Ha! Before reading the post, and not knowing how Thiel gave his performance, I would have said (and still think) that, for Thiel, the Antichrist is a role model. An economist I worked with for a long time used to talk about Moby Dick with a wistful expression, clearly viewing Captain Ahab as the hero.
Eric > On Aug 27, 2026, at 2:48, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's been awhile since we talked about the flaws of steelmanning ... a > sub-category of the fallacy fallacy, I think. This post was fantastic. The > OP's gymnastics blew me away. > > https://www.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/comments/1vynnza/why_would_peter_thiel_be_interested_in_the/ > > I think it's wrong. But it's really good ... degenerate in a way ... an > expression of schematic thought. How many ways can the free variables in a > schematic sentence be filled in such that the sentence (and the language that > houses it) can remain consistent? > > I was again piqued by "anacyclosis" and the stability of types of government. > In a recent Zoom, a colleague DMed me asking when all this peri-Trump > nonsense was going to end (especially the perversion of institutions like the > NIH). My answer was to keep their shoulder to the wheel, that hard/steady > work reliably wins the competition against bullshit. But I'm not hundy on > that, of course, because I'm a dyed in the wool skeptic. Diversity > facilitates resilience. And I'm either running out of ways to understand > diversity. Or it's steadily decreasing in every domain I'm aware of, from > music to bugs in the yard. Even *when* there's diversity in political > opinions, most of my friends hide behind litmus tests of some kind or another. > > E.g. when discussing certain forbidden words, my woke friends insistently > claimed they would NEVER use one of the words. I spent about 2 hours trying > to repeat "Never say never" over and over again in a variety of different > ways. They came away convinced i'm some kind of crypto-nazi or somesuch. > That's fine. I'll take the reputational hit. But then, literally, about a > week later, one of the friends in that argument confessed to having an > affair. And our argument about never say never happened *right before* his SO > found out about it. They recalled a time prior to the affair where they > thought they were immune to such temptations. Now they realize how unstable > they were before the affair. If you think you're incapable of evolving into > some thing (e.g. pro-genocide or whatever), you should think again. The only > thing that has any chance of preventing such is diversity of thought. > > Anyway, this paper might be interesting to some of us, here: > > Political science meets physical science: The shared concept of stability > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fdoi.org%2f10.1093%2fpnasnexus%2fpgad401&c=E,1,mJ7jmavPHm3x7M3BBETHh77x668skOey-Ymopuj16rccQ8qfzFfRMcaHJQgydOw9nFXm6TfgCrUdJJWXs30RYZmlnW4uLjPufRzOWWsWK6XkNl0,&typo=1 > > Would be more interesting if the authors are not related. But I haven't > looked 'em up. > > -- > 8647 ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα σώσω. > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... > --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbit.ly%2fvirtualfriam&c=E,1,AE__qeBPF3hGJ3gwRgw2ycnhsurbEhWTfE_nvBeNioZCU8ldmvNgi88GxaLQ4QXDq7GdRBNu8Hqczvlm-ltNlc4ybCDlCKwZ71lqByWS6e2UvbI9jdU1M5NHyztz&typo=1 > to (un)subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,BcgZqNyckBG-EX4ncqQa1Pi3G6Nkog8ZZU5b99V2zFq4E9M6K6IdG4uGzfIhmuecpyI3upfXqFpTDkUs9CAaejC45VIYuIR3e6EzFJnQNbPi6SptrMO49dSCVA,,&typo=1 > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,LJOpYdWG7opI2osInEEzFKcuVpd59Sjnf4bDsnVlYJDpjqbr29H4mh63cm6nBzR3wg65QjnGziyRGFEVLEIO0yCGntZL8fkdDr9N-_GQDo7Jerv4xlkExMYY&typo=1 > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fpipermail%2ffriam_redfish.com%2f&c=E,1,D6W7CfnhoVxvf6e51a88Cxou7G5znJN8kKbO6bdW2k95cmhuMtBIDrt2Mmclgqw3Jn6qr7ErOf-GganvxJy7z7afOwmR7bT_O0rvmN3oqbcTM8SLoB0gHU2p3SI0&typo=1 > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
