Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "Andrewism" channel.

  1. Part of what makes Orthodoxy so uncomfortable for me is the strong emphasis on obediance to authority as a moral virtue, even when that authority is obviously wrong. They also are opposed to logic and advocate for the abandonment of reason. Their egregore is also pretty obnoxious when it gets in your head, trying to overwrite every rational thought process with pure dogma.
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  2. I'm partial to the Greek myth of the creation of humans: when Epimetheus finished creating all the animals and assigning them natures (e.g. teeth and claws for predators, etc), he realized he hadn't left any nature to assign to humans. Prometheus then put a caterpillar in the human head, symbolizing that human nature is the potential for metamorphosis.
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  3. What do y'all think about liquid democracy? It seems like a very pragmatic step in the right direction, assuming someone gets the code right for running it properly. (On my to-do list, somewhere after I get the component technologies built.)
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  4. A few disconnected thoughts: 1) what is the rhe composition of the minimum viable state? I think it would need to contain mechanisms for which there is broad consensus for the defense of the people against aggression, but I'm not sure how to constrain it to this. Perhaps some technological development regarding decentralized communication/computation systems (not blockchain) could be helpful. 2) what is the optimal pace for social revolution? The examples of rapid social revolution that I am aware of seem to be almost universally bloody and violent, but it would be hard to measure progress on the scale of multiple generations since few would be around to witness it in totality. 3) on the topic of names, would it perhaps be a profitable strategy for married couples to take on a new, traditional name to displace their colonized family names as part of their marriage ceremony? Perhaps they would retain their old names as middle names for the sake of historical continuity while still dedicating themselves to social liberation. (I'm just spitballing here. My heritage is a thorough mix of immigrants and indigenous, but the only name I bear which may have been affected by colonialism is Hill, which was the surname of my mother's father whose grandfather escaped slavery to join the Union army during the Civil War, so there is no shame in bearing the name.)
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  5. I have always had a preference for using hand tools wherever possible, but I must admit that operating an excavator for the first time two days ago was a very fun experience. (One of my friends is preparing his land to build a house on it himself; I mostly carried large rocks and removed palmetto root bulbs with an adze while I was there.)
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  6. Anarchy is the natural state of man, not subjugation to a spirit that can't get its story straight. And the first improvement over anarchy was matriarchy; patriarchy came many hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years later.
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  7. Rittenhouse was being chased by a skinhead pedo and was being shot at by a domestic abuser because he put out a fire that some hooligan had set in an attempt to blow up a gas station where protesters had been gathered by the cops. Perhaps some people have a knee-jerk reaction one way or the other, but anyone who really scrutinized the case knew that Rittenhouse was neither the monster nor the ideological hero he had been portrayed as by the political sides.
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  8. South Africa is a bit more nuanced. The Boers were settlers, yes, but the Voortrekkers were not there to displace the indigenous peoples. They trekked inwards to escape the British rule of Cape Town and set up their own tribes and republics, making deals and treaties with the neighboring tribal nations. (There is a case pending regarding a land claim based upon the historical sale of tribal lands to the Boers by a Zulu king.) The Brits then waged a genocidal campaign of subjugation in South Africa, including the Boers as peoples to be subjugated, after the discovery of gold ore in the lands of the Boer republics. Last time I looked into it, I read that the Brits killed more Boer women and children in concentration camps than they killed black Africans. The Voortrekkers who adopted a semi-nomadic lifestyle may have had some commonalities with indigenous people, though the original Dutch settlers were total bastards, and the Boer republics were established partly out of disgust for the British decree freeing all slaves. (Dutch East Indies Company is the perfect example of the union of capitalism and colonialism in the extractive pursuit of greed. Quite the disaster.) Edit: I reread the history and corrected some factual errors in my original comment.
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  9. Curious about how that 3d printer has held up. From my own experience and that of my friends who have done 3d printing, it is finicky as hell and tends to go wrong with shocking frequency. The humidity in Florida also tends to ruin filament really quickly, and I have yet to find a reliable way to dehydrate it. Sometimes it seems like I've made more repairs than prints.
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  10. Is it possible for a group to split away from an ancestral colonial power and become indigenous? What would that look like? I thought for a while that the Voortrekkers were somewhat close to that before the Brits rounded them up into concentration camps, but I reread the history and am now thinking it is much more difficult to make that argument.
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  11. I excelled academically. But even though I learned to master the art of performative learning, it has had no utility in life; the knowledge has been occasionally useful, but the method by which it is taught and assessed is irrelevant. Learning how to do well in school is maladaptive for real life. In my industry, nobody even cares if you graduated highschool -- all that matters is that you can do the work, and the best programmers are almost always self-taught.
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  12. I live in SWFL. We have one mountain here in the flat swamplands, and it is made entirely of garbage -- a giant pile of trash that is thrice as tall as the pine trees. It has grown to staggering proportions in the last decade, from barely noticeable to the most noticeable geographical feature of the area.
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  13. "Get rid of industrial beef farming" makes sense, but don't exterminate cows. Cows are great animals that can exist harmoniously in certain ecosystems.
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  14. On the one hand, money is destructive to community. On the other, it allows increased mobility for individuals. I don't personally know any dentists or root canal specialists, so the only ways to get dental treatment would be with money or some form of collateralized credit. Basics can be covered by non-money economies, but technological improvement seems to be best served by monetary economies. That being said, our current monetary system sucks -- I don't really want government debt to form the basis of my monetary savings since they print it with reckless abandon, but this is where we are at the moment. Bitcoin is a decent tool for preserving oneself and one's family through extreme fiat debasement, but I think that the future will be served with a decentralized, p2p credit system similar to the Lightning Network but without using 100% collateral backing.
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  15. Voluntarist library economy sounds like a good experiment. Easiest structure to get going, at least in America, would probably be to maintain a record of the donor as the primary owner and the moderator who decides who gets to use the item in case several request it simultaneously.
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  16. The money is all fake, so we can engineer fake GDP growth without further resource exploitation/destruction. In fact, this was done on a global scale during the lockdowns. The problem with doing that was that everyone's income was devalued, so they had to run faster simply to stay in place. The ability of governments and banks to devalue the currency causes distortions that make it even harder to solve economic problems. I think that a liberated monetary system is necessary to enable the rest of these socioeconomic renovations.
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  17. For context, I spent about 10 hours pouring over video footage, photos, and court records. Extremely fucked up situation. Naive kid thought he was helping.
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  18. Gift economies sound kind of like credit economies without keeping track of the resultant IOUs.
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  19. The AI safety people call this "high tech, low life".
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