jbboehr

A slightly more charitable interpretation might be: sharing useful information creates the possibility of reciprocity.

For starters, they named themselves after a murderous left-wing terrorist organization:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobins

> the most influential political club during the French Revolution of 1789. The period of its political ascendancy includes the Reign of Terror, during which well over 10,000 people were put on trial and executed in France, many for "political crimes".

This is a pretty terrible misrepresentation of original sin. I see you managed to copy it straight out of the Wikipedia page and completely ignore the sentence before it:

> In Christian theology, original sin is the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which they inherit from the the Fall of Adam and Eve. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin

> Green Revolution techniques also heavily rely on agricultural machinery and chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and defoliants; which, as of 2014, are derived from crude oil, making agriculture increasingly reliant on crude oil extraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

I don't think you are using standard definitions.

> A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war

> Total war is a type of warfare that mobilizes the totality of national resources to sustain war production, blurring the line between military and civilian activities and legitimate attacks on civilian targets as part of a war without restriction as to the combatants, territory or objectives involved. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

It does so happen that the two world wars were also total wars.

I bought a knife a while back and, unfortunately, found out that it is really sharp. It could probably cut through flesh like butter.

Or run over by a van.

IDK, man, the '70s sounded pretty wild: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

Supposedly: https://books.google.com/books/about/?id=s1pLvAEACAAJ

A better primer: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy...

Reminds me of this classic: https://x.com/pickover/status/1536108795901972480

I assume you're thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

I am extremely out of the loop, but I believe until somewhat recently it still used nix-daemon and the corresponding drv format, but it may have since been rewritten.

> imagine we create some sort of virtual device that one plugs in and it just basically gives you endless pleasure.

There is a term for this concept: wireheading[0][1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction) [1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/wireheading

I'm sorry, but I don't consider in the bottom half of deaths per capita "objectively atrocious," merely "fairly bad."

Have you considered improving the precision of your vocabulary?

> the objectively atrocious driving record of Americans

Well, ackshually, the US doesn't look that bad, according to this chart [0].

The US is #107 of 191 for deaths per capita and #5 of 25 for deaths per mile driven.

However, there are only 25 countries on that chart with data for deaths per mile driven.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

Sounds like it's probably the Consumer Assistance Program Vehicle Retirement [0] .

[0]: https://www.bar.ca.gov/consumer/consumer-assistance-program/...

> "what I have is so valuable that other people want to take it!"

While I do agree this may apply somewhat to the original topic, your dig at suburbanites seems like a mischaracterization. Perhaps the upper/upper-middle classes feel this way. I would expect most other folks are primarily worried about being murdered during the event.