And I’d like to suggest one of the slate star codex essays that had the biggest impact on how I think about politics and arguments—the important idea I took from it is thinking of their being a general factor of positive or negative feeling towards big concepts and seemingly irrelevant arguments are actually about making us feel better or worse towards that group:
New Budapest Meetup
As usual this will be at my apartment, on Sat Feb 12, 2-6 pm
Ulloi 66/b/1
Ring 27
6th floor, door 3
We have a cat and a dog
I have two suggested readings for this week:
Richard offered this bit of fun speculation about the evolutionary implications if there was a pill for immortality, and only some people took it:
https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/second-order-selection-against-the-immortal
And I’d like to suggest one of the slate star codex essays that had the biggest impact on how I think about politics and arguments—the important idea I took from it is thinking of their being a general factor of positive or negative feeling towards big concepts and seemingly irrelevant arguments are actually about making us feel better or worse towards that group:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/