Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
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Engineer and essayist: @palladiummag, @mansworldmag_, @im_1776, @unherd, @AntigoneJournal, @TheSideViewCo. Classics, political philosophy, governance futurism.
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined October 2012
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There’s a very Soviet vibe to a guy who was hounded out of the company he founded because of exactly the dynamics Andrews describes being like "But is it true, really? What’s the evidence?" Man, what an awful life that must be.
What’s frustrating about the Andrews “great feminization” essay is that it’s clearly true that the influx of large numbers of women into roles with social power is a big deal whose consequences deserve a serious treatment that’s not full of blatantly false assertions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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“You guys told naughty jokes in a gc, so you must be purged.”
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It is the limitation of the worst antagonistic minds, following a juvenile understanding of philosophy, that they think everything uttered in conversation has to be an argument and so everything not an argument must therefore be identified as a fallacy.
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Lead exposure pervaded primate evolution and interacted with genetic background, with the archaic NOVA1 variant showing reduced resilience that altered FOXP2 neurons and may have shaped language and social behavior. Researchers mapped metal uptake in 51 fossil teeth from Africa,
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Hey @Disney ! I just thought I'd point out the obvious: You can build nuclear reactors in Disneyworld to power as many data centers as you might want. Easy extra trillion to U.S. GDP. You can even partner with Sora or Grok to make Disney branded AI content. You're welcome.
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@bronzeagemantis @Steve_Sailer Loved those films. “When you're an egoist, none of the harm you ever do is intentional.” –– Metropolitan
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@pmarca It was truly a harbinger, and Brendan was a model of how to handle it at a personal level.
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@ByrneHobart It's a nice question. I think about it a lot. - Money - Derivatives - Qualia - Quarks - Qubits
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Reminder that hundreds of churches were burned down in Canada over a claim about residential graves that "yielded no remains." They even made a national holiday of rememberance over it!
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Avalon House has a room open Nov 1st - December 15th (end date is quite flexible, could be Jan 1st). 4800 Sq. Ft. mansion in twin peaks, some of the best events in SF. Rent is 2950$/month which includes utilities/basic groceries/etc. Home of the @AvalonInst. DM if interested!
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"Trust the plan, but always chimp" is a comprehension of divine law so perfect it has evaporated atheism and all its effects, we're just not fully seeing it yet.
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The Australian government is systematically destroying ancient human fossils key to understanding the evolutionary heritage of us all, because activists of often mostly European ancestry have appropriated prehistoric cultures. Read the new article by @MungoManic (link below):
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Technology: Theory-Driven Experimentation and Combinatorial Salience https://t.co/SzPLoAME3d
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Combinatorial innovation depends not on random tinkering but on theory-laden human action that generates salience for useful combinations. Humans identify promising elements and configurations through theorizing, causal reasoning, and experimentation, which act as a
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