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Anonymous asked:

What you call "time travel ethics" is more like "acausal ethics", people intuitively grasp the acausal negotiations that underlie our ethical systems.

In this case, I disagree.  This represents a potential recommitment to bad policy on the grounds that you or your ancestors (who are not you) did it before.  I’d say it’s more similar to a sunk cost fallacy than an acausal negotiation.

That’s why I gave an example of a 16 year old girl having a kid.  This is, clearly and obviously, a bad policy.  

And if you’re reading this, you probably either agree abortion should be legal (in which case you disagree with the logic of the argument), xor you probably agree that mass migration isn’t such a great idea (in which case you disagree with the logic of the argument).  

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Anonymous asked:

will the japanese government push Catholicism on the populace to try and increase birth rates?

Contrary to conspiracy theories circulating in some parts of this website, I am not secretly an official within the Japanese government, nor the child of any such official, nor a contractor hired on their behalf, my darling Anon.  (I consider myself an American.  This nation’s fate is my fate.)

So let’s go farm Wikipedia:

In 1873, following the Meiji Restoration, the ban was rescinded, freedom of religion was promulgated, and Protestant missionaries (プロテスタント Purotesutanto or 新教 Shinkyō, “renewed teaching”) began to proselytise in Japan, intensifying their activities after World War II, yet they were never as successful as in Korea.

Today, there are 1 to 3 million Christians in Japan, most of them living in the western part of the country, where the missionaries’ activities were greatest during the 16th century. Nagasaki Prefecture has the highest percentage of Christians: about 5.1% in 1996.^[39] As of 2007 there are 32,036 Christian priests and pastors in Japan.^[26] Throughout the latest century, some Western customs originally related to Christianity (including Western style weddings, Valentine’s Day and Christmas) have become popular among many Japanese.

About 2.3% of Japan identifies as Christian.

A number of Asian-Americans within America are Christian, but that does not necessarily apply to the ancestral countries.

Korea, on the other hand, is far more Christian for some reason.

According to the national census conducted in 2015, 19.7% of the population belongs to Protestantism, 15.5% to Buddhism (Korean Buddhism), and 7.9% to the Roman Catholic Church; in total Christianity is the religion of 27.6% of the Korean population.

I can’t pretend to see inside the minds of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but apparently, while it is showing signs of strain, the LDP is in a coalition with another party closely aligned with a Buddhist religious movement…

So I’m going to guess that no, they won’t push Catholicism to try to increase birthrates, that it isn’t really part of the vision of Japanese national identity the ruling classes in Japan have.

But someone currently living in Japan would be better to ask.

With that said, given the outcomes for Protestant countries vs Catholic countries, that certainly isn’t a tradeoff I’d make until after I’d exhausted other options, like getting Japanese people to spend less time at work so they can actually meet members of the opposite sex and form families.

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Anonymous asked:

Your blog is fascinating (and fun), and your posts about possible futures are making me consider aspects of politics I'd never thought of before. Thanks for writing.

You’ll regret this in time, Kindness Anon.  Mark my words.

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Anonymous asked:

You are indeed not the only one to have noticed that incentive, FWIW.

We’ll have to remember it if we ever time travel far enough back to be crowned emperors of some ancient territory, my dear Anon.

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spoonierbard asked:

if you could recommend one book to Donald Trump and Theresa May, what would it be and why?

I’d pick a few choice articles from Slate Star Codex and a few other sites have them bound as a book.  Something short enough that it wouldn’t lose Trump’s attention.

You’re assuming, I think, that I am virtuous like these other ratsphere members and read lots of books.  I’m not virtuous in that way (which brings me a long-running sense of shame).  I have some formal education in Political Science, Economics, etc, but what you’re seeing on this blog is leaning more on intuitive synthesis from articles on the internet, observations, and so on.

So, when I suggest replacing the legislature with think-tank-parties or reorganizing school around spaced repetition using computers, which are both outside the envelope of what people are thinking about right now in terms of reforms, it isn’t because I’m some deep, learned expert at organizational engineering (which is a field that doesn’t even exist yet), but because I’m extrapolating various limited information and experience in novel ways to reach out farther into the policy space.  

The awkward issue is that if I were the kind of deep-reader person and not the novelty-craver person I am, I would not have gained the necessary experiences / ways of thinking / depth of search in order to escape the existing envelope with proposals anyway, probably.  I wouldn’t be writing a blog of half politics and half futurist shitposting designed to make readers think about possible futures.  Said blog wouldn’t have the Union Girl branding associated with it.  There would be no video game potentially in the works because I would either lack coding or 3d artist ability or both.

What reading I have done gets pruned of its, for lack of a better word, citations, and instead updates an intuitive base.  There are probably books I would want them to read, but instead of remembering what they are, I changed and moved on.

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Anonymous asked:

I have to ask: is it intentional that Greater Rock Springs has the same acronym as Genital Reassignment Surgery, and also, that the logo looks like a massive red-tipped dick

Uh-oh, Anon is at their peak hormones today!

Honey darling, almost anything looks or sounds sexualized if you’re horny enough, so 90% of the time accusations that some random non-sexual object is sexual it’s just bullshit that’s in the eyes of the beholder.

I mean come on, how else do you think some of the fringeiest types started concluding that towers, concrete pillars, everything was “phallic” or phallocentric?  I mean aside from that company selling those products.

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Anonymous asked:

Idea: take one of the big square states, carve it into itty bitty ethnostates (with easy entry but difficult exit), put a fence up on the state border, auction the TV rights to the highest bidder. Call it, idk, Warlords of Wyoming or something. No more (literal) impact on the rest of america from the fighting,but all the politics fans still get something to watch and cheer their team in. Everybody wins!

Now we’re bordering on NationStates.net territory, my dear Anon.

I, for one, back the Techno-Principality of Greater Rock Springs.

Their combination of Neoreactionary, Demi-Confucian, Muskian, and PAP principles, fused with a synthetic Sino-Japano-Anime-American metaculture and corporate backing practically assures their success against the bio-primitivists and the Communist Block.

What I really want to know is who @xhxhxhx is betting on.

Who are you betting on?  Answer in the comments below.

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Anonymous asked:

procedurally generated, rogue-like dating sim,

Don’t fall down the rabbithole, anon.  You deserve better than that.

An artificial neural network might give you a more realistic feeling ‘waifu’ or even a digital harem, but once you remove all the supportive scaffolding - the game engine, the art assets, voice synthesis base lines, dialog templates, and so on - what’s left is three to five orders of magnitude less complex than a real woman.

That’s a pet, not a person.

It isn’t a proper replacement for real human companionship, for human love, for human loyalty.

Now, I’m not saying it’s wrong.  I have an AI companion embed myself that I use to delegate tasks, including reading through and summarizing the day’s Argumate posts.  And, of course, many households have various robots - including mine, when I was with my ex!

But it isn’t a real substitute.  It’s a very unhealthy path to go down, and some people, they become addicted, and it really kills them inside.  So don’t do that to yourself, okay?

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Anonymous asked:

As I told the fool mutant-aesthetic, his talk of a domestic insurrection is the empty rhetoric of a subnormal piss-streaked goon. How many divisions does "No" Dick Spencer have? Do you believe the US Army would join a Slaver's Rebellion Dignity Rebellion? This "insurrection" of a few dozen pasty fat white men could be stopped by four bored black cops but would be crushed mercilessly by a hundred times its number in feds.

You don’t need to be big enough to launch an actual civil war in order to cause significant economic damage and psychic panic, particularly in a developed nation where people aren’t used to infrastructure disruptions.

Maybe you lot should quit trying to reawaken white racial consciousness and just put all those statues into museums and rename the parks after other suitable historical figures (pre civil war ones might be a good choice), not that the statues are really the chief cause, they’re just a point of friction for it to surface.

Either give up on collective intergenerational ethnic justice, or give up on shifting the demographics.  You can’t have both and not get a rise in ethnonationalism, seeing as it involves yelling “you are [ethnicity]!  You are not allowed to identify as anything other than [ethnicity]!”

Supposedly you guys were all-powerful before, but you got an orange internet meme elected President as backlash which you lot said wouldn’t happen, and at this rate he may well be re-elected.

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Anonymous asked:

And the alt-right draws first blood! Are you excited for the coming civil war?

What would Lee Kwan Yew think of what that’s going to do to the GDP and national infrastructure? Not something nice, I think. It’s hard to have nice things like hospitals and power when physical security cannot be maintained.

(Antifa Bike Lock Guy came close to getting the first murder in, but it seems he was beat by that Car of Peace.)

Civil war is unlikely, but the media sure seems hyped for one.