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New comment by pheaded_while9 in "Where the goblins came from"

pheaded_while9 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:02:40 +0000

Where you are wrong is about controlling values. Axioms, incentives, and rhetorical framing are not "organic" in that they happen without a controlling force. See Prussian education, Rockefeller medicine, and your good ol' idiot box.

New comment by pheaded_while9 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

pheaded_while9 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:19:10 +0000

Yes, the social darwinist approach inevitably lead to eugenical thinking and the human meat grinder that follows. We, as being with the capacity to understand harmful v. non-harmful behaviour, have a consequence to harmful behaviour, collectively: human suffering and the suppression of freedom.

New comment by pheaded_while9 in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

pheaded_while9 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:51:43 +0000

The violence of the state makes the market not "free." Unless you want to abstract all the way out: the planet is and always has been run through violent coercion by psycopaths, and, as exampled by reality, they are "free" to do so.

But in the sense they mean, the violence of the state precludes a free market. For the record, I do not believe in the validity of money, coercion, usury, violence.