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@gokhan
really this place is dead but i like it yet our decentralized overlords keep shilling their own popup city social media aggregator friends' third party apps but it's ok since they are not retard demsoc commies but "another public goods"
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@gokhan
I created a "play money" prediction market on Manifold Markets re: the future of the Farcaster official front-end/ client asking if the official Farcaster client (formerly Warpcast) permanently cease as a social media platform by Dec 31, 2026?
https://manifold.markets/gokhan/will-the-official-farcaster-client?r=Z29raGFu
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@leovido.eth
I've been practicing something powerful from Arthur Brooks: recursively asking "why."
Pick anything in your life: your daily habits, career choices, why you're in web3, why you ape into memecoins, even why you're on Farcaster.
Keep asking "why" until you find something fundamental.
Why do you want that burger? Just pleasure, or something deeper?
Why do you procrastinate? Maybe it's your inner self telling you it's time to reassess what you actually want from this one and only life.
What I'm learning is, that when you keep digging, you eventually hit beliefs formed in your teens, that are still relevant in your life.
Most of us are living on autopilot, driven by motives we've never examined, or avoid.
The practice, is simple, but not easy. It takes time. It shifts perspective from living by accident to living with purpose, "on purpose".
What happens when you ask why about being here, in this moment, building in web3/crypto?
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@seanhart
Just finished Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed, and I can't emphasize enough how terrible of a book this is. Keep in mind that it has heavily influenced the PostLiberal Right's ideology (the Conservatives currently in power). He hates both Progressive Liberalism as well as Classical Liberalism (free markets, democracy, etc).
He spends 250 pages complaining about modern consumerism (a valid complaint) and blaming it on individualistic societies that allow people to live how they wish. His conclusion is essentially to advocate for a society with mandated community and enforced hardship, since he believes that some type of asceticism is the only true form of freedom and individuals cannot be trusted to create their own communities.
He identifies real atomization of society, but his only alternatives are social arrangements that historically required either geographic immobility, religious monopoly, or state enforcement (i.e. authoritarianism of some type), but he never honestly states this outright even though his argument is obvious.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300240023/why-liberalism-failed/
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@gokhan
Astral Codex Ten 2026 Prediction Contest is live through January 17 on Metaculus, fyi. The prize pool is 10k.
https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/ACX2026/
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@hyp
I was today years old when I found out i am a scientific anti-realist.
All we can ever have are mental models. Models are always imperfect, by nature they have to be.
https://youtu.be/BNRV1Py2h-I?si=aqNY2wDvMC13QZAh
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@gokhan
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eKGdCNdKjvTBG9i6y/toss-a-bitcoin-to-your-lightcone-lw-lighthaven-s-2026
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@gokhan
There are "reasonably" knowledgeable developers and programmers and autodidact savants tech-savvy enough to help this deep funding program to evaluate Ethereum-adjacent repositories. You should spare 10-20 minutes in my humble opinion.
https://x.com/devanshmehta/status/2001332858271780897?s=20
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@gokhan
haven't checked BAP for a long time but i think he rather has a good critique of Jason Savage's DEI article on Compact magazine regarding the systemic discrimination against certain while male demographics in the last ~10 years.
it's kind of vibrating with Cofnas' "wokism" diagnosis, and "elite" by another name recipe, too. yet, i can definitely say it also vibes with Scott's "Against Against Boomerism", too
ps: Don't ask me "how" now. I am working on a totally out of context essay as tangential to these matters where i'll touch these voices' nuances.
but i need to finish hanania and rufo books first.
however, you should indeed write your takes however ruthless they are below please.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bronzeagepervert/p/compact-lost-generation-dei-article?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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