Could you please post this on Fanfiction.net, AO3, or cross-posted to r/rational or r/hpmor? I’m really enjoying this story but its hard to get notified when you post a new update. Also, this is great and deserves more eyeballs on it.
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On the having a shoulder Duncan, I explicitly tried to do this upon listening to you being interviewed by Spencer Greenberg. Sadly, digital Duncan doesn’t exist in large enough quantities to emulated. So for those of us that don’t happen to live (I assume) in the Bay Area, can Duncan increase how many podcast or video’s he’s on? Having a shoulder Duncan sounds really useful to a large number of people you interact with and enlarging that pool purposely seems to be a pretty good idea. Food for thought?
Was extremely enjoyable. Any plans for more?
Had an awesome meetup. If anyone wanted to meet but just didn’t get the chance, you’re welcome to join the newly minted discord server: https://discord.gg/4A4qHh52Ep
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Host was transferred to me. Bird park and same time, yadda, yadda. Nothing should change. See you there!
Hey! Connor here. I’ll be willing to host if you really can’t. Just send me all the “host” information I should know about and thing such as that. Mainly just private message me and we’ll go from there. (either through less wrong or connordpitts@gmail.com) Cheers!
Short of “a foreign power or going bankrupt.” Germany was forced to pay for all damages that occurred during WW1. They were pretty bankrupt as countries go. And then the great depression happened. So I think Germany counts as democratic backsliding on account of “going bankrupt.” And it doesn’t claim all democracies. Just democracies that reach a large enough numbers of keys.
Huh. I found your forecasting newsletter via LessWrong, and then subscribed to the substack’s RSS feed? Which probably made me less likely to open it/see it in LessWrong? Dunno. Maybe your LessWrong traffic moved to substack? (sample size=1)
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Yeah. Why I said “generally.” Obviously if you emulate Stalin bad things will happen. Slightly off topic but I’d say those leader’s weren’t “unconstrained” and revealed something about human nature, but were constrained as any ruler and had to follow the Dictator’s Handbook to stay in power.
No. For whatever reason, on the backend it says 1:00 pm. It just says GMT and either you can’t change that, or I haven’t found out how. (So it’s at 1 pm, a more sane time )
All set. I got transferred to host. Nothing should change. Though tbh, it shouldn’t matter much. It’s mainly just a shelling point. I’m sure even if Jessie did nothing someone would show up. But yeah. See you there!
I notice that you cite Freedom House, and Richard Hanania goes into why that NGO in particular is pretty institutionally captured and a biased source. Citing Freedom house is akin to circular reasoning or is too close for comfort with regards to the question of “Democracy”. (link) Also, for better or worse every institution of the US is very liberal, including the government (link) so it’s hard to imagine how in any real sense the US could become an actual right wing dictatorship.
Furthermore,”The Dictator’s Handbook” actually researches this exact question, with an eye toward selectorate theory, on how stable democracies vs dictatorships are, and actually digs into the numbers on this. And the punchline is that if you actually look, once you get past a certain threshold of keys, needed to obtain or stay in power, Democracies become very, very, very stable. And that in the entire history of democracies, no democracy past that threshold has ever backslid into dictatorships, short of being conquered by a foreign power or going completely bankrupt. (It goes without saying the US is well past this point)