20 - 27 September See Human Design and Therapy series here:Contemplation of the week.I just returned from the Human Design conference in Oslo — an incredibly warm and enriching experience that deepened my understanding of the experiment. I’m excited

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This is a link post. This is a recorded series of lectures and homework assignments discussions on the topic of statistical learning theory, co-organized by Gergely Szucs (@Yegreg) and Alex Flint (@Alex Flint). The homework assignments are available here, and lecture notes are available here. The lectures are intended for those who want to do research on the learning-theoretic agenda and need to catch-up on the necessary background knowledge. As complementary resources, consider looking into my MATS

γένοιτο δ' ἂν ἡμῖν καὶ ἐκ τούτων φανερὸν ὅτι περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν. τριῶν γὰρ ὄντων τῶν εἰς τὰς αἱρέσεις καὶ τριῶντῶν εἰς τὰς φυγάς, καλοῦ συμφέροντος ἡδέος, καὶ τῶν ἐναντίων, αἰσχροῦ βλαβεροῦ λυπηροῦ, περὶ ταῦτα μὲν πάντα ὁ ἀγαθὸς κατορθωτικός ἐστιν ὁ δὲ κακὸς ἁμαρτητικός, μάλιστα δὲ περὶ τὴν ἡδονήν· κοινή τε γὰρ αὕτη τοῖς ζῴοις, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ὑπὸ τὴν αἵρεσιν παρακολουθεῖ· καὶ γὰρ τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ συμφέρον ἡδὺ φαίνεται.

ὑπόκειται ἄρα ἡ ἀρετὴ εἶναι ἡ τοιαύτη περὶ ἡδονὰς καὶ λύπας τῶν βελτίστων πρακτική, ἡ δὲ κακία τοὐναντίον.

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Mar and Trav rap about challenges and philosophies of modern parenting. They discuss the importance of balancing discipline with understanding, the role of technology in children's lives, and the need to instill hard work and resilience. This dialogue highlights the unique pressures parents face in trying to maximize every opportunity for their children, emphasizing that parenting is a one-time shot without the luxury of rewinding or redoing.Follow @graychillin_ig

Afghanistan, January 2007.It's a piece of military daring that went down in history: Three Royal Marines and a Royal Engineer hold on to the side of Apache attack helicopters, heading into battle to recover a fallen comrade.Those involved in a gripping, almost unbelievable day, tell their story, many speaking for the first time.It begins with British forces, tasked with bringing security to Helmand Province in the South of Afghanistan.But Lieutenant Colonel Rob Magowan commanding the IX Battlegroup